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Reporting into the Branch Manager, you will form part of the local Senior Leadership Team where you’ll lead and manage the operational underwriting function of our branch, applying underwriting, pricing strategy and policies, to build technical excellence and deliver profit and income targets. Working with the Distribution team to drive profitable growth across our broker partners strengthening our position in the local market.\nKey responsibilities:\nDrive underwriting profitability through account management, financial planning, and trend analysis across all Branch broker business\nMaintain loss ratio control by implementing and monitoring underwriting controls to ensure governance and financial performance\nSet underwriting standards and manage empowerment deployment consistently across the Branch\nLead technical decision-making on new and current deals to achieve combined operating ratio targets\nBuild key customer relationships to deliver profitable growth and align with broker action plans across the network\nProvide technical expertise and referral point for all underwriting and trading decisions, establishing the Branch as an underwriting authority\nLead and develop the underwriting team through performance management to build technical capability and capability\nChampion change initiatives including system and process improvements to ensure consistency across the Branch network, Schemes, and Trading Centres\nWork arrangements:\nAt AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least three days a week (60%) away from home, this means attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events.\nYour skills & experience:\n\nSenior commercial insurance leadership - Proven experience leading underwriting teams in a commercial insurance environment with strong market and process knowledge\n\nTechnical underwriting expertise - Extensive knowledge of commercial underwriting scenarios, large case and portfolio management, with demonstrated decision-making capability\n\nPeople management - Ability to lead, motivate, and develop underwriting teams through effective performance management\n\nRelationship building - Excellent skills in developing successful long-term relationships with internal and external stakeholders\n\nStrategic & analytical thinking - Strong planning and analytical capabilities with experience in both operational and strategic planning\n\nCommercial acumen - Understanding of business profitability within the intermediary channel and commercial product ranges\n\nCommunication & decision-making - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with pragmatic, analytical approach to decision-making\n\nNumerical reasoning - Strong analytical and numerical skills to drive financial planning and performance analysis\nAs a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.\nIDD:\nThis position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.\nHow to apply:\n\nTo apply, click on the ‘apply now’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. 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