Do you an underwriting background and excellent broker relationship management skills?
Come and join our National Markets UK Broker team here at Markel as a Large Client Lead Underwriter
What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
Join us and play your part in something special!
The opportunity:
We arrange our business into five channels, with the NMUK Broker Channel the largest and fastest growing of all our UK business units. Our broker engagement and subsequently pipeline and new business volumes have increased exponentially. This exciting opportunity is based within the renewals department and will play a pivotal part in our ambitious growth targets out to 2030, developing our proposition with a view of increasing our market presence and share with our key clients and broker partners.
This exciting, brand-new opportunity is for a Large Client Lead Underwriter to join our NMUK Broker team across either our Leeds or Manchester offices with UK travel to our broker partners. The large client underwriting lead will enhance the experience of large clients and brokers, focusing on retention and developing strategies to renew high-value accounts. Success in this role is measured by improved retention rates for clients over £100k.
The role will be leading and developing our large client renewals and retentions proposition across £100k+ policies across our care, professional liability, life science and construction sectors.
What you’ll be doing:
Work closely with the Head of Renewals, Distribution team & Senior Underwriters to agree strategies to effectively renew large clients
Ensure that full proposition is utilised and communicated to brokers and clients to maximise our niche expertise and place in the market
Work in tandem with the Broker Distribution Senior Leadership Team to ensure alignment and collaboration and agree key brokers to target and visit
Oversight of all large cases, agreeing renewal strategy with key partners, and being the face of Markel to the customer
Direct ownership of agreed key cases
Market facing role to demonstrate the breadth of our appetite and offering
Ownership of renewal targets for large cases
Identify new opportunities and bring these to life – cross selling where appropriate
Develop a business plan outlining your focus areas and identified opportunities
Work internally with peers to positively enhance our proposition and underwriting approach to large clients
Work with counterpart in new business team to ensure consistency in offering and approach, and protection of our existing book whilst actively growing new business
Support Underwriter development with mentoring and training
Ensure the highest standards of customer service are maintained and continually enhanced
Uphold professional standards and practices, ensuring continuous improvement
Our must haves:
Have a proven track record in large case Underwriting, with experience in Broker/Commercial Insurance
Able to demonstrate effective management of corporate clients and proposition development
Be a self-motivated individual and have a desire to build a market leading business
Be a creditable and engaging representative of Markel
Have effective communication skills
Demonstrate leadership skills
Collaborative nature, capable of working in sync with the Broker Channel Exec and leadership group
Who we are:
Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
What’s in it for you:
A great starting salary plus generous bonus scheme & strong benefits package…
25 days paid holiday (pro rata) plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave
Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we can provide the support needed to do just that!
What we hope you’ll do next:
Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.
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