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That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.\nJob Category\nUnderwritingTarget Openings\n1What Is the Opportunity?\nWe're hiring a Senior D&O Underwriter based in Manchester or Leeds, with responsibility for new business growth across the North region.With a primary focus on driving new business development, you will proactively grow a portfolio of broker relationships while simultaneously managing renewal business to maintain retention, pricing, and profitability.\nWorking alongside regional and product specialists, your main objective will be to bring in new clients, identify fresh opportunities for growth, and expand existing accounts. This role prioritises sales and proactive pipeline development alongside expert underwriting, you will fully own your broker relationships and be directly accountable for the new and recurring revenue they produce.\nBeyond your own portfolio, you'll play an active part in developing the people around you, coaching and mentoring Development Underwriters and setting the standard for how the team operates.\nTravelers Europe currently offers flexibility to employees who wish to work on a hybrid basis in accordance with our Hybrid Work Arrangements Policy. This entails full time employees working three days a week in the office and two days at home (or pro rata for part-time employees). This policy may be changed at the Company’s discretion.\nWhat Will You Do?\nUnderwrite and assess risk for products and accounts from assigned brokers. Make appropriate decisions within own underwriting authority in addition to considered, intelligent, and complete recommendations to regional or product underwriting leadership.\nConsistent with TICL underwriting principles underwrite more complex accounts and risks and consider different approaches toward risks to maximise profitability (e.g., pricing, retention, endorsements, limits, indemnity, security).\nMake prompt, sound decisions within underwriting authority and based on appropriate underwriting information. Negotiate terms and conditions consistent with regional or product underwriting requirements and standards within submission timeframe.\nUnderstand and execute product segment strategies to produce budgeted results.\nContinuously manage book of business (maintain quality of business required by regional or product underwriting strategy).\nAccountable for accurate underwriting documentation and information in account management systems and adherence to documentation standards.\nEmbrace required working practices with allocated Underwriting Account Management resource in order to deliver appropriate and timely underwriting service on your accounts at all times.\nEstablish and maintain collaborative relationships with colleagues in Head Office, Risk Control, Claims, Actuarial, and as needed, any other parts of the organisation.\nIn exercising own underwriting authority, assure that policies and accounts are effectively underwritten, handled and documented in compliance with company and regulatory standards and requirements.\nDevelop and leverage broker/client relationships through a high level of visibility and using a disciplined sales management approach (e.g., planning and follow-up for broker and prospective customer visits/meetings) in support of business objectives.\nEffectively develop and execute sales plans for assigned brokers in conjunction with the regional sales leadership as appropriate.\nCreate and achieve sales plans that identify and capture new business opportunities and effectively cross sell TICL products.\nAct as a responsible business partner with assigned brokers and clients, managing interests of TICL.\nSeek out and maintain collaborative relationships with colleagues in other business units and regions to foster business development.\nActively participate/lead regularly scheduled regional and product underwriting and/or sales meetings with your team.\nDemonstrate superior customer service standards (consistency, quick response, knowledge of products).\nWork with others to help achieve underwriting, sales and production goals and understand and work towards strategic objectives.\nCustomer interaction focusing on meeting customer expectations for response time and knowledge of products and business.\nWork strategically and tactically with brokers to ensure they have an appropriate level of understand.\nAs an employee you are expected to act in an ethical manner at all times. You will ensure you understand all compliance and regulatory requirements for your role by completing all necessary training and certifications.\nAs an employee we expect your actions and outcomes will at all times meet local regulatory and supervisory approaches to ensure fair treatment of our customers. You will ensure you keep adequate records of all transactions undertaken with customers, brokers and all other parties.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nWhat Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?\nUniversity degree and/or Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Advanced Certification or Diploma preferred.\nGeneral knowledge of industry business operations and work methods, critical business issues and financial drivers that affect the Line of Business.\nGeneral knowledge of the local insurance marketplace and effectively uses that knowledge to the Company's advantage; continuously seeks out local market insight.\nContinuously seeks out market insight and uses acquired knowledge to assist less experienced employees.\nIntermediate:\nRelationship Management: Seeks out, builds, fosters and maintains productive relationships or alliances to meet goals and achieve objectives\nIntermediate:\nBusiness Perspective: Uses knowledge of internal and external factors that impact the Lloyd's Market to make decisions\nIntermediate:\nAnalytical Thinking/Financial Acumen: Identifies current or future problems or opportunities, analyzes, synthesizes and compares information to understand issues, identifies cause/effect relationships, and explores alternatives to support sound decision making.\nUtilizes understanding of finance and accounting principles to identify the impact of responsible underwriting decisions on the overall profitability of the business.\nIntermediate:\nProduct/Technical: Demonstrates technical proficiency and application of knowledge commensurate to his/her underwriting authority.\nMakes sound quoting and pricing decisions that are in the Company's best interests.\nN/A\nWhat is a Must Have?\nPrevious experience of underwriting in management liability/professional indemnity/financial institutions required.\nWhat Is in It for You?\nPrivate Medical Insurance: On commencement of employment, you are eligible for single cover provided by Travelers, with the option to add cover for your dependents, at your expense through payroll deduction.\nRetirement: Travelers will make a core contribution of a percentage of salary to your Pension Plan. Additionally, if you decide to contribute to the plan, you will receive an increased company contribution.\nHoliday Entitlement: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 25 days holiday entitlement annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 35 holidays per year.\nWellness Programme: The Travelers wellness programme is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health programme provides access to free professional counseling services and other resources that support your daily life needs.\nVolunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards programme that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.\nEmployment Practices\nTravelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.\nIf you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.\nTravelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.\nTo learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8703,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Property & Casualty Insurance"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T16:47:06Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-19T03:43:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/travelers-senior-development-underwriter-do","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/travelers-senior-development-underwriter-do.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T00:12:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":288,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3965},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3965"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftravelers-senior-development-underwriter-do"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftravelers-senior-development-underwriter-do"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftravelers-senior-development-underwriter-do"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/travelers-senior-development-underwriter-do\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftravelers-senior-development-underwriter-do"}]}