Assistant Market Underwriter

Assistant Market Underwriter

Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share or full-time basis.

Location: Farnborough & Fareham Hybrid– 2 days per week office minimum.

Closing date for applications: 5th March 2025

The opportunity

We are seeking an energetic and ambitious individual to join our experienced team as Assistant Underwriter. As an entry role into the exciting world of Property, Casualty and Motor underwriting within Zurich, we’ll support and train you – with both on-the-job training and funded professional development. You’ll be learning from some of the best underwriters in the industry.

Zurich Municipal is a leading provider of insurance and risk management solutions for the public and voluntary sectors. Since 1993, we’ve insured charities, voluntary organisations, housing associations, and the education and public sectors, helping our customers better understand and reduce the risks they face.

The roles are within our market-facing underwriting teams and provide a structured career path into the world of underwriting. They are a learning ground, providing opportunities to gain exposure to customers, their advisors, and the many other professionals involved in the world of Risk Management and Insurance.

Working with our market underwriters, you will be building your foundations for success – learning risk and insurance fundamentals, dealing with customer queries, producing documentation, and instructing risk surveys with our surveyors amongst other things.

If you are analytically minded, are comfortable with numbers, enjoy detail and making decisions, and are interested to learn more about the range of possibilities as an underwriter, we’d love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare data sets and conduct basic analysis.
• Manage customer queries - providing a responsive and quality experience.
• Instruct risk surveys and provide a summary of findings to market underwriters.
• Working with market underwriters, manage progress of Risk Improvement actions with customers.
• Be a team player and contribute to a standout service experience.

Your skills and experience

• Ambition, willingness to learn, grow, and be part of a team.
• Underwriting experience (within Property and Casualty) is a plus, but not required.
• Numerate and at ease creating and manipulating data sets.
• Ability to draw conclusions from data and create recommendations.
• Attention to detail and ability to challenge processes and decisions.
• Adaptability to different workloads and pressures.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.

What will you get in return?

Everyone’s different. That’s why at Zurich, we offer a wide range of employee benefits so our people can choose what fits them and their life. Our benefits provide real flexibility so our people can make considered choices and tailor their benefits throughout the year. Our benefits include a 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme, annual company bonus, private medical insurance, and the option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday.

Our culture

At Zurich, our sense of community is strong, and we’re particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion. We want our people to bring the whole of themselves to work and ensure everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, beliefs, or culture.

We’re passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity. Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, is one of the longest-established corporate trusts in the UK.

So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported. Love what you do. Work for us.