Senior Commercial Underwriter

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location:  London

Job ref: 204125

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance , who are proudly part of  Benefact Group , are looking for a Senior Commercial Underwriter to join our  London  office.

Are you ready to take your underwriting expertise to the next level? We’re looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking professional to underwrite and trade with confidence, coach with purpose, and drive excellence .

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Manage your own caseload of some of the most iconic and challenging risks in the UK, while acting as a go-to expert for the team, offering coaching, training, and guidance
• Underwrite existing business, and occasionally new business, profitably within your authority, utilising some of the largest capacity in the London market, negotiating profitable deals and building strong broker relationships
• Support and develop less experienced colleagues, helping them grow into confident, capable professionals
• Talking to and proactively meeting the most influential brokers in the South East on a regular basis building strong long-term customer relationships
• Use audit insights and our range of training support to improve own performance and capabilities and uplift team standards through positive feedback and training

What you'll need to have

• Strong property and casualty underwriting skills, with a willingness to expand your technical knowledge further, work within your underwriting authority, take ownership of your professional development and that of less experienced members of the team
• Confident communicator with a natural ability to build strong broker relationships
• The ability to plan and prioritise your work to meet SLAs and exceed customer expectations with outstanding service
• A willingness to speak up and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Hybrid working
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager

"This isn’t just another underwriting job - it’s a chance to lead, influence, and evolve in a collaborative environment that values your voice and vision. You’ll be part of a successful team that’s passionate about growth, commercial awareness, broker engagement, and delivering real value to clients."

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26