Senior Underwriter

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services group in Gloucester is seeking a Senior Underwriter to manage a diverse portfolio of business while directly engaging with customers and brokers. This role involves coaching team members and underwriting a range of insurance products. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and exceptional interpersonal skills. The organization offers competitive salaries, a hybrid working model, and various health and well-being benefits, ensuring a supportive and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension

Annual bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

Employee Assistance Programme

Professional qualifications support

Access to virtual GP

Qualifications

• Proactive with a desire to continuously improve.
• Ability to act as a coach in a commercial environment.
• In-depth insurance technical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined caseload of underwriting business.
• Provide coaching and training to the team.
• Develop and profitably underwrite new and existing business.

Skills

Pro-active attitude

Competent IT and data skills

Ability to build collaborative relationships

Education

ACII/DIP or relevant qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job ref: 204498

About The Role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, part of the Benefact Group, is looking for a Senior Underwriter to join our Cathedral and Diocesan Team in Gloucester. In this role, you will work directly with customers and brokers, underwriting a diverse portfolio of business while supporting some of our most prestigious clients.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture 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.

What You'll Be Doing

• 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.
• Effective and appropriate communication with direct customers & brokers through a variety of communication channels.

What You'll Need to Have

• To be pro‑active with a 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.

What Makes You Stand Out

• ACII/DIP/role relevant qualification or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• In‑depth insurance technical knowledge.
• Experience of managing insurance portfolios with custom insurance propositions.

What We Offer

• 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.

About Us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offers 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 been 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.

We believe it's essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135‑year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

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