Property Portfolio Underwriting Manager - UK Wide

Posted: 03 October 2025

Job description

This is a new and exciting opportunity to work for leading Global Insurance company with offices throughout the UK.

They offer a wide range of general insurance products focusing around the Mid Corp & Corporate arena, providing excellent customer service to its portfolio of intermediaries within the UK.

There are looking for a Property Portfolio Underwriting Manager where you could work from any of their locations around the UK. There would be a hybrid working option.

Our clients is seeking a strong, commercially minded technical expert to lead their mid-market commercial property account, supporting continued growth of the business and delivering excellent customer outcomes.

You will be responsible for delivering the financial plan outcomes through underwriting, pricing, underwriting quality, and portfolio management leadership, underpinned and driven by a risk aware culture.

A bit about the job:

You will develop the underwriting approach to deliver enhanced performance and improved customer outcomes, driving portfolio mix and identifying areas and opportunities for profitable growth. You will achieve this through robust performance management, market pricing, rating and strong underwriting principals alongside shaping and informing commercial decisions on Profit and Loss based upon your deep insight of the business. 

You will work alongside Pricing, Chief-Underwriting-Office, Actuarial, Finance, Claims, Automation and Data Science teams who support Mid-Market and actively engage with the regional underwriting teams.

You will deliver for their customers and Brokers, working as part of a small team of technical and portfolio management experts focussed on optimising the portfolio and exploiting their underwriting strategy within Regional Mid-Market. You will provide strategic portfolio and underwriting direction and support the development of their underwriting capability.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Good experience of portfolio management & enabling business growth through technical underwriting with a commercial focus
• Strong property underwriting experience with the ability to deliver solutions to complex issues and implement underwriting strategies in an operationally effective manner, including a strong understanding of Mid-Market and the issues and challenges facing our customers
• Able to think strategically and assess the impact of changing risks over the medium term
• A strong and effective communicator and coach with experience in a leadership role and ability to manage senior stakeholders both internally and externally
• Adaptable and versatile with an ability to convey and convert complex data and strategies simply into the underwriting teams

This is a fantastic company to work for who are a real investor in their workforce with a big emphasis on wellbeing for all of their employees.

With this role the benefits are as following:-

• Competitive Salary £80K to £100K
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary
• Pension scheme contribution up to 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, buy or sell up to 5 days
• PMI
• Free company shares

For further information please contact Andy Baker on 07834 696414/0113 4931720 or email andy@cryerbaker.co.uk