Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: London
Job ref: 203699

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.

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ABOUT THE ROLE

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Team Underwriting Manager to join our Real Estate team in our London office.
This is a hybrid role combining hands-on underwriting with people management. You’ll spend part of your time acting as a senior underwriter, managing your renewal book, developing and maintaining broker relationships, and securing new business, as well as line managing a small team of underwriting assistants, managing operational tasks and supporting the wider Real Estate team.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Develop, negotiate, and profitably underwrite new / existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
• Manage individual performance of direct reports
• Provide support to the Operations Manager and deputise as required
• Set and monitor team and individual service targets on an annual, weekly and daily basis to maximise team performance and meet objectives
• Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business in line with company policy