Construction Underwriter - New Business

22120 | Underwriting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
This is an exciting opportunity to join our expert led Allianz Construction New Business Team.
We are looking for a self-motivated and talented individual to join our successful Northern New Business team. Your focus will be on profitable growth, retention and technical excellence in building a World class, multi-niche Insurance & Engineering related service. With ambitious growth targets for 2023 and beyond you will be a key team player helping us to reach our goals.
You will proactively build long-term, sustainable business relationships in order to engender customer loyalty and achieve profitable growth in line with our ambition. Demonstrating consistently high standards of behaviour across all elements of the role, you will assist in supporting the national strategic objectives within the Region.
Job duties:

• On a daily basis, you'll ensure customer satisfaction by building rapport and provide excellent service to external and internal customers and in the long term, ensure customer new business growth and retention you will:
• Build strong relationships with brokers, including attending virtual & face-to face meetings, negotiating effectively, and providing excellent customer service at all times
• Handle general customers' queries via the telephone and in writing within agreed service standards.
• Underwrite new business including analysis and compilation of data for referral.
• Negotiate within authority and referring where appropriate to maximise customer growth including persuading, influencing and convincing customers of the benefits of an opposed course of action.
• Calculate, negotiate and invite new business terms in line with external and internal deadlines. Anticipate likely objections and build effective responses
• Work as part of a close-knit high performing team
• Support the wider teams by being proactive, enthusiastic and by challenging yourself to go out of your comfort zone.
• Provide suggestions to continuously improve the business in an ever-changing environment

Flexible Working Here at Allianz we believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity and you to thrive.
Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.
This role will involve working from home combined with time in our Manchester OR Glasgow office two days per week.
Skills and experience: You will be a member of the Construction New Business Expert Team focusing on underwriting Construction risks to ensure Customer business growth and retention. Experience in Casualty Construction, CAR, EAR, Contractors Plant, Electronics and Machinery Breakdown would be preferred but we would equally welcome applications from those with experience in underwriting other Commercial risks and would provide support and training to help you transfer these skills to the Construction product.
You will display excellent customer service skills and strong compliance ethics to meet FCA requirements.

• Passion about your development
• Taking initiative and being proactive within a team
• Excellent communication skills
• Good decision-making skills
• A positive “can do attitude”
• Commitment to undertaking and progressing towards CII qualifications
• To demonstrate Allianz’s day to day values of being responsible, caring, excellent and connected and demonstrating this in day to day behaviour

About Us In the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 8,000 people up and down the country. The company’s Head Office is situated in Guildford, Surrey, plus we have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.
We offer commercial insurance with a full range of products for sole traders, right up to large commercial organisations. We also provide a range of personal insurances including, home and motor, musical, legal expenses insurance and cover for pets and horses .
We're a global company, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture.
Our Benefits Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from – including: retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• 22+ Days holiday (depending on length of experience in industry) & 1 addition for birthday plus bank holidays
• Competitive Annual Salary – reviewed annually
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Annual company & performance-based bonus (6%)
• Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
• Flexible working arrangements available
• Professional mental health support for all employees
• Health and Wellbeing
• We can offer fulltime and part time hours
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Access to Learning and Development opportunities such as LinkedIn Learning and our mentoring scheme
• Excellent training and development opportunities

Growing your career with Allianz We'll provide you with the tools to adapt and change with us, so you can grow your career, while building the skills needed for whatever the future brings.
Inclusion & Diversity We believe that having a strong focus on Inclusion and Diversity enables us to better understand the customers we serve and the people across our teams. We recognise that people work in different ways and we value alternative viewpoints, celebrate individuality and foster a culture where everyone can bring their best self to work and feel a sense of belonging. It’s really important to us that we create a diverse workforce and we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments and support to all applicants with a disability and we interview every applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact us at hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk to let us know if you have a disability and to discuss how we can support you throughout the application process.
Join us - Let’s Care For Tomorrow.
Job Level: Professional Location: Manchester, ENG, GB, M60 3YE

Glasgow, SCT, GB, G2 5UT

Available until: 19/02/2023 Area of Expertise: Underwriting Unit: Allianz UK Employing Entity: Allianz Management Services Ltd Job Type: Full-Time Remote Job: Hybrid working Employment Type: Permanent ID: 22120