Senior Underwriter - Technology

Senior Underwriter – Middle Market Technology Overview

We are currently hiring for a Senior Underwriter in our Manchester or Birmingham office to drive profitable growth across our Middle Market Technology portfolio while building strong broker relationships and delivering underwriting excellence.

As a Senior Underwriter, you will play a key role in executing our Technology underwriting strategy, assessing complex commercial risks, developing broker relationships and delivering profitable business growth.

Working within delegated authority levels, you will make sound underwriting decisions, negotiate effectively and contribute to the continued success of our Middle Market Technology business.

• New business development:
  Support the Technology underwriting strategy by identifying and securing profitable new business opportunities.
• [ Risk assessment:
  Evaluate complex submissions, analyse financial information and determine risk acceptability in line with underwriting guidelines.
• Pricing and negotiation:
  Develop competitive pricing strategies and negotiate effectively with brokers to achieve profitable outcomes.
• Broker engagement:
  Build and maintain strong broker relationships through regular market engagement and field visits.
• Portfolio management:
  Monitor underwriting performance, provide insight through reporting and support business growth through cross-selling opportunities.

Broker network:
Established relationships within the broker market and a strong understanding of the territory.

Technical expertise:
Strong commercial underwriting knowledge with experience handling complex risks.

Market knowledge:
Good understanding of insurance industry practices, products and relevant regulatory requirements.

Relationship skills:
Excellent communication, stakeholder management and negotiation abilities.

Decision making:
Strong analytical skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and make sound commercial decisions independently.

We are a leading specialist commercial insurer with a long-standing reputation for underwriting excellence, strong broker partnerships and customer-focused solutions.

We invest in our people, support career development and offer the opportunity to work within a collaborative and high-performing underwriting environment.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds

CNA Hardy is a leading specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets.

We offer a highly specialised and comprehensive portfolio of innovative and market leading products.

Coverage is available to businesses of all sizes for domestic, international and global exposures.

We are a leading specialist commercial insurance provider for clients of all sizes with both domestic and international exposures.

Writing across both company and Lloyd's platforms offers our brokers the flexibility to find the best solution for their clients in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

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Our clients trust us because we understand the risks they face.

Our teams on the ground have the local expertise and authority to provide fast, effective solutions for our clients across our network of dedicated offices in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK (Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and London).

Whether it's our expert underwriters, risk control engineers, claims managers or international solutions team, we work in partnership with our brokers to deliver our highly-specialised and comprehensive portfolio of innovative and market-leading products in response to emerging exposures and ever-changing needs.

CNA Hardy is part of CNA Financial Corp, one of the largest U.S. commercial property and casualty insurance companies.

Trusted for more than 125 years, CNA provides a broad range of standard and specialised insurance products and services for over 1 million businesses and professionals across the U.S., Canada and Europe.