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You might already be an established Surety Underwriter looking for your next challenge, or have relevant experience in a specialty underwriting environment and be ready to develop your expertise in a growing market.\nA bit about the job\nOur Surety team helps businesses secure the guarantees they need to win contracts, deliver projects and grow with confidence. As a Surety Underwriter, you'll assess and manage risk while building trusted relationships with brokers and customers across the UK market.\nYou'll be responsible for underwriting new and existing business, maintaining portfolio performance and delivering positive customer outcomes. Working closely with colleagues across underwriting, operations and risk, you'll help support the continued growth of Aviva's Surety proposition. This is an opportunity to make a real impact in a specialist area while developing your career with a market-leading insurer.\nSkills and experience we're looking for\n Experience underwriting Surety business, including both new business and renewals.\n Strong understanding of UK regulatory requirements, contracts and legislation relevant to Surety underwriting.\n Ability to manage and grow a profitable portfolio while making sound underwriting decisions.\n Strong relationship-building skills, with experience working closely with brokers, customers and internal stakeholders.\n Experience balancing commercial opportunities with a focus on delivering good customer outcomes.\nWhat you’ll get for this role:\nOur purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.\n Competitive starting salary between (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications)\n Competitive bonus opportunity - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.\n Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%\n 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days\n Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it\n Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts\n Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme\n Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave\n Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work\n Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others\n We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools\nTake a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.\nAviva is for everyone:\nWe’re inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.\nWe flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.\nTo find out more about working at Aviva take a look here\nWe'd love it if you could submit your application online. 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