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About the Role
We are seeking a Schemes Portfolio Underwriting Manager to shape underwriting appetite and build a profitable, balanced portfolio aligned with our strategy. You will act as a subject matter expert in property and casualty lines, guiding teams in high-quality decision-making, managing risk, and ensuring compliance and governance across third-party policy wordings.
Responsibilities
- Communicate, embed, and champion effective strategies, methodologies, and behaviors across the underwriting community.
- Set high standards and support the growth and development of portfolio analysts and underwriters.
- Design, implement, and lead robust underwriting, portfolio, and product oversight frameworks.
- Ensure strong underwriting discipline and refine acceptance criteria to drive continuous improvement.
- Build and maintain relationships with key partners to deliver positive outcomes.
- Support the negotiation of new and existing delegated underwriting arrangements.
- Work with a diverse mix of niche trades and risks.
Requirements
- Experience in portfolio management and underwriting within personal lines or commercial markets.
- Strong authority and technical underwriting expertise in property, casualty, or broader commercial lines.
- Experience reviewing policy wordings and contributing to underwriting guides.
- Understanding of delegated underwriting arrangements.
- Commercial, market, financial risk, and regulatory awareness.
- Strong portfolio management skills.
- Effective leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management experience.
- Excellent relationship-building, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Experience managing or delivering through a diverse stakeholder network.
- Advanced knowledge of commercial lines products.
- Understanding of portfolio financial dynamics such as expense allocation and return on capital.
Skills
- Portfolio management
- Technical underwriting
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Leadership
- Financial analysis
Location
- London
- Croydon
- Remote
Work Type
- Part-time
- Full-time
- Job-share
- Hybrid
Benefits
- 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme
- Annual company bonus
- Private medical insurance
- Option to buy or sell holiday days
About the Company
- Zurich is a global insurance company with over 65,000 employees.
- Focused on sustainable impact, employee wellbeing, and diverse expertise.
- Committed to inclusion with various Employee Resource Groups.
- Active in community support through the Zurich Community Trust.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
- We provide reasonable adjustments and practical support for candidates during the interview process.