IDEX Consulting Ltd
Underwriting Director / ATE
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Underwriting Director, ATE
Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: up to £125,000 plus bonus
We've been retained by an established specialist in litigation and legal expenses insurance, underwriting after-the-event (ATE) and related legal risk with the backing of highly rated capacity partners. Following sustained growth, and with a clear plan for the next phase, they are looking to appoint an Underwriting Director to lead their ATE underwriting function.
This is a leadership role rather than one holding the pen. You will set the direction of the underwriting business, lead the people who carry it out and steer the function through a period of growth and structural change, with the authority to make that change stick.
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- You will own the ATE underwriting strategy and answer for its results, setting the process and standards and making sure the team underwrites consistently to them.
- You will lead, develop and hold to account a team of underwriters, building the capability and structure the business needs to scale.
- You will also lead the change programme that embeds a new underwriting structure and future-proofs the platform to deliver for multiple capacity providers.
- Alongside the executive committee, you will manage those capacity relationships closely, giving partners clear sight of performance, governance and controls.
- Working with Operations, you will make sure process, systems, data and claims keep pace with the underwriting, so growth doesn't outrun the controls behind it.
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We're keen to speak with senior leaders from the ATE, legal expenses or wider litigation market, whether from an underwriting, litigation funding or legal background, who have taken a business through meaningful change and can bring others with them on the journey.
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