Technical Underwriter

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Manchester

Job Ref: 204836

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Technical Underwriter to join our team in our Manchester office.

As a Technical Underwriter, you will act as the technical specialist with responsibility for complex case work and the competency of the wider underwriting team through the delivery of coaching, training, procedures and practices, technical updates, working with customers and key internal & external stakeholders.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Develop, negotiate and profitably underwrite new and existing business to drive retention of the account, delivering underwriting excellence through specialist knowledge and support.
• Drive portfolio management, lead technical pricing initiatives and contribute to product development to support profitable growth and innovation across the underwriting function.
• Contribute to the implementation and maintenance of underwriting guides and audit recommendations, supporting the business unit in ensuring that standards are met and technical expertise cascaded.
• Responsible for the technical competence of underwriters across the area. Act as a technical referral point for the team, provide coaching, training and support for colleagues including less experienced members of the team with their engagement and underwriting development, identifying training needs and delivering training where appropriate.
• Leading the team self-audit process including completing audits and analysing team audit results, identifying trends and implementing solutions to improve future results.
• Build and maintain commercial relationships with key clients and broker partners, and represent the company at customer, partner and industry events where required.

What you'll need to have

• Proven significant Commercial Underwriting experience.
• Experience of acting as a coach, empowering others within a commercial environment including taking referrals.
• A proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service as an individual and as an effective part of the team.
• Experience of completing audits and providing feedback to improve underwriting performance.

What makes you stand out

• ACII qualified or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale.
• Experience of conducting training to individuals and groups.
• Experience of effective stakeholder management within a commercial environment.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 6% and 24%
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

• Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26