Job Description

Insurance Underwriter - Commercial - Pretoria

One of our esteemed clients, being a leader in the insurance and underwriting sector, has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Commercial Underwriter.
Key accountabilities

• Underwriting of new commercial risks
• Ensuring that risks are written within the companys risk appetite.
• Adhere to reinsurance treaties and internal mandates.
• Monitoring and taking corrective action on badly performing risks.
• Maintaining an acceptable loss ratio within a broker portfolio.
• Maintain policy wording drafts and ensure that the product remains competitive with market offering.
• Dealing with day to day queries and amendments to existing policies.
• Providing brokers with advice on the current products offering.
• Maintaining and building good customer relationships with brokers.
• Conducting product training for brokers.
• Provide input into building and designing various aspects of the products on a designated system.
• Provide comparisons between the competitors products and our commercial products.

Skills/Competencies:

• Ability to work under pressure
• Negotiating skills
• Good communication skills
• Policy, product and systems knowledge
• Interpersonal skills
• Problem solving and analysis
• Detail orientated
• Numeric skills
• Customer service orientated
• Building relationships

Qualifications & Experience:

• 5 years commercial underwriting experience
• Experience in working with commercial related products
• Proven track record of underwriting experience e.g. assessing exposure and underwriting within agreed mandates.
• Very good communication skills (both written & verbal)
• NQF Level 4: Short-Term Commercial Lines 60 Credits
• Successfully completed the RE 5 Examination Level 1

Remuneration:

Skills Required