Who we are

We are not your average insurance company; in fact, we strive to be different. You will not find strict dress codes, jargon-filled documents, or unrealistic targets here. What you will find is a welcoming culture, a clear vision and teams of passionate people doing their best for our customers.

LV= GI is a large, multi-award-winning general insurance company, with nearly 7 million customers and aspirations for future growth. Having recently become part of the Allianz family, we’re proud to be one of the largest personal insurers in the UK.

Role Description

LV= GI has a great opportunity for a Senior Underwriter within our Retail business. Your primary focus will be the agile management of our Motor or Home portfolio’s through underwriting development and trading across all direct distribution channels to support LVGIG’s strategic aims.

You’ll be responsible for proactively enhancing these portfolio’s and their footprint to whilst managing any policy misrepresentation risks. This includes participating in / chairing forums and sharing insight and recommendations with senior management to drive continuous improvements.

As an empowered Senior Underwriter, you will play a key role in delivering our ambitious profitable growth plans by driving the underwriting activity and focus within the team. Your role will involve providing timely and intelligent portfolio underwriting proposals.

You’ll undertake market research and monitor MI to identify opportunities and recommend changes to our products, business controls, payment plans and processes to ensure they are fit for purpose, meet customer expectations and comply with regulatory requirements.

Working closely with the wider underwriting team, you’ll define product strategy and collaborate closely with colleagues across the business to ensure successful delivery of our underwriting, data science and pricing initiatives. You’ll also act as an expert referral point.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong data skills and in-depth underwriting knowledge to help shape our products and underwriting to reflect a rapidly evolving digitalised world and customer needs, whilst being a part of a successful team within the GI Retail business.

About You:

As a self-starter with the passion to work on your own initiative, setting your own priorities and managing workload with minimum supervision, you’ll offer us your significant experience as an insurance professional. You’ll be working in a fast-paced trading environment and be able to use data to inform where action is required.

You’re likely to have a background in underwriting, product development, data research or counter fraud within a Direct environment (call centre, web, aggregator and partner), or have relevant technical expertise relating to motor or home insurance. And you’re likely to hold, or be progressing towards a relevant professional qualification.