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Head of Underwriting

Job Posted: 4 hours ago

Salary: £ 80,000 - 90,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Head of Underwriting

Stockport

£80,000-£90,000 DOE plus benefits 

MPJ Recruitment are proud to be working with an award winning businesses who specialise in providing reliable legal expenses insurance tailored at meeting the needs of brokers, MGAs, intermediaries, and their clients. Regulated by both the PRA and FCA, they offer Before-the-Event (BTE) and After-the-Event (ATE) insurance alongside a range of general insurance products designed to deliver real results.

As their Head of Underwriting, you'll play a pivotal role in strengthening their business, ensuring risk management excellence, enhancing efficiency, and inspiring a high-performing underwriting team. This is a strategic senior position where you'll work closely with the Managing Director and Executive team to shape long-term business strategy, drive market position improvement, and ensure exceptional operational integrity.

As the Head of Underwriting, your key responsibilities include:

Crafting and refining the company's underwriting strategy to achieve profitable growth, increased market share, and disciplined risk selection.
Leading the Underwriting Committee, balancing commercial opportunities with rigorous risk governance.
Overseeing portfolio and scheme performance, assessing loss ratios, retention trends, and making key adjustment proposals to support growth.
Enhancing product design, policy wordings, and underwriting guidelines to stay competitive and compliant.
Acting as a key point of contact for regulators, brokers, clients, and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and confidence in account performance.
Spearheading underwriting system improvements, embedding automation to increase efficiency and consistency in decision-making.
Providing technical guidance to internal teams, while forging strong, trustful relationships with brokers and clients.
Championing compliance to meet FCA regulations, industry standards, and internal governance requirements.Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to lead within a collaborative, dynamic, and award-winning organisation. Here's what you can look forward to:

The chance to define strategy, influence growth, and shape the underwriting future of the company.
Working on cutting-edge solutions - championing innovative digital tools and automation to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
An inclusive culture that values employee engagement, professional development, and strong leadership.
Extensive senior leadership exposure, working closely with Managing Directors and stakeholders to define multi-year plans.
Competitive salary, benefits package, and potential incentives linked to company performance.Please click APPLY if you would be interested

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