Development Underwriter
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
The Role:
The role involves the development of your own panel of brokers through the acquisition of new business and the renewal of an existing book of Business within a Trading team of 10 underwriters. The successful candidate will have at their disposal a unique selection of commercial insurance products including, Property, Liability, CAR, Professional Indemnity, Bonds, Legal expenses and other niche insurance offerings provided by a select panel of Insurer partners.
The Company:
Focus Underwriting, part of BJP Insurance Brokers Ltd based in Wokingham Berks, is a Managing General Agent underwriting Commercial insurances on behalf of a select panel of Insurers. BJP was established in 1998 and four years later they set up Focus underwriting agency to underwrite commercial insurance business.
The Candidate:
Candidates will ideally have:
At least 2 years commercial underwriting experience
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work well within a busy team environment
Educated to A level standard
Good MS office skills
Excellent time management skills
Good relationship building skills
and Cert CII qualified
Benefits & support:
- Office hours are 9.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday with
- 25 days’ annual holiday, plus bank holidays and one extra
- company holiday
- Hybrid working available
- After a qualification period the successful candidate will benefit from:
- Pension enrolment
- Group Personal Accident cover
- Permanent Health Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Westfield Health
- Payment of Chartered Insurance Institute Membership Fees.
- Payment for CII Insurance course workbooks and exam entry.
The Company
JMG Group is a private equity backed insurance broker, based in Guiseley, Leeds with regional office representation around the UK. We are a top 30 broker with 650+ employees and we are growing at significance pace following our MBO that took place in November 2020.
JMG Group place over £300m of Gross Written Premium into the market and our teams are very well respected in the industry. Customer excellence and ‘doing the right thing’ is the backbone to our business ethos, which means that our talented people, high-tech systems, and robust processes are all central to our continued success.
Our Values
We don’t pretend to be the biggest or something we are not. We are really good at recruiting the best people in our market, looking after them and freeing them up to focus on what our customers want from us – professional advice, creating competition for their risk and sorting it out if they have a claim. We pride ourselves on this.
We believe size is important in our market as, without it, it’s harder to negotiate with insurers on behalf of our clients. Growing organically is everything to us, as it reinforces every day that our simple focus is on point – do everything to win and retain our customers.
Einstein called it, we believe in it. Risk and Insurance and running a regulated business is complex, and becoming more complex. At every opportunity, we try to distil what we do into a format that makes it easy for our clients to understand and make informed decisions.
To attract the best team you have to look after them. We invest in our teams constantly to get the best outcome for our clients. The investment takes many forms – continual training (technical, leadership, personal – basically whatever lifts that person into their better selves); a share in the ownership (if you own a bit of it you treat it differently); mentoring; flexible working; the list goes on. We don’t have any real assets on our balance sheet other than our team.
Whether it’s supporting local charities or sports clubs through sponsorship; introducing our clients to other clients to help expand their networks and grow their income; supporting our team when they have family challenges and we need to find a more flexible working pattern; or giving everyone their birthday off to enjoy the moment. We like asking ourselves “what’s the right thing to do” in any given situation.
When we decided to support 5 charities and raise £45,000 for them in our 45th year, we stretched ourselves beyond belief!
We are a supporter of local secondary schools in our communities – helping the students prepare and practice writing CVs, being interviewed and, generally speaking, ready for work.
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