Senior Real Estate Underwriter

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location:  London

Job Ref: 203487

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Senior Underwriter to join our Real Estate team in our London office.

This is a role that involves managing your renewal book, developing and maintaining broker relationships, and securing new business. You will underwrite and lead your own accounts with Underwriters and support the wider Real Estate team.

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 top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, 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 / existing business within own authority and in line with Ecclesiastical strategy
• Plan, prioritise and manage individual work to deliver agreed objectives and meet SLAs to deliver exceptional customer service
• Use the appropriate method of communication (telephone, face to face) to support Ecclesiastical’s right first time approach in order to maintain successful Internal and External relationships
• Act on individual audit results and agreed action plans within agreed deadlines to improve own performance
• Understand and operate within regulatory framework and identify and escalate any risks to the business

What you'll need to have

• Real Estate Underwriting experience and demonstrable market and industry knowledge
• The ability to build collaborative, productive relationships
• Pro-active with desire to continuously improve
• Competent IT and data skills
• Commitment to deliver exceptional service contributing both as an individual and as an effective part of a team

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Hybrid working
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme 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

Hear from the hiring manager

“We're a highly successful team that's grown and developed over recent years - we pride ourselves on creating a supportive work environment, providing exceptional service, and building strong relationships with our brokers.”

About us

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