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About the Role
Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) seeks an experienced and influential Head of Underwriting Management to lead the Underwriting Management Team (UMT). This leadership role oversees TMK's underwriting management framework, ensuring a strong risk and control environment while enabling profitable growth. The position is central to the underwriting function, offering expert challenge, governance, and support to underwriting teams, and shaping strategic decisions. Reporting to the Underwriting Operations Officer, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders across various departments and maintain relationships with Lloyd's, driving underwriting excellence and adapting to market developments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Underwriting Management Team, providing expert guidance, challenge and support across the underwriting function.
- Maintain and enhance TMK's underwriting governance and control framework, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements and market best practice.
- Partner with underwriting leadership to support strategic decision-making, business planning and performance management.
- Oversee underwriting oversight activities, including peer review processes, pricing governance and adherence to underwriting standards.
- Build and maintain key relationships with Lloyd's, regulators and internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted adviser on underwriting governance and performance.
- Drive continuous improvement across underwriting operations, reporting, controls and data quality to support profitable growth and operational excellence.
- Lead strategic projects and initiatives that strengthen underwriting discipline, efficiency and consistency across the business.
Requirements
- Extensive Lloyd's or London Market experience, combined with strong leadership capability and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across a complex business environment.
- Extensive underwriting, underwriting management or performance management experience within the Lloyd's and/or London Market.
- Demonstrable experience operating at a senior leadership level within a Lloyd's environment.
- Proven people management experience, with a track record of coaching and developing high-performing teams.
- Strong understanding of underwriting operations, governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
- Experience designing, implementing and enhancing underwriting control frameworks and Lloyd's minimum standards.
- Knowledge of underwriting systems, reporting and management information.
- Excellent strategic thinking skills with the ability to balance risk, opportunity and commercial objectives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to build effective relationships across underwriting and corporate functions.
Skills
- Leadership
- Underwriting management
- Risk and control environment
- Strategic decision-making
- Governance
- Stakeholder management
- Regulatory compliance
- Market analysis
- Team development
- Performance management
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Presentation
- Collaboration
Location
- London Market
Work Type
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Senior leadership level
- Head of Underwriting Management
Education Level
- ACII qualification or equivalent professional qualification
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the future direction of TMK's underwriting management framework
- Influence strategic decision-making
- Drive meaningful improvements across underwriting governance, performance and controls
- Support profitable growth
- Inclusion network groups
- CSR and charitable activities
- Disability Confident Employer Scheme
About the Company
- TMK places underwriting excellence at the centre of its strategy, working alongside highly respected underwriting leaders and subject matter experts across the London Market.
- TMK has over 140 years’ experience of protecting clients from changing risks.
- TMK aims to be a ‘Good Company’ and a great and inclusive company to do business with and a great place to work.
- TMK's culture is founded on its core values of empowerment, inclusion, excellence, integrity, teamwork and innovation.
- TMK seeks to recruit the best talent by endeavouring to reach diverse talent pools, offering dynamic working arrangements and investing in development.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to ensuring a safe, open, inclusive and empowering environment in which all of our people can thrive.
- We seek to recruit the best talent by endeavouring to reach diverse talent pools, offering dynamic working arrangements and investing in development.
- Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments or additional assistance during your application process.
- At Tokio Marine Kiln we are here to support you and will work with you to understand your requirements and identify any reasonable adjustments that may be appropriate.