Senior Life Underwriter

A major City Insurance Group seeks an experienced Life Underwriter with product knowledge for Life, CI and IP, preferably both Individual and Group products, to underwriting and handle underwriting development services to clients, maintaining risk management. This will be Underwriting large and/ or complex cases referred from clients.

Candidates will have active/recent underwriting authority, be experienced as a senior underwriter for a Life office and/or reinsurer.

• Understand clients and their decision making process for reinsurance, contributing ideas and support to clients and the wider business
• Actively engage in underwriting initiatives and developments with key clients
• Contributing to the overall management of the reinsured portfolio, including underwriting or rules reviews
• Understand, analyse and monitor client underwriting competencies, philosophy and processes to advise on potential improvements and opportunities
• Actively engage in industry meetings
• Underwriting life, critical illness, and income protection products, for Individual Life and Group business, on a daily basis, to agreed levels of quality, authority and service standards
• Contributing ideas and support to the positive development and profile of the underwriting team, and for clients
• Making and maintaining relationships with clients to contribute to excellence in client service