Lead Trading Underwriter - Real Estate Speciality

Join AXA Commercial and be part of an award-winning team! As the 2024 Insurance Award's Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year, we're proud to be industry recognised for our ongoing commitment to supporting our broker partners and customers. As part of our 2024 growth plans across London Real Estate, we're looking for a Lead Trading Underwriter to join our team.
Reporting into the Underwriting Manager, you'll drive profitable growth, particularly through Mid-Market and corporate clients, in the real estate segment by underwriting risks within agreed authority levels to maximise income whilst developing key relationships with a panel of brokers in line with company objectives.
At 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 60% of your week away from home, either at our office in London, visiting clients or attending industry events.
What you'll be doing:

Ensure trading teams underwrite new and existing business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices.
Proactively lead the development of strong trading relationships with panel of brokers, taking full ownership for the generation of profitable business from nominated panel.
Develop a robust pipeline of appropriate new business opportunities and ensure that long-term pipeline is realised by ensuring broker and client engagement.
Lead meetings, presentations and tender responses with brokers and end customers to portray AXA's capabilities and secure new business opportunities.
Coach, train and develop Senior Underwriters to continually improve their technical and trading capability from a New and Existing business perspective.
Act as the referral point for Senior Underwriters within your team, providing technical and trading input to improve the quality of decisions within their empowerment.
Actively manage and review underwriting standards and licences within the team ensuring effective management and deployment of empowerment.
Effectively promote and deploy AXA's strategy, product range, propositions, and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities.