Job Description

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Birmingham
Job ref: 204198
About the role
Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Regional Underwriting Manager to join our Birmingham office.
As Regional Underwriting Manager, you'll lead the delivery of Underwriting strategy and performance for the region, representing a key figure head across the territory with both partner brokers and key customers, plus play a leading role within UK wide key strategic underwriting change initiatives and projects.
Why join us?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that's committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group--where all profits go to charity and good causes.
What you'll be doing

• Regional portfolio management of a growing Property & Casualty portfolio across specialist niches of Property Owners, Leisure, Education, Care, Charity, Heritage, Faith and Office Professions.
• Act as the senior regional Underwriting referral point for the Region, providing innovative, customer focussed solutions and support.

• Driving the proactive technical / non-technical development and coaching of regional trading teams to deliver market leading expertise.
• Work in partnership with Regional Director, UK Property Director, UK Casualty Director and Sales & Distribution Director to achieve financial objectives, including growth initiatives for the region.

• Act as the senior Underwriting figurehead within the market with both partner brokers and key customers.

What you'll need to have

• Proven track record in a senior Underwriting leadership role, driving strategic outcomes and team performance.
• Significant technical expertise in both Property and Casualty.
• Experienced in coaching others to achieve higher performance and capability in their roles.
• Ability to build and manage co-operative and productive relationships internally and externally within the market.
• Proven ability to apply critical thinking to situations outside of normal Underwriting guidelines and to frame appropriate solutions.

What makes you stand out

• ACII qualification (or working towards).
• Confident, persuasive communicator with proven ability to influence stakeholders at all organisational levels.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme between 10% and 40%

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance

• 200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager
"We're looking for a bold and strategic underwriting leader to drive regional growth across our specialist Property & Casualty sectors--from Leisure and Education to Heritage, Care, and Office Professions.
You'll empower high-performing trading teams, shape innovative customer solutions, and collaborate with senior leadership to deliver profitable, purpose-driven growth. You'll also be influential in shaping the UK underwriting strategy as a senior underwriting leader. As a key market figurehead, you'll build trusted broker relationships and champion our underwriting excellence across the Central and South West.
You'll be ready to make your mark and be part of a unique business."
About us
Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.
As a business, we've been trusted to protect some of the UK's best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we're not standing still. We're a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away 250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK's number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group's size.
We believe it's essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.
*Directory of Social Change's UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26

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