Underwriting Support Assistant Job in Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Underwriting Support Assistant Job in Leeds, West Yorkshire

Job Description
About Markel:

Avencia Consulting are an RPO who provide a recruitment service to our client Markel International.

Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

Markel (UK) Ltd is a division of Markel International and serves the regional broker market in specialist classes such as professional and management risks, social welfare and biomedical and life science through a network of regional offices. The successful candidate will be a part of the Leeds office and the renewals team within UK National Markets.

The Role:

Underwriting Support Assistant

Leeds

Competitive Salary + Bonus & Excellent Benefits

Are you looking to start a career within underwriting?

Come and work as part of our renewals team and help provide an excellent underwriting administrative support service to our team here at Markel.

We have an excellent opportunity for an Underwriting Support Assistant to join our Professional and Management Risks Renewals team here in Leeds. The role is based within the renewals department who take care of a wide variety of professional, management, cyber and technology renewals. You'll work alongside our Underwriters and Assistant Underwriters and provide them with a high standard of administrative support.

The Underwriting Support Assistant role will involve some telephone work, emails, data entry, using reports, checking renewal information, dealing with brokers, managing diary responses as well as some ad hoc project work.

If you're looking to foster your career within underwriting working for a global insurance company then this may be the role for you…. We can offer a great career path within Markel!

What you'll be doing:

Providing and maintaining a good standard of technical underwriting support to the renewal team
Accurate and timely input of data into relevant underwriting systems
Liasing with brokers as required
Helping to develop and maintain strong working relationships within the team and wider business
Requesting and reviewing survey reports and issuing risk requirements to brokers
Managing diary items and chasing responses
Following up outstanding renewal information with brokers via phone and email
Deal with internal and external enquiries by email and telephone
Assisting the team and wider business with ad hoc projectsWhat we're looking for:

Excellent written, spoken communication and numerical skills
High level of accuracy and attention to detail
Be computer literate – MS Office as well as have the ability to develop a full understanding and capability of our in-house systems
Be studying for/or be willing to study for CII qualifications – we will fully fund and support you in this qualification
Actively wanting a longer term career within insurance – a large number of our current staff members have worked their way upwards within the team to become full Underwriters!What's in it for you:

A very competitive basic salary plus bonus & benefits.
25 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave.
Company matched pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, a cycle2work scheme, season ticket loan, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), parental, adoption and shared parental leave pay and plenty more.
Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts and cash back on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
The possibility of working from both the office and from home (hybrid), flexible working or other options are available.
You'll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere within Markel.
You'll be joining a global network of experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple teams and countries. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we'll provide the support you need to do just that.What we hope you'll do next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

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 a Disability Confident Committed employer which means we want to ensure that you have a positive experience applying for a role at Markel and are able to perform at your best. If there are any adjustments we can reasonably make to ensure that the process is accessible for you at every stage please email us at

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Country: United Kingdom
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