• Job Description

  Req#: R-140878

  Mid Market Senior Portfolio Underwriter

  An excellent opportunity to lead the Underwriting and portfolio management of our Regional Mid-Market business.

  This role would suit a technically strong, commercially minded individual who is looking to deliver excellent customer outcomes and support the continued growth of the business through exploiting our underwriting appetite, active portfolio management, underpinned and driven by a risk aware culture.

  You will be responsible for delivering the financial plan outcomes through underwriting, pricing, underwriting quality, and portfolio management leadership for your aligned class of business.

  A bit about the job:

  In this role you will lead our Mid-Market underwriting approach (focussed either on commercial Motor or Property), to deliver enhanced performance and improved customer outcomes as well as driving portfolio mix and identifying areas/opportunities for growth.

  You will achieve this through robust performance management, market pricing, rating and strong Underwriting principals alongside shaping and informing commercial decisions on Profit and Loss of the business based upon your deep insight of the business. You will work alongside claims, pricing, actuarial, finance and the data science teams who support Mid-Market and actively engage with the regional underwriting teams. Focussed on delivering for our customers and Brokers, working as part of a small team of technical and portfolio management experts focussed on optimising the portfolio and exploiting our underwriting strategy within Regional Mid-Market. You will provide strategic portfolio and underwriting direction and support the development of our underwriting capability.

  Skills and experience we’re looking for:

  • Good experience of portfolio management & how to enable business growth through technical underwriting with a commercial focus

  • An ability to deliver solutions to complex issues and implement underwriting strategies in an operationally effective manner alongside an ability to think strategically and assess the impact of changing risks over the medium term

  • An effective communicator and coach able to influence senior stakeholders both internally and externally

  • Technically strong, with a strong understanding of Mid-Market and the issues and challenges facing our customers

  • Adaptable and versatile with an ability to convey and convert complex data and strategies simply into the underwriting teams

  What you’ll get for this role:

  Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

  • Starting salary Competitive (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

  • Bonus opportunity – 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

  • Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

  • 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

  • Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

  • Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

  • Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

  • Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

  • Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

  • We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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  Aviva is for everyone:

  We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

  Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

  We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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  We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

  We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Klaudia Kmita-Adegboro a call on 07553728537 or send an email to Klaudia.kmita-adegboro@aviva.com .

• About the company

  We’re here to protect our 33 million customers from life’s unexpected twists and turns – freeing them from fear of uncertainty. We are one of only a few insurance companies in the world that can provide customers with life, general and health insurance, and asset management in one place – a composite insurer. And we have a unique competitive advantage. Whether we’re protecting them from everyday risks or helping them to save for the future, we put customers at the heart of all we do – creating a bright and sustainable future for our customers, employees and our communities.

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