Trade Credit Underwriter

Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share or full-time basis.

Salary: Competitive salary plus an excellent benefits package!

Location: London. Hybrid working with at least 3 days in our Mark Lane office.

Closing date for applications: 11th November 2026

Are you an Underwriter or Senior Underwriter with experience in Trade Credit?

Whether you're looking to take the next step in your underwriting career or you're an experienced Senior Underwriter seeking a fresh challenge, this is an exciting opportunity to join our London Market Surety & Trade Credit team. You'll play a key role in driving profitable growth, building strong broker relationships and shaping the continued success of our Trade Credit business.

Joining our Global Specialties business in London, you'll be a key member of our Trade Credit & Surety team, helping to grow and develop our portfolio by delivering exceptional service, market insight, and underwriting expertise to brokers and customers.

As a Trade Credit Underwriter, you'll take on significant responsibility for underwriting complex Trade Credit risks across a diverse range of industry sectors, ensuring every decision aligns with our underwriting strategy, risk appetite, authorities, and pricing frameworks. Leveraging your strong credit and financial analysis capabilities, you'll assess buyer and debtor risk, support brokers and customers with tailored solutions, and contribute directly to the achievement of our Trade Credit business's strategic and operational objectives.

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

• Underwriting within individual underwriting authority and for providing recommendations for approval by credit committee for facilities outside of individual underwriting authority.
• Participation on credit committees with authority alongside other credit committee members to approve larger facilities underwritten bythe team.
• Negotiate wordings, structures, facilities and limits in the structured credit space.
• Act as referral point for other members of the team.
• Develop a pipeline of enquiries, internal Zurich relationships, cross selling and broker relationships.
• Identifying and developing new Trade Credit and Structured Credit products and target segments.
• Implementing new operational improvements.

• Proven experience underwriting Trade Credit business, with a strong understanding of credit risk assessment and portfolio management.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, with the ability to analyse financial statements, market intelligence, and economic trends to make sound underwriting decisions.
• Excellent understanding of Trade Credit insurance products, policy structures, and coverage wordings.
• Strong relationship-building skills, with a collaborative approach to working with brokers, customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the confidence to influence, challenge, and engage at all levels.
• Proven ability to identify profitable growth opportunities while maintaining strong underwriting discipline.
• Ideally, an established network of broker and market relationships within the UK Trade Credit and broader Commercial Insurance market.

Everyone’s different. That’s why at Zurich, we offer a wide range of employee benefits so our people can choose what fits them and their life. Our benefits provide real flexibility so…