Senior Commercial Underwriter

About the Role

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s Large Corporate Insurance Department manage our largest and most complex corporate risks, with total premium spend over £100k. They oversee circa £200 million in GWPI, underwriting Property, Liability and Motor risks to drive sustainable, long-term profitable growth and we’re pleased to share this exciting new opportunity as a Senior Property Underwriter.

In this role, you will manage a portfolio of existing clients and quotations, serving as the lead underwriter and focusing on property covers. You’ll be encouraged to build strong relationships with both new and existing customers. You will review and evaluate insurance risks, proposing and negotiating policy terms for corporate business in line with [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s underwriting principles and standards within your significant delegated underwriting authority.

Your work will ensure fair outcomes and exceptional customer service, aligned with the company’s risk appetite and financial goals. You will build and maintain strong relationships with team members, agents, brokers, and clients, ensuring objectives are met and service levels are maintained.

You’ll train, coach, mentor and guide team members and provide technical support to various stakeholders across the business and support Change to shape the department and it’s processes, looking to continuously improve the efficiency of our operations. You’ll also be responsible for delivering short-term and one off projects and activities. Additionally, you will handle policy cancellations, resolve complaints, and provide agents and brokers with support during client meetings to enhance customer value and uphold [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s reputation.

About You

You’ll be a Commercial Underwriting professional with extensive underwriting experience in Commercial Property risks gained within the UK general insurance market. This could be from an insurer or broker environment. You’ll be a resilient individual and able to demonstrate effective communication skills which will enable you to establish strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business, with the ability and confidence to challenge and influence where necessary. To join our team, you’ll also have:

• Experience of coaching, mentoring and training colleagues
• Confident Communicator with experience of leading and influencing risk decisions
• The ability to make rational and logical decisions in a fast-paced environment
• A collaborative approach and the ability to work well within a team
• A strategic and forward thinking mindset.

Having a CII qualification or working towards would be desirable, however it is not essential and it is something we can support you to achieve should you join our organisation.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary up to £70,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from.

Our ethos - of trust, respect and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.