Allianz UK
Underwriting Manager Property Owners or Commercial Combined
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Head of Underwriting
About the Role
You will lead underwriting delivery, driving strong product performance, technical excellence, and profitable growth. This is a key leadership role where you will:
- Develop underwriting capability with your team
- Ensure disciplined, high-quality decision-making aligned to strategy
Location
This role is based in our Maidstone office but operates as a hybrid working role, with the expectation to attend the office at least 2 days per week. Salary is dependent on experience, skills, and location and forms part of the total reward package.
About You
- Lead, motivate, and develop a team of underwriters to deliver strong results and high engagement
- Deliver KPI targets across complex cases and portfolios, aligned with product strategy
- Use underwriting authority with a clear understanding of profit and loss impact and portfolio performance
- Make key commercial decisions to support profitable growth and strengthen distribution relationships
- Support business development activity in line with distribution segmentation strategy
- Conduct underwriting inspections, account control, and quality review activity where required
- Produce and deliver technical training, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports
- Partner with the Head Chief Underwriting Office and Underwriting Enablement teams to design and deliver technical capability frameworks
- Collaborate with Distribution to support service delivery and performance
- Represent Allianz in internal and external forums, engaging with key stakeholders
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Essential Skills
- Proven leadership capability, with experience managing or developing underwriting teams
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business performance and growth objectives
- Strong underwriting expertise (policy wordings, clauses, non-standard cover)
- Ability to assess risk, pricing, and terms, applying risk management principles effectively
- Understanding of claims drivers and mitigation strategies
- Strong knowledge of underwriting governance, legislation, and regulatory frameworks
- Ability to interpret KPIs and identify trends and opportunities
- Understanding of reinsurance principles (treaty and facultative arrangements)
- Strong commercial acumen and knowledge of portfolio/account management principles
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Desirable Skills
- ACII qualification or equivalent industry experience
- Completion of underwriting academy modules or similar professional development
- Knowledge of project or change delivery within underwriting environments
- Experience contributing to product development or segmentation activity
- Strong track record of delivering against challenging objectives
- Qualified understanding of responsible artificial intelligence usage
What We Will Offer You
We recognise and reward a job well done, and we offer a range of flexible benefits to tailor your package. Benefits include:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance-related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- Up to 50% discount on Allianz insurance products (car, home, pet)
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
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We also provide:
- Global career opportunities across the Allianz Group
- Fantastic career development and training opportunities
Our Ways of Working
We embrace flexibility and support flexible working patterns, including discussions around working hours. Learn more about our commitment through the ABIs flexible working charter.
Flexibility is key to innovation, creativity, and achieving work-life balance.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Allianz is proud to be:
- EDGE certified for gender inclusion
- Members of the Women in Finance Charter
- Disability Confident employer
- Stonewall Diversity Champion
- Signatories of the Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter
- Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments.
Accessibility & Support for Candidates
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support applicants with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme. If eligible, contact: Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk
Closing date: 13/07/2026 We reserve the right to close the advert early if sufficient applications are received.
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