Construction Underwriter (Manchester)
- Recruiter
- Allianz Insurance
- Location
- Lancashire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 29 May 2019
- Closes
- 26 Jun 2019
- Sectors
- Construction & Skilled Trades
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Here at Allianz UK, everyone brings their own expertise and enthusiasm to work, to enable customers to make the right insurance decisions to meet their needs. We're passionate about helping our customers and employees move on and up in life and business.
We nurture and invest in talent to ensure that great people build great careers with us. There's a variety of different career opportunities which enable people to fulfil their potential and we provide an award-winning range of training, recognised in 2015 by Investors in People (IIP) with a Gold level accreditation. Other prestigious industry awards we have won include General Insurer of the Decade at the British Insurance Awards 2014.
Role Overview:
This is an exciting opportunity to join our newly formed expert led Allianz Construction team. As an integral member of the Regional team your focus will be on profitable growth and technical excellence in building a World class, multi-niche Insurance & Engineering related service.
You will be a member of the Construction Existing Business Expert Team focussing on Casualty/Liability. Experience in writing Casualty Construction risks would be advantageous, but we would equally welcome applications from those with experience in underwriting other Commercial Property and Casualty/Liability risks, and would provide support and training to help you transfer these skills to the Construction product.
You will proactively build long-term, sustainable business relationships in order to engender customer loyalty and achieve profitable growth in line with our ambition. Demonstrating consistently high standards of behaviour across all elements of the role, you will assist in supporting the national strategic objectives within the Region.
You will display excellent customer service skills and strong compliance ethics to meet FCA requirements.
Skills & Experience:
* Strong technical underwriting skills with a proven track record of operating within an established Casualty authority (internal only - Level D ideally working towards Level C.) Experience in writing Casualty Construction risks will be advantageous, but is not essential.
* Experience in the commercial market and excellent trading skills.
* Track record as a confident negotiator.
* DIP CII or progression towards.
* Construction market/product awareness.
Key Competencies
* Highly customer focused with ability to build broker relationships.
* Good influencing and negotiation skills.
* Data analysis skills and ability to make recommendations and decisions.
* Highly achievement orientated.
* Strong capability for team working.
* Strong collaboration skills.
* Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative
* Strong trading skills
Additional Information:
At Allianz, we welcome applications from everyone, regardless of your background or needs. If you need assistance with making your application please contact us at
Please be aware that we will require satisfactory pre-employment evidence to include DBS, Financial Probity and Fraud checks, before you can commence employment with us.