Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) have an exciting opportunity for an Underwriter - Innovation to join our market-leading Innovation team, helping to shape the future of insurance. This role isn’t just about underwriting, it’s about challenging convention, building new products, and exploring emerging risks across areas such as AI, IoT, parametric solutions, crypto, and carbon markets. As such, although we need someone who understands London market insurance, we don’t require underwriting experience. The Role Reporting to the Divisional Head of Innovation and Portfolio Underwriting, you will: Develop and bring to market new insurance products across emerging and specialty lines Collaborate with brokers, coverholders, and innovation partners across the Lloyd’s ecosystem Help shape underwriting strategy and drive portfolio performance Build your market profile and contribute to thought leadership in a fast-evolving space Over time, you’ll take on ownership of innovation portfolio performance and P&L. What We’re Looking For Demonstrable experience in the Lloyd’s market Strong understanding of insurance fundamentals (underwriting experience not essential) A curious, entrepreneurial mindset with the confidence to challenge the status quo Resilience, creativity, and strong stakeholder management skills Why Join? Work at the cutting edge of insurance innovation Build products that don’t yet exist Join a collaborative, forward-thinking team where mindset matters more than background Opportunity to grow into a leadership role in a niche, high-impact area The successful candidate will be welcomed into the TMK family to help us further our purpose of enabling our clients to fulfil their ambitions whilst benefiting society and our people. We are committed to ensuring a safe, open, inclusive and empowering environment in which all of our people can thrive. All employees have the opportunity to join one or a number of inclusion network groups or take part in CSR and charitable activities. TMK is signed up to the Disability Confident Employer Scheme and we also accommodate flexible working, subject to the TMK flexible working policy. As an underwriting firm with over 140 years’ experience of protecting clients from changing risks we put our confidence in the ability and talent of our people. We aim to be a ‘Good Company’ and this means being a great and inclusive company to do business with and being a great place to work. Our culture is founded on our core values of empowerment, inclusion, excellence, integrity, teamwork and innovation. We seek to recruit the best talent by endeavouring to reach diverse talent pools, offering dynamic working arrangements and investing in development. To make your experience as comfortable as possible, 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, please be reassured that we will do all that we can to ensure that your specific needs are met. Please reach out to jay.lewis@tokiomarinekiln.com in confidence, to discuss any specific assistance or requirements that you have. If you encounter difficulties submitting your application, please email recruitment@tokiomarinekiln.com. If you are interested in this vacancy and would like to apply or find out more, please follow the links to apply. You can also share this vacancy with your network using a number of social media platforms. We pride ourselves on our high-calibre workforce and we recognise that the success of our business is dependent on our ability to attract, develop, motivate and retain a diverse and talented group of people.
