Job Description
Key Accountabilities:
About Us
Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd's of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets.
About the Team
Westfield Specialty International Culture
Our culture is centred around three core values: Excellence, focused on high performance, agility and embracing change; Ambition, where inquisitiveness, challenge and a bold approach is encouraged; and Collaboration, delivering shared goals through collective expertise, diversity of thought and transparency. All three are underpinned by Reward & Recognition, where people are supported & respected, and success is celebrated.
Key Accountabilities:
- Underwrite Aviation War business in accordance with the business plan and within terms of
- underwriting authority.
- Monitor KPIs and exposures
- Actively participate in peer review
- Liaise with brokers, develop and strengthen relationships, attend client presentations.
- Aid in the development of UWAs and UWRs
- Work with the Class Underwriter to develop strategy and new business opportunities.
- Comprehensive understanding and experience of underwriting Aviation War
- Results driven with ability to make own decisions and work on own initiative
- Adaptable and resilient to changes in market conditions and business requirements
- Strong team player with the ability to build strong relationships quickly
- Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate clearly with internal stakeholders and external clients and brokers at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
- Administrative skills - highly organised and able to prioritise tasks effectively. Applicants should have excellent attention to detail and an ability to meet deadlines.
- Presentation skills - ability to present to clients, brokers, reinsurers and other stakeholders.
- Analytical skills - numerically literate and able to analyse basic financial and economic data.
- Compliance - ability to ensure compliance with all management and regulatory controls.
- Judgement / Decision-making skills - ability to approach problems logically and rationally and evaluate quantitative and qualitative data to make measured risk decisions.
- Relationship building - ability and confidence to establish and maintain excellent relationships with external stakeholders (such as brokers, clients, and reinsurers) in a client-facing role.
- Minimum of 7 years in the Aviation market
- Active interest in global current affairs, politics, and financial markets.
- Good IT skills - including intermediate Excel
About Us
Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd's of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets.
About the Team
Westfield Specialty International Culture
Our culture is centred around three core values: Excellence, focused on high performance, agility and embracing change; Ambition, where inquisitiveness, challenge and a bold approach is encouraged; and Collaboration, delivering shared goals through collective expertise, diversity of thought and transparency. All three are underpinned by Reward & Recognition, where people are supported & respected, and success is celebrated.