Description
We are seeking a Team Leader to join our Magenta Insurance team in Bury St Edmunds.
As a Team Leader, you will lead and manage a team while performing the technical and trading responsibilities of a Senior Property Underwriter. You will deliver agreed service and performance objectives through effective people management, workflow oversight, technical support, and broker relationship management within a wholesale distribution model.
Responsibilities
- Team Leadership & Performance: Set clear team objectives and priorities, conduct regular one-to-ones, manage performance, attendance, and wellbeing matters.
- Service Delivery & Workload Management: Take day-to-day responsibility for telephone service, document issuance, and performance measures.
- Senior Underwriting & Technical Referrals: Assess, negotiate, and underwrite in accordance with documented underwriting authority.
- Communication & Collaboration: Act as the team's operational contact, maintain effective internal stakeholder relationships.
- Trading & Distribution Channel Performance: Agree performance measures, monitor performance, and take improvement action.
Requirements
- Minimum Cert CII; five years' property underwriting experience or three years' non-standard property underwriting experience.
- Established residential property underwriting expertise, including complex risks, technical referrals, authority controls, and clear decision recording.
- Sound understanding of relevant insurance regulation, the responsibilities of a wholesale underwriter in supporting policyholder outcomes.
- Experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating colleagues, with the ability to conduct effective one-to-ones, coach, and support development.
What we offer
A career that you define, a competitive range of rewards and benefits, and a culture that prioritizes people first.