Travel Underwriter (Part-Time, Job-Share and Full-Time)

☞ Zurich Gruppe Deutschland

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Update day: 04-06-2024

Location: London

Category: Insurance Restaurant / Hotel / Tourism Part-time

Industry: Insurance

Job type: Full-time, Part-time

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Travel Underwriter (Part-Time, Job-Share and Full-Time)

Location: We’re flexible! Occasional travel to our London and Fareham will be required

The opportunity:

Following exciting growth in the Personal Lines Travel Underwriting book of business, we are looking for a Travel Underwriter to join our team on a permanent basis. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in our Personal Lines Travel Underwriting. If you’re an experienced Underwriter and looking for a new challenge or experience, this role could be for you!

This role is available part-time, job-share or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

Key Responsibilities:

As the Travel Underwriter, you will contribute towards the following:

  • The assessment and underwriting of new and renewal business within underwriting appetite and agreed underwriting authority and guidelines (the business is primarily personal lines travel and includes car hire excess insurance {CDW} and individual accident & health programmes). Business is written on a direct basis, via aggregators, Delegated Authority Agreements and MGA’s.
  • Supporting the business with the response to tenders where appropriate.
  • Implementation of agreed underwriting and/or rating changes for all distribution channels.
  • Monitoring the performance of the business in conjunction with the travel portfolio analyst and making appropriate underwriting and pricing recommendations to manage performance.
  • Responding to case level underwriting referrals both internally and externally as appropriate
  • Researching target markets and assisting with Product Oversight and Governance.
  • Development of new and updating of existing policy wordings
  • New proposition development
  • Assisting with implementation of new programs and projects and as required from time to time.

Your skills and experience:

  • Good knowledge and experience of underwriting principles.
  • Understanding of the personal line’s insurance market.
  • Understanding of current legal and regulatory requirements relevant to underwriting.
  • Awareness of the financial dynamics of a personal line’s portfolio (i.e. expense allocation, return on capital requirements and the like)
  • Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
  • Effective interpersonal, negotiations and customer relationship skills.
  • Ability to produce innovative solutions.
  • Ability to work under pressure, problem solving and analysis.
  • Superior verbal & written communication skills.
  • Proactive and able to manage a diverse workload.

The reward:

As well as a competitive salary we also offer an excellent lifestyle benefits package which includes:

  • 12% company pension contribution (employee contribution optional)
  • 25 days holiday plus an additional 3 volunteering days
  • Annual company bonuses
  • Contribution to private Healthcare cover
  • Discounted technology offers
  • Virtual GP appointments
  • Discounted gym membership,
  • Free flu jab
  • Discounted gadget insurance

At Zurich we will consider requests for flexible working on hiring. Many of our employees work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

Who we are:

With about 55,000 employees serving customers in more than 170 countries we aspire to become the best global insurer as measured by our shareholders, customers and employees. If you’re interested in working in a dynamic and challenging environment for a company that recognises and rewards your creativity, initiatives and contributions - then Zurich could be just the place for you. The success of our business is built on the contributions of our highly talented employees - people who work every day to position us at the forefront of the insurance industry. We therefore look to hire great people and we encourage those people to give their best.

You’ll feel the support of being part of a strong and stable company. A long-standing player in the insurance industry, we make every effort to address the career development needs and plans of our employees to ensure their success in the future.

Further information:

At Zurich we are proud of our culture. We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion. We want you to bring your whole self to work we have a diverse mix of customers and we want our employee base to reflect that.
Our diversity and inclusion initiatives are creating an environment where everyone feels welcome regardless of protected characteristics.

With the above in mind we accept applications from everyone regardless of your background, beliefs or culture however we especially welcome applications from women, people from ethnic minorities, people with a disability and people who are LGBT+ as these groups are currently under-represented in our organisation.

We are committed to continuous improvement and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities. Zurich is passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity through the Zurich Community Trust.

We have won numerous awards for our work on Diversity and Inclusion. We are also proud to be nominated for the 2020 Insurance Times award for Diversity and Inclusion. You can read about our awards on our website.
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Deadline: 19-07-2024

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