Underwriter

Avencia are partnered with an established organisation looking to recruit an Underwriter to continue to grow its UK healthcare portfolio.

This is a market-facing position with a strong emphasis on developing broker relationships, generating new-business opportunities and underwriting medical malpractice risks.

The organisation writes a broad range of primary and secondary healthcare risks, including GP practices, clinics, diagnostics providers and occupational health businesses. You'll join an experienced underwriting team and have considerable autonomy to manage your own broker relationships, diary and development activity.
Key responsibilities

Develop and underwrite new UK medical malpractice business
Build commercially successful relationships across the UK healthcare broking market
Identify, manage and convert new-business opportunities
Maintain an active pipeline and develop longer-term broker strategies
Assess, price and negotiate risks within agreed underwriting authority
Represent the business at broker, client and market meetings
Provide technical input on policy wordings, clauses and endorsements
Act as a referral point and share technical knowledge with colleagues
Monitor market developments and identify opportunities for portfolio growth
Support the continued development of underwriting guidelines and products

Skills & experience

Experience underwriting UK medical malpractice or healthcare risks
Demonstrable experience writing and developing new business
Established relationships within the UK healthcare broking market
Strong commercial, negotiation and relationship-management skills
Comfortable representing the business externally and maintaining a visible market presence

Why join?

A development-led role with a clear new-business mandate
Broad UK healthcare appetite
An established portfolio with strong retention
Significant autonomy over broker development activity
Opportunity to contribute to portfolio growth and future product development


If you're an experienced medical malpractice underwriter who enjoys developing broker relationships and winning new business, please apply or get in touch for a confidential conversation.