Property & Casualty Underwriter

Overview

As a Property & Casualty Development Underwriter, you will drive profitability by underwriting new and renewal business within authority, while growing a portfolio in collaboration with Brokers. You will sit in a growing MGA’s underwriting team, supporting expansion across mid-market and SME risks and cross-selling opportunities. You’ll work closely with brokers and internal teams to identify opportunities and maintain a high standard of service. This hybrid role combines homeworking with three days in central London, offering development, diverse risk exposure, and a clear path to growth within a collaborative culture.

Pay / Benefits

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• discretionary bonus
• Pension
• life assurance
• health plan
• support for professional qualifications

Responsibilities

• Deliver a high standard of service to Broker partners
• Develop and maintain strong broker relationships to maximise new business and retention opportunities
• Underwrite and manage a portfolio of commercial risks in line with underwriting guidelines, authority levels and risk appetite
• Assess and evaluate risks to ensure profitable underwriting decisions while maintaining regulatory compliance
• Identify cross-selling opportunities across the wider product suite and collaborate with other underwriting teams
• Support the identification and development of scheme opportunities aligned with underwriting appetite
• Maintain ongoing market awareness and undertake continuous professional development
• Achieve personal KPIs while contributing to wider team objectives

Key requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in commercial underwriting, ideally within property & casualty lines
• Experience operating in a development or trading underwriting role
• Strong experience working with Brokers and building trading relationships
• Excellent analytical, negotiation and decision-making skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Commercially focused with an emphasis on profitable growth
• Self-motivated and results driven

• collaboration
• stakeholder management
• negotiation
• underwriting
• risk assessment
• regulatory compliance

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