Senior Portfolio Underwriter – Marine Leisure

Benefact Group

  • Gloucester
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to FridayDuration: Fixed-term contract (12 months initially)Location: Gloucester (hybrid)Job ref: 204081About the roleEcclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Senior Portfolio Underwriter (Marine Leisure) to join our Gloucester office.This is a brand new role to help Ecclesiastical grow into the Marine Leisure sector. You will be responsible for growing and managing a portfolio underwritten via delegated authority and you’ll manage the external MGA relationship too.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
  • Building our Marine Leisure proposition, identifying opportunities and risks
  • Managing and leading a Marine Leisure portfolio underwritten via delegated authority, including providing detailed portfolio analysis
  • Coaching colleagues to understand the specifics of the sector
  • Managing and overseeing an MGA relationship
  • Driving data-led insights to inform underwriting strategy and decision-making
What you'll need to have
  • Experience and expertise in the Marine Leisure sector
  • ACII Qualified or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale
  • Proven portfolio management experience or underwriting within a delegated authority/MGA environment
  • Good relationship and stakeholder management skills
  • Resilience to help establish the new sector in a specialist insurer
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 7.5% and 30%
  • 28 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"I'm really excited about this role and how it will help us accelerate our growth in Schemes and MGAs and create capability in a brand new sector for our business."About usEcclesiastical 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

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