Underwriter - Capacity Solutions

This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.  We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.  As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.

At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.

Underwriter - Capacity Solutions 

Job Family Grouping: 

CUO Office 

Job Family: 

Underwriting 

How does this role contribute to our collective success? 

AXIS is seeking an Underwriter within the Capacity Solutions business unit, focused on multi-line portfolio business written with brokers and MGAs. 

The successful candidate will support the underwriting assessment, onboarding, and ongoing performance monitoring of portfolio opportunities.

Working closely with the Underwriting Lead and wider functional teams, this role will play a key part in supporting the team’s growth whilst ensuring portfolio underwriting standards and effective portfolio management are maintained across new and renewal business.

This business unit is supported in its execution by a virtual team from across AXIS, including our CUO Office, Operations and Distribution.

This position reports to the Underwriting Lead - Capacity Solutions. 

What will you do in this role? 

• Support the underwriting appraisal of new and renewal portfolio opportunities. 

• Assist in gathering, analysing, and reviewing underwriting, claims, exposure, and performance data. 

• Prepare underwriting assessments, including recommendation summaries for review. 
• Liaise with product specific underwriting teams as required in both the development and appraisal of new opportunities and specific risk referrals

• Assist in managing underwriting referrals and follow-up actions. 

• Review and produce regular KPI and management reporting for underwriting and portfolio performance. 

• Monitor portfolio and account performance against business plans, risk appetite, and underwriting guidelines. 

• Support relationships with brokers and MGAs.

• Coordinate requests for information and assist in progressing opportunities through the underwriting process. 

• Support due diligence and onboarding activities

• Manage opportunity tracking and pipeline reporting. 

• Coordinate activities across all functional departments to ensure an efficient operating model for multi-line portfolio business

About You 

We encourage you to bring your own experience and expertise to the table, so while there are some qualifications and experiences, we need you to have, we are open to discussing how your individual knowledge might lend itself to fulfilling this role and help us achieve our goals. 

What you need to have 

• 5-8+ years of underwriting and/or delegated authority experience. 

• Experience analysing underwriting performance and portfolio data. 

• Strong organisational and project management skills. 

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management capabilities. 
• Experience dealing with different functions such as operations, DUA, Actuarial, Legal, Claims, and Compliance.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Self-initiated and high motivation; proactively addressing of issues

What we prefer you to have 

• Experience working with MGAs, delegated authority, or portfolio business. 

• Strong Excel and data analysis capabilities. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - ability to communicate to all stakeholders within and outside the organisation

• Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines. 

For this position, we currently expect to offer a base salary in the range of X to Y. Your salary offer will be based on an assessment of a variety of factors including your specific experience and work location. 

In addition, you will be offered competitive target incentive compensation, with awards based on overall corporate and individual performance. On top of this, you will be eligible for a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes medical plans for you and your family, health and wellness programs, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and much more.  

This posting is for an existing vacancy.