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Job Location drjobs

Birmingham - UK

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Commercial Underwriter Education and Public Sector Salary is Competitive

Location Flexible across our UK Sites

Over the past 5 years we have achieved significant growth of our Education and Public Sector Business across MidMarket and Speciality Lines. Our ambition over the next 5 years is to continue to grow this part of our account and as part of these ambitions we are recruiting dedicated underwriters into our National Public Sector and Education team.

This is a great job for someone with previous experience of underwriting for the public sector and educational sector or an experienced underwriter who is keen to develop their skills within this area!

A bit about the job:

Working across the full range of public sector education risks from Further Education Higher Education and Private Independent Schools to NHS Trusts and Town Councils you will play a key part in growing and maintain our business within these areas. You will:

  • Ensure that service for new business midterm adjustments (MTAs) and/or renewals are handled swiftly for our brokers virtual

  • Underwriting decisions made may need wider business relationships taken into account (depending on the broker and the size of the account involved)

  • Prioritization of tasks will be key to ensure that efficient service is key to everything they do. Priorities will be agreed amongst the team and supervised by Team Managers

  • Interact with multiple stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely quotes are issued in line with broker expectations.

  • Perform controls to ensure the underwriting risk always stays within tolerance

Skills and experience were looking for:

  • An experienced property and liability underwriter Public Sector and Educational underwriting would be beneficial but not essential

  • The ability to analyse risks and communicate and present effectively to brokers and/or customers

  • Knowledge of complaints process; breach procedures; GDPR and other impacting legislation

  • Strong commercial business acumen to build and deliver business cases

  • Works collaboratively within a large sophisticated organisation and proven leadership and mentoring ability

What youll get for this role:

Our purpose with you today for a better tomorrow is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

  • Competitive salary (depending on location skills experience and qualifications)

  • Bonus opportunity 8 of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Avivas.

  • Generous pension scheme Aviva will contribute up to 14 depending on what you put in.

  • 29 days holiday plus bank holidays and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

  • Make your money go further Up to 40 discount on Aviva products and other retailer discounts

  • Up to 1200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

  • Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carers leave

  • Flexible benefits to suit you including sustainability options such as cycle to work

  • Make a difference be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

  • We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

Aviva is for everyone:

Were inclusive and welcome everyone we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box Even if you dont we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working including part time and job shares.

We flex locations hours and working patterns to suit our customers business and you. Most of our people are smart working spending around 50 of their time in our offices every week combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once youve applied please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability and well interview you.

Wed love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying please give Dylan Wood a call on 0 or send an email to

Employment Type

Full Time

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