Senior Underwriter - Bespoke

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Working hours:

35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:
Permanent

Location:

Gloucester

Job

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Senior Underwriter to join our Bespoke Team in the Gloucester office. It’s an exciting time to join our Corporate Bespoke team at Ecclesiastical Insurance. As a Senior Underwriter, you’ll manage a portfolio of prestigious cases across our specialist sectors, Education, Charity, and Care, where your expertise makes an impact.

This role offers the chance to showcase your negotiation and trading skills on both new business and renewals, while building strong, collaborative relationships with key partners. You’ll be part of an inclusive team that values support, knowledge-sharing, and a culture of continuous improvement—where your contribution is recognised and your development is a priority.

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

• Managing a defined caseload.
• Acting as referral point for the team providing coaching, training in an appropriate time frame.
• Developing, negotiating, and profitably underwriting new/existing business within own authority and in line with Brand strategy.
• Planning, prioritising and managing individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLAs to deliver exceptional customer service.
• Maintaining, using, and developing your underwriting authority and taking responsibility for your professionalism and development.

• To be pro-active with desire to continuously improve.
• Competent IT and data skills [including Microsoft suite].
• Commitment to deliver exceptional service contributing both as an individual and as an effective part of a team.
• The ability to build collaborative, productive relationships.
• Able to act as a coach, empowering others within a commercial environment.

• ACII/DIP/ role relevant qualification or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• In depth insurance technical knowledge.
• Experience of the ability to analyse and produce relevant reports.

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it.
• Hybrid working.
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution.
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme.
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance.
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice.
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications.
• Access to virtual GP.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Finance and Sales
• Industry: Insurance

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK. As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

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