Senior Underwriting Manager CE&E
Leeds, GB, LS1 4DL Manchester, GB, M1 1RG Birmingham, GB, B37 7ET Glasgow, SCT, GB, G2 5UT
Role Description
You will lead regional delivery of underwriting and product strategy, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution that drives profitable growth and strong portfolio performance. This is a senior leadership role with significant impact across UK Markets, developing people leaders while embedding underwriting excellence into day-to-day operations.
Location: This role is based in our Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds or Birmingham office, please note that this is a hybrid working role with the expectation to attend the office 2-3 days a week.
Salary Information
Pay is dependent on experience, skills and location and is part of our total reward package.
About You
•Implement and embed product and underwriting strategy across your teams, ensuring alignment to appetite, standards and authority
•Monitor portfolio and account performance, identifying trends, risks and opportunities and recommending actions
•Partner with Distribution to support go-to-market delivery, providing technical insight and underwriting assurance
•Act as a senior referral point, ensuring adherence to underwriting standards, governance and escalation processes
•Lead and develop Product Underwriting Managers, driving performance, engagement and succession planning
•Build a culture of accountability, technical excellence and continuous improvement across underwriting teams
•Work with Underwriting Enablement to embed training, tools and frameworks, identifying capability gaps and development needs
•Support and embed continuous improvement and change initiatives into business-as-usual underwriting operations
•Translate product and underwriting intent into effective regional execution and performance insight
•Ensure underwriting discipline supports strong customer outcomes and sustainable financial performance
Essential Skills
•Senior technical underwriting expertise with authority to act as a referral point for complex risks
•Strong analytical capability to interpret portfolio, KPI and performance data and provide actionable insight
•Deep understanding of underwriting standards, appetite, governance and regulatory requirements
•Proven ability to apply underwriting controls consistently and understand commercial impacts on performance
•Strong technical knowledge of policy wordings, clauses and non-standard covers
•Experience leading leaders, developing capability and driving team performance
•Ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across underwriting, product and distribution
•Strong communication skills, translating strategy into clear, practical delivery
•Ability to operate effectively in complex, changing environments while maintaining control and performance
Desirable Skills
•ACII qualification (or working towards) and relevant underwriting accreditations
•Experience supporting product development, segmentation and improvement activity
•Proven track record delivering portfolio performance improvement and underwriting excellence
•Experience embedding change into live underwriting environments
•Exposure to multi-product or complex underwriting structures
•Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage
What We Will Offer You
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
•Flexible buy/sell holiday options
•Hybrid working
•Annual performance related bonus
•Contributory pension scheme
•Development days
•A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
•Retail discounts
•Volunteering days
Our Ways of Working
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
Integrity, Fairness, Inclusion & Trust
At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.
We embrace neurodiversity and welcome applications from neurodivergent and disabled candidates, offering tailored adjustments to ensure your success.
We encourage our employees to advocate for their needs, whether it’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, mentoring, coaching, or flexible work arrangements.
Accessible Application for All
As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we support candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions through the Offer an Interview Scheme, for those meeting the essential skills for the role.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for assistance with your application, including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.
For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Aoife Magee
Closing date: 08/07/2026
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
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