24061 | Underwriting | Entry Level | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
Have you gained expereince working witin insurance, and are now looking for your next step? And are you interested in becoming an underwriter?
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Underwriter to join our Motor Fleet team in Glasgow. This is a great position for someone who has already gained an understanding working within insurance that’s now keen to take their career one step further.
Flexible Working
Here at Allianz, we believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity and you to thrive.
Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.
This role will involve working from home combined with time in our Glasgow office at least two days per week.
Role Details
The role will include analysing claims data, sending out renewal terms, answering the day-to-day queries from Brokers, and ensuring that renewal terms are sent out in accordance with our compliance rules and regulations.
Other duties will include processing, data analysis and supporting our teams of Underwriters, which in turn will allow you to get involved with writing your own cases.
As a part of our successful team, you will be expected to:
- Build and maintain successful broker relationships
- Develop business relationships with key clients
- Achieve agreed financial performance targets
- Collaborate with other departments to achieve the Company's goals in respect of service delivery and growth
- Engage fully in the cross-sell culture in Allianz
- Process renewals and mid-term adjustments
- Prepare and issue documents to Brokers ensuring that we adhere to compliance and regulation
The role will include attending meetings, meeting Brokers and assisting our Senior Underwriters.
This is a varied role and an exciting opportunity and would suit someone who thrives on being challenged and enjoys every day being different and varied
Skills & Experience
- Must have prior experience working within an insurance environment
- Any underwriting experience is a bonus
- A good team player, supportive to others with an enthusiastic and positive attitude
- Adaptable communication styles
- An analytical mind
- Good trading and negotiation skills with a proven ability to build, develop and maintain broker relationships
- Able to organise own workload to meet tight deadlines and support the team in delivering excellent service levels.
- Diploma CII or willing to progress towards
- A positive "can do" attitude
- To demonstrate Allianz's day to day values of being responsible, caring, excellent and connected and demonstrating this in day-to-day behaviour
About Us
In the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 8,000 people up and down the country. The company’s Head Office is situated in Guildford, Surrey, plus we have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.
We offer commercial insurance with a full range of products for sole traders, right up to large commercial organisations. We also provide a range of personal insurances including, home and motor, musical, legal expenses insurance and cover for pets and horses.
We're a global company, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture. Find out more about Allianz Insurance
Our Benefits
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from – including retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
- 22 Days holiday & 1 addition for birthday plus bank holidays
- Competitive Annual Salary
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Professional mental health support for all employees
- Health and Wellbeing
- We can offer fulltime and part time hours
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Access to Learning and Development opportunities such as LinkedIn Learning and our mentoring scheme
Growing your career with Allianz
We'll provide you with the tools to adapt and change with us, so you can grow your career, while building the skills needed for whatever the future brings.
Inclusion & Diversity
We believe that having a strong focus on Inclusion and Diversity enables us to better understand the customers we serve and the people across our teams. We recognise that people work in different ways and we value alternative viewpoints, celebrate individuality and foster a culture where everyone can bring their best self to work and feel a sense of belonging. It’s really important to us that we create a diverse workforce and we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments and support to all applicants with a disability and we interview every applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact us at hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk to let us know if you have a disability and to discuss how we can support you throughout the application process.
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