Example Career Paths

Senior Underwriter

Learning, Building Expertise and Reputation

• Possesses a comprehensive understanding of finance and business.
• Exerts influence over a wide market / industry / client base.
• Provides strategic direction internally and leadership externally.
• Actively encourages knowledge and expertise sharing across the organisation.
• Actively engenders a culture of coaching, mentoring and learning across the organisation.
• Uses wider influence to raise profile of own team.

Underwriting

• Accountable for the outcomes of more than one underwriting account or the whole syndicate.

Data Compilation / Analysis / Assessment / Management

• Analyses figures in multiple accounts to look at where best / worst results are evident.
• Conducts wide analysis of "Own Managing Agency / Own Syndicate" market / position (business planning, translation of product ideas into business).
• High level analysis of the account to identify adjustments to achieve desired impact on bottom line.

Contribution towards the running of the accounts

• Sets strategic direction for account.
• Manages resources to meet the business plan.
• Accountable for the delivery of the business plan and budgets being met.
• Sets divisional targets and monitors and directs progress to meet them.
• Ensures continuous improvement and quality throughout the account and also throughout the company or syndicate.
• Maximises efficiency of distribution chain to customers.

Collaboration, Management and Leadership

• Takes responsibility for raising issues at managing agency / group level.
• Provides strategic direction to team/s.
• Provides direction to managing agency / group.
• Aligns people internally and externally to "Own Managing Agency / Own Syndicate" plans/goals.
• Resources and retains a high quality and productive team.
• Actively creates a culture that engenders: flexibility, focus on customer needs, continuous improvement, taking personal responsibility for the development of own team, and the sharing of knowledge and professional expertise.
• Develops and rewards leadership skills of own team managers.
• Actively encourages innovation and change: engenders a culture where "above-the-water" mistakes are allowed and people are accountable both for the success and failure resulting from their decisions and actions.
• Engenders a culture where individual progress is strongly linked to developing and coaching own juniors.

Business Development

• Exerts influence across wide market / industry / client base to increase business for "Own Managing Agency / Own Syndicate".
• Generates the need for "Own Managing Agency / Own Syndicate" products in the industry and market and with brokers and clients.
• Understands customers and their business and how to help them.
• Responsible for future planning (business development, R&D, customer relations).
• PR/sales/marketing - talks to press, brokers, industry experts regarding own account and "Own Managing Agency / Own Syndicate".