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About the Role
Lead underwriting delivery, driving strong product performance, technical excellence, and profitable growth. This is a key leadership role focused on developing underwriting capability and ensuring disciplined, high-quality decision-making aligned to strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead, motivate, and develop a team of underwriters to deliver strong results and high engagement.
- Deliver KPI targets across complex cases and portfolios aligned to product strategy.
- Use underwriting authority with a clear understanding of profit and loss impact and portfolio performance.
- Make key commercial decisions to support profitable growth and strengthen distribution relationships.
- Support business development activity in line with distribution segmentation strategy.
- Conduct underwriting inspections, account control, and quality review activity where required.
- Produce and deliver technical training, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.
- Partner with Chief Underwriting Office and Underwriting Enablement teams to design and deliver technical capability frameworks.
- Collaborate with Distribution to support service delivery and performance.
- Represent Allianz in internal and external forums, engaging with key stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proven leadership capability, with experience managing or developing underwriting teams.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business performance and growth objectives.
- Strong underwriting expertise, including policy wordings, clauses, and non-standard cover.
- Ability to assess risk, pricing, and terms, applying risk management principles effectively.
- Understanding of claims drivers and application of mitigation strategies.
- Strong knowledge of underwriting governance, legislation, and regulatory frameworks.
- Ability to interpret KPIs to identify trends and opportunities.
- Understanding of reinsurance principles, including treaty and facultative arrangements.
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of portfolio and account management principles.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Skills
- ACII qualification or equivalent industry experience
- Completion of underwriting academy modules or similar professional development
- Knowledge of project or change delivery within underwriting environments
- Experience contributing to product development or segmentation activity
- Strong track record of delivering against challenging objectives
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage
Location
- London
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Full-Time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Professional
Salary/Compensations
- Pay is dependent on experience, skills and location
Benefits
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
- Flexible working options
- Global career opportunities
- Fantastic career development and training
About the Company
- Allianz is the world's number one insurance brand.
- We are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter.
- We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements.
- Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
- At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching.
- We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.
- If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching.
- We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.
- If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.