Underwriter, Insurance

The W&I team is currently looking for a M&A consultancy / advisory specialist with exposure to M&A transaction processes, due diligence, sale and purchase agreements, and related deal documentation (with direct experience of W&I insurance a plus) or experienced W&I underwriter to compliment it’s existing expertise of market experience, law, tax and financial due diligence. You will be joining a highly motivated team at an exciting time as we look to establish ourselves as the market leader in W&I SME risks and embrace new ideas in terms of portfolio construction, policy development and IT/AI solutions.

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Who we are:

Business Unit overview:

Professional & Financial Risks (PFR) focus on international and UK-domiciled business. The team is made up of five business divisions, Professional Indemnity, Management Liability, Warranty & Indemnity, Financial Institutions and Cyber Liability. We provide excellent service via our knowledgable underwriters who are available both at Lloyd’s and in our offices. We have a flexible and innovative approach to underwriting that ensures that we can provide the product required by our customers.

The Warranty & Indemnity (W&I) team is currently comprised of 9 individuals:
Director - Head of W&I, three Senior Underwriters, an Underwriter, three Assistant Underwriters and a Graduate Assistant Underwriter. It is a relatively new team that was set up in Q4 2022 to write open market W&I risks. PFR has supported a broad portfolio of coverholders in the transactional liability space since 2014, which has performed well and informed a long-term strategy to underwrite directly alongside the delegated book.

The team focuses on underwriting SME risks (deal sizes of c. GBP/USD/EUR 3m to 300m) in the UK and Europe, using the data and insights from its cover holder portfolio and the resources of a global, multi-line specialist insurer.

Part of Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contributing to the W&I underwriting strategy to establish a market leading team within the W&I marketplace.
• Review and underwrite new risks using a technical rating model and coverage guidelines that we have developed.
• Harvest insights from the sizeable data pool we have access to through the 10+ years of supporting coverholders to derive claims trends and inform underwriting approach.
• Build and develop positive relationships with new and existing brokers, other distribution partners and private equity / acquisitive corporate clients, and establish yourself as a market leader in your skill-set.
• Support the analysis of overall portfolio data and act upon those findings – i.e., iterate on the rating model and coverage guidelines as the book matures to expand margin and drive profitable growth over the market cycle.
• Develop skills in negotiating policy terms and conditions.
• Help to build and maintain strong working relationships within Markel.

Key

Skills:

Technical Underwriting

• Experience with in your specialist skill-set relevant for W&I underwriting or direct experience underwriting W&I risks.
• Strong understanding of the risks inherent in underwriting W&I from the perspective of your specialist skill-set.
• Develop an understanding of the principles of the technical rating engine and monitor portfolio rate adequacy according to Markel’s underwriting principles and in line with authority limits.
• Use analytical skills to improve Markel’s underwriting capabilities (e.g. loss performance and underwriting efficiency).
• Work with others…