Branch Underwriting Manager - Leeds/Newcastle

Posted: 23 September 2025

Job description

A new exciting opportunity has arisen due to a person retiring within the business. This is with a Global insurance company where you will be responsible for their Leeds and Newcastle regional offices.

This is a forward-thinking insurer who has made a great impact in the regions and where they are growing in a very positive direction.

You will be responsible for:-

• Deliver planned underwriting result through underwriting account management financial planning, account monitoring and analysis of underwriting trends.
• Take responsibility for profitability, underwriting governance and control of all business traded through the Branch.
• Demonstrate loss ratio control by effectively implementing and monitoring underwriting controls.
• Build a reputation as an underwriting expert and build confidence in the Branch’s underwriting capability.
• Set and monitor underwriting standards across the Branch ensuring effective management and deployment of empowerment, whilst creating clarity for underwriters seeking to progress through licence levels.
• Coach and develop underwriting staff, fostering a culture of high performance.
• Lead teams to deliver upon financial KPI’s including New Business, Retention, Rate, Pipeline and GWP.
• Lead underwriting relationships with key customers and brokers.
• Role model good decision-making behaviours, on technical and trading issues, that sets the tone to deliver strategic objectives.
• Manage the underwriting team through effective performance management to continuously develop the capabilities of the Branch.

Experience required: -

• Previous experience of working at a senior level within a commercial insurance environment.
• Sound understanding of insurance market and processes.
• Excellent relationship management skills and experience of building successful long-term relationships both internally and externally.
• People and resource management skills and the ability to lead and motivate teams.
• Pragmatic decision-making ability with good analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Long and short-term planning and analytical skills with proven experience of both operational and strategic planning.
• Experience in decision making on a wide range of technical underwriting scenarios, including large case and portfolio management within a Commercial environment.
• Technical underwriting expertise in a commercial insurance environment.
• Understanding of the profitability of business within the intermediary channel.
• ACII qualifications are desirable.

This great opportunity which could suit someone wanting to make the next step up from a Senior Underwriter, or Deputy Regional Underwriter where it offers excellent prospects to develop your career and progress further within the company.

• This position comes with a very attractive basic salary, bonus, pension 12%, 28 days holiday – buy or sell 5 days, car allowance, PMI plus other additional benefits.

For further information please contact Andy Baker on 07834 596414 or email andy@cryerbaker.co.uk