Markel International
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New Business Underwriter (Care & Charity)
Leeds | Manchester | Birmingham | London | Croydon
Hybrid Working (3 days office / 2 days home)
Shape the future of Care insurance with one of the market's leading specialists!
At Markel, we're proud to be recognised as one of the UK's most respected specialist insurers. Our Care team has built an outstanding reputation for expertise, service, and underwriting excellence, creating long-standing broker relationships and a highly profitable portfolio across the Care, Social Welfare, and Charity sectors.
We're now looking for a New Business Underwriter to join our award-winning team as we continue to invest in growth across this specialist market.
This is an opportunity to join a highly successful team that was recently recognised as Team of the Year, working alongside experienced underwriters who are passionate about developing talent and delivering outstanding results. Whether you're an established Care Underwriter or a technically strong Charity Underwriter looking to broaden your expertise, you'll find genuine opportunity to build your career here.
Why join Markel?
This isn't just another underwriting role.
You'll become part of one of the UK's strongest specialist Care underwriting businesses, benefiting from:
- An established and profitable portfolio with excellent market reputation
- Significant and consistent new business opportunities through strong broker relationships
- Exposure to complex and specialist Care and Charity risks
- A highly autonomous working environment where you'll be trusted to make decisions
- Direct broker engagement and relationship-building opportunities
- The chance to become a recognised specialist within the Care insurance sector
- Clear career progression pathways into Senior Underwriting and broader leadership opportunities
- An award-winning team culture built on collaboration, support, and success
What you'll be doing:
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As a New Business Underwriter, you'll play a key role in driving profitable growth across our Care and Charity portfolio.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Underwriting and winning new business across the Care, Social Welfare, and Charity sectors
- Assessing submissions, reviewing claims experience, and evaluating risk exposures
- Producing competitive quotations whilst maintaining underwriting discipline
- Managing and delivering against individual new business income targets
- Building strong broker relationships and becoming a trusted market contact
- Supporting broker development activity, training sessions, and proposition discussions
- Working collaboratively with Distribution, Trading, and Operations teams
- Identifying market trends and opportunities to support future growth
- Acting as a specialist ambassador for Markel's Care proposition within the broker market
What we're looking for:
We're keen to speak with ambitious underwriters who are passionate about the Care and Charity sectors.
You'll ideally bring:
Essential
- Previous underwriting experience
- Care Insurance or Charity Insurance experience
- New business underwriting experience
- Strong commercial judgement and decision-making capability
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- The ability to work independently and manage your own workload
- A proactive approach to broker engagement and business development
We'd also love to see
- Existing broker relationships
- Experience presenting to brokers or delivering training sessions
- Social Welfare underwriting exposure
- Ambition to progress your underwriting career within a specialist insurer
What you'll receive:
Alongside a competitive salary, you'll benefit from:
- Quarterly bonus opportunity with earnings of up to 20%
- Hybrid working
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Fully funded CII qualifications
- Ongoing study support and professional development
- Internal career progression opportunities across Markel's wider business
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Why now?
The Care team continues to be one of the strongest performing areas of the business, supported by a recognised market brand, loyal broker relationships, and ambitious growth plans. You'll be joining at an exciting time, helping shape the next phase of growth while developing your own specialist expertise within a business that genuinely invests in its people.
If you're looking for a role where your underwriting expertise is valued, your development is supported, and your career can genuinely progress, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and discover why so many underwriters choose to build their careers at Markel.
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.
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