Primary Details

Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Employee The purpose of this role is to underwrite new business and renewals within specified guidelines and authority levels, while providing technical support and overseeing profitable growth within the insurance class. Additionally, the role involves managing underwriting activities as well as fostering relationships with intermediaries and business partners to drive underwriting service delivery and innovation.

Assistant Underwriter - PropertyStafford, with hybrid working

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for an Assistant Underwriter to join our Property team based in Stafford.

In this role, you’ll support the Underwriting team by assessing and underwriting business in line with our business plan and within your delegated authority.

Whether you're looking to build on existing experience or pivot your insurance career into underwriting, you'll receive full training and support from a team of knowledgeable and experienced colleagues — making this a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in the insurance industry.

Your new role

• Provide efficient technical and general underwriting support to the team.
• Help ensure accurate recording and assessment of insurance risks, maintaining high standards and best practices.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, brokers, and customers to support collaborative working.
• Accurately input underwriting data into systems to support informed decision-making and minimise risk.
• Support senior members of the team by completing foundational underwriting tasks.
• Prepare and maintain documentation and records to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Assist in the preparation of management reports and performance data to support business planning.

About you

• Experience from within the insurance industry, ideally in property or commercial lines, whether that’s from underwriting, claims, operations, or a related area.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage and prioritise tasks effectively.
• An analytical mindset; confident working with data
• Good communication and relationship building skills
• A natural problem-solver, tenacious when it comes to resolving queries and seeing tasks through to completion.
• Comfortable using a range of systems, with a good working knowledge of Excel and other relevant software tools.

Why QBE? At My Best?? 

?At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.?? 

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.?? 

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (https://careers/flex-qbe/).? 

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.??