Senior Mid Market P&C New Business Underwriter

Overview

As a New Business Senior Underwriter in Property and Casualty at AXA Glasgow, you steer profitability and lead underwriting quality for Mid-Market and Mid-Corporate risks. You collaborate with Trading Underwriters and brokers to craft competitive, well-structured solutions. You’ll own large-case processes, grow a qualified pipeline, and ensure alignment with AXA’s controls and service standards. This role offers impact-through-market leadership, broker relations, and cross-team collaboration in a growth-focused branch.

Responsibilities

• Represent AXA in presenting propositions for larger Mid-Market and Mid-Corporate risks based on industry knowledge and underwriting expertise
• Negotiate coverage, wordings and pricing with Trading Underwriters to differentiate AXA and meet client needs
• Proactively develop and manage a robust pipeline of qualified growth opportunities via client and broker relationships
• Lead and embed the large case management process for new business
• Build collaborative broker relationships regionally and own generation and placement of profitable self-sourced business
• Underwrite profitable new business in line with AXA controls and act as a referral point for new business
• Develop and maintain a quality distribution strategy and communication plan with influential brokers to meet financial KPIs

Key requirements

• Technical underwriting expertise in a commercial insurance environment
• Sound understanding of the Scottish insurance market
• Experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios within a Commercial environment
• Coaching and development skills in a team setting with a track record of delivering results
• Strong trading capability – commercial awareness, negotiation skills and ability to build broker relationships
• Pragmatic decision making, analytical and numerical reasoning skills
• Excellent risk assessment and risk management skills
• Progress towards Dip CII qualification is desirable
• Eligible and authorized to work in the United Kingdom

• coaching and development
• team collaboration
• negotiation
• technical underwriting
• risk assessment
• risk management

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