Travel Underwriter
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Job Location:
Haywards Heath - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Collinson is the global privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.
Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.
We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.
The Role
Reporting to the Travel Underwriting Manager you will take ownership of underwriting performance across a significant travel insurance portfolio. Youll work cross-functionally with pricing actuarial finance commercial and business development teams to drive profitable growth while carefully balancing risk and claims exposure.
This role offers strong visibility across the business and the chance to influence product design pricing strategy and underwriting controls in a dynamic and fast-growing environment.
Key Responsibilities
Manage the net underwriting performance of assigned travel insurance portfolios ensuring profit targets are met
Analyse performance trends and develop ultimate loss ratios for reserving committees
Support the development and enhancement of customer-focused products including policy wording reviews
Work closely with Pricing to ensure robust sales and underwriting performance reporting
Recommend and support product and pricing changes through governance and sign-off forums
Partner with Commercial teams to support key distribution relationships
Contribute underwriting expertise to new business opportunities and RFPs
Ensure compliance with internal governance and FCA regulatory requirements
About You
Minimum 2 years underwriting experience in UK personal lines insurance
Travel insurance and/or European market exposure is advantageous but not essential
Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail
Comfortable managing multiple projects and stakeholders
Experience contributing to pricing product or portfolio performance discussions
Confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills
Intermediate to advanced Excel Word and Adobe skills
Why Apply
Work with a globally recognised brand portfolio
Exposure to large-scale complex underwriting portfolios
Opportunity to influence product innovation and growth strategy
Supportive collaborative and entrepreneurial culture
Excellent long-term career development prospects
Key clients include Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.
Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.
Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2200 global colleagues.
Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.
We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.
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Key Skills
- Loan Processing
- Computer Skills
- Fraud
- Math
- Banking
- Pricing
- Analysis Skills
- Fair Housing Regulations
- Underwriting
- Financial Analysis
- negotiation
- Phone Etiquette
About Company
We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences. Our range of services helps global brand acquire, engage and retain choice-rich customers.© 2023 Collinson International Limited. Registered in England & Wales under registration No. 2577557Registered address : 3 More Lo ... View more
