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- Hybrid, London
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- Full-time
- Holiday
- 29 days holiday + bank holidays
- Commute
- Cycle to work scheme
The role
Mid-market Underwriter (Motor Trade)
Are you an ambitious and driven trading underwriter, who can demonstrate recent Motor Trade experience? If you are excited about the prospect of joining a growing team, for a reputable brand like Aviva, and would love the chance to work alongside highly knowledgeable colleagues, to provide an outstanding service to our existing customers and brokers - then we'd love to hear from you!
A bit about the job
The successful candidate will collaborate closely with our brokers and customers to gain a deeper understanding of their needs, ensuring that we deliver comprehensive solutions tailored to the requirements of each customer / client. In turn, you'll showcase excellent organisation and time management skills, including managing your own diary successfully within a fast-paced environment (this will include regular face to face broker meetings).
Skills and experience we're looking for
- Previous Motor Trade underwriting experience (i.e. knowledge covering road, property and liability risks)
- Strong ability to analyse risks and communicate and present effectively to brokers and/or customers
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively within a large complex organisation
- Confident trading abilities with a broad panel of brokers and good knowledge of the FCA and other relevant regulation and legislation
- Strong commercial business acumen to create and deliver business cases
What you'll get for this role
Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.
- Competitive salary (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Competitive bonus opportunity (actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.)
- Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
- Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
- Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
- Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
- We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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Aviva is for everyone
We're inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here.
We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you've applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we'll interview you.
We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please email alice.neal@aviva.com
Hiring process
We'll contact you
With a recruiter
Once you've applied, or Aviva has found you on LinkedIn, a recruiter gets in touch to discuss your application and the specific opportunity in more detail.
We'll send a test
If you're successful at the first stage, you're invited to the next stage of the process, which could be an online test or interview. If you're unsuccessful, you're told.
You'll come to interview
Aviva agrees an interview date and time. The interview may be a one-to-one meeting or a group assessment; there may be more than one stage to this part of the process.
We'll make an offer
You'll complete screening checks · 1–2 days
You can stay in touch
With Candidate Care team
Once PES checks pass, candidates receive a 'confirmation of start date' email and can ask the Candidate Care team questions before their first day.
- Aviva interviews every disabled applicant who has the essential skills and experience for the job; tell the recruitment team about a disclosed disability after applying.
- There may be more than one stage to the interview part of the process; candidates are told in advance.
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