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

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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