Are you an experienced underwriting professional passionate about automotive specialty insurance? Join us as a Senior Underwriter, where you’ll lead the underwriting of new business and renewals within automotive specialty lines—including extended warranties, tyre and battery warranties, as well as GAP and RTI insurance.
In this pivotal role, you will provide technical leadership and expertise to your team, acting as the go-to expert for the Sub Line of Business (LoB) Automotive Waranty / Specialty segment. You’ll coordinate and manage quotations globally, driving excellence and innovation across all markets
What You’ll Do
- Lead and coordinate underwriting and quotations for automotive specialty lines on a global scale, with a particular focus on Automotive Warranty and the UK market.
- Deliver best-in-class technical underwriting and thorough risk assessment to ensure sustainable and profitable growth.
- Support governance initiatives alongside the Manager and Head of Product & Underwriting.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management & Innovation, Network Management, and the Technical Product Team to align strategies and initiatives.
- Underwrite complex accounts across global business units, promoting business expansion through effective risk assessment.
- Ensure strict adherence to underwriting guidelines and authorities.
- Partner with sales teams and internal stakeholders, supporting negotiations and contributing to pricing, actuarial, and underwriting workstreams
What You Bring
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in underwriting or actuarial roles related to the automotive sector.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in working with data-driven insights.
- Deep knowledge of insurance principles and the automotive warranty market.
- Business-level fluency in English.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, actuarial, mathematics, engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience steering projects successfully.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile, and dynamic environment.
- Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders with confidence and professionalism.
- Passion for/skills in Data Analytics and Data Cleaning to ensure accurate insights and efficient data utilization
What we offer
Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.
We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.
64163 | Underwriting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
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