Summary

To support the Team as a whole and facilitate the management of workloads and a team of underwriters, brokers and administrators overseeing the policy administration of Commercial and personal lines insurance policies. To ensure that best practice is adhered to and ensuring the department are working within SLA’s and agreed binding authority agreements.

Key Responsibilities

• Adhere to all company policies and procedures.
• Continuously identify areas for improvement and provide potential solutions to the company and reduce costs.
• Daily organisation of workloads within the Team to ensure that deadlines and SLA’s are met in accordance with company policies and any agreed binding authority agreements.
• Supporting the Team to create an efficient, customer focused culture achieving Team service levels and objectives.
• Assist with the Management, Training and Development of the Team.
• Review MI, statistics and QC feedback; provide feedback to the employees in line with CG and carrier requirements and provide suggestions for change from the root cause analysis.
• Hold regular meetings with Team Members.
• Lead by example and to demonstrate excellent customer service skills so as to provide a high standard of internal and external customer contact including taking calls if required and quoting or making adjustments to the appropriate risks within your granted authority limits.
• Attend meetings when required with external companies including client prospects along with new and existing customers.
• Ensure the team are aware of and comply with all relevant legislative requirements, including financial services regulations, GDPR, and complaints procedures.
• Ensure there is fairness to our customers through procedures, whilst ensuring clear communication with both our internal and external customers, people and partners.

Product and Technical Knowledge          

• Technical knowledge of the Clegg Gifford Motor & commercial product range, including understanding of the coverage provisions, exclusions, and conditions of the policy wordings.
• An understanding of the legal principles of insurance and insurance contracts including Clegg Gifford’s obligations to insurers.

Skills and Competencies

• Competent in Windows Word, Excel and Outlook
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Manage time effectively; ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Strong leadership qualities
• Excellent timekeeping and presentation of self and work
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills
• Articulate & Numerate
• Significant focus on delivery of a first-class customer experience
• Works with a high degree of accuracy in all tasks
• Highly organised with an ability to prioritise and deliver allocated risks
• Honesty, integrity, reputation, competence/capability & financial soundness as required under the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) and Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC)
• Be positive, enthusiastic, and motivational about what you do!

Experience

• Must have experience working in a broking or underwriting Environment
• Supervisory or management experience an advantage

Qualifications

• CII qualification or working to obtain the qualification