At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we've got them covered. Building on our success, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current broker facing teams with experienced, engaging, and forward-thinking Commercial Underwriters. These roles provide a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.
We're excited to bring to market 2 fantastic opportunities for an Existing and a New Business Underwriter to join AXA Commercial Lines within our highly respected London Commercial team, as we experience an exciting growth trajectory and invest in our workforce of the future.
As a Property and Casualty Trading Underwriter, you’ll help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you’ll be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision support tools on mobile technology to succeed. You’ll be focused on developing and delivering profitable growth, across new or existing business within the key markets.
What you’ll be doing:
- Evaluate and underwrite new and renewal business, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations and internal guidelines.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of the business plan.
- Manage a portfolio of renewals and new business to meet growth and retention targets.
- Monitor and upload underwriting standards, procedures and processes.
- Deliver timely, professional service to customers and intermediaries.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers and internal colleagues to support portfolio performance.
- Effectively promote and deploy AXA’s strategy, product range, propositions and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities.
What’s in it for you:
- We’ll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow: It’s our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That’s why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
- Build a career that’s as dynamic as the market you work in: We’re on a journey of transformation, so we’re investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.
- Shape your career one decision at a time: We’ll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 60% of your week away from home, either at our office location in London, visiting clients or attending industry events.
What you'll bring:
- Keep an open mind: Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
- Stay curious: You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market want and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA’s development opportunities.
- Be a team player: Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.
- Excellent trading capability with a good commercial awareness, negotiation skills and the ability to build strong broker relationships.
- Demonstrable P&C technical underwriting expertise in a composite insurance environment.
- Sound knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements for insurance.
- Cert CII qualification with DIP CII is desirable.
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.
What we offer:
At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:
- Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
- Up to 21 hours volunteering leave per year
- Private health cover
- Wellbeing services & resources
- AXA employee discounts
To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to
[email protected].
Who are we:
AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We’re currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We’re a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.
