Product Development Manager

Description

At AXA Commercial, we support our business customers, large and small, by making it easy for them to do business with us in the way that suits them. Whether they insure with us via brokers, directly on the phone or online through comparison sites, we’ve got them covered.

Building on our success and as a direct result of our growing business and expansion, a key initiative for the future of AXA Commercial is enhancing our current teams with experienced, engaging, and forward‑thinking Commercial Underwriters. This role provides a fantastic opportunity for you to build key foundations and shape the narrative that will provide AXA the exposure and scope required for growth.

As a Fleet Commercial Underwriter working in our Birmingham Branch, you will help drive and transform how we partner our broker portfolios, through responsive, flexible, and collaborative relationships. With a strong balance of technical and trading capability, you will be empowered to make decisions, supported by data, insight, and decision‑support tools on mobile technology to succeed.

• We'll equip you with the technical skills for tomorrow: It's our job to support you in becoming an expert who has ownership over their work. We want you to be confident that you can make an impact by helping our customers. We ask ourselves what we can do today that will help us in the future. That's why we offer continuous development to help our colleagues become experts in tomorrow.
• Build a career that's as dynamic as the market you work in: We’re on a journey of transformation, so we’re investing in new technology that enables us to help our people and businesses thrive.
• Shape your career one decision at a time: We’ll support you to progress through the business and are committed to developing talent. We do this with training and tailored development plans. AXA is happy to support you in obtaining the FIT/Cert/Dip CII qualifications.
• At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers. You’ll work at least 60% of your week away from home, at our office location in Birmingham, visiting clients or attending industry events.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we can manage interest effectively. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

• Keep an open mind: Keen to learn and challenge the status quo, able to approach tasks from different perspectives while focusing on helping colleagues and customers.
• Stay curious: You’ll be perceptive of what our customers and the market want, and bring that knowledge into your work, whilst making the most of AXA’s development opportunities.
• Be a team player: Able to use your unique skills and knowledge to collaborate with your colleagues, take accountability and discover new ways of doing things.
• Experience of working in a Fleet underwriting environment, be it with an insurer or a broker, is preferred.
• Technical underwriting expertise.
• Strong trading capability, commercial awareness, and expert negotiation skills.
• Ability to build excellent broker relationships and a sound understanding of the current commercial insurance market.
• Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Developed analytical skills with proven experience of account monitoring and action planning.
• Ability to champion the change agenda, utilising your resilience skills to identify continuous improvement and drive change through to resolution.
• As a pre‑condition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime, which means that in addition to pre‑employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years, with an annual declaration in interim years.

• Competitive annual salary
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