Underwriting Manager (Remote)

Job description / Role

What you do:

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

– Lead the Reinsurance team to deliver on departmental goals and monitor adherence to plan.
– Lead and manage the team, ensuring organisational structure and processes are best fit to serve external and internal customers.
– Review and approval of quotations for new and existing customers in line with growth strategy.
– Ensure that all new business, renewal quotations and pricing requests are addressed in a manner designed to secure clients.
– Positively represent the company internally within the Allianz and externally to the market (including client negotiations).
– Work closely with Portfolio Monitoring team to ensure adequate monitoring and reporting is in place and is shared with the appropriate audience in a timely manner.
– Take action quickly on emerging trends or any changes in the business that impact the accurate of pricing.
– Drive and proactively monitor a consistent and coherent global underwriting governance framework ensuring alignment of processes between the different lines of business.
– Proactively drive involvement of functional areas in the Underwriting and Pricing process, including e.g. Actuarial, Finance, Operations.
– Responsibility for Health, Safety and Welfare within team (please refer to the Company`s Safety Statement for full list of responsibilities)

What you bring:

To be successful in this position you will need to have the following skills/ experience:

– Minimum of 5 years of a proven track record in an Underwriting position, ideally within Dubai Health Reinsurance.
– Minimum of 3 years (re)insurance management experience in a relevant line of business.
– Proven experience of consistently delivering to tight and exacting deadlines.
– Proven track record of successful negotiations with large corporate clients
– Preferably Degree and / or professional insurance qualification (e.g. CII)
– Strong knowledge of Ms Office, especially Excel.
– Demonstrate strong managerial skills and experience, with a hands-on approach; A penchant for being proactive
– Must be highly collaborative.
– Strong communication, attention to detail, time management and leadership skills.
– Ability to motivate teams to produce quality output within tight time frames and simultaneously.
– Professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
– Highly numerate
– Strong attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills
– Proactive, focused and structured attitude to work and an ability to constantly meet deadlines.
– Customer focused
– Comfortable challenging the ideas of others.
– Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
– Ability to work effectively within a team environment
– Honesty and Integrity
– Presentation skills
– Ability to motivate others

What we offer:

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

About the Company

With over 159,000 employees from 172 nationalities across more than 70 countries, we are one of the world’s most trusted insurance and asset management companies. We offer a broad range of products and services in property/casualty insurance, life/health insurance, and asset management. We have our largest operational presence in Europe, and our parent company, Allianz SE, is headquartered in Munich, Germany. From jobs in Actuarial, Business and IT to Inhouse Consulting and Investment Management – your opportunities are endless!