Job Description:
**Underwriter Environmental**
Madrid, Spain
AXA XL provides Integrated Environmental Risk Management tailored solutions combing underwriting, risk engineering and specialized claims management. A pioneer in the environmental insurance marketplace, AXA XL provides attentive service, environmental expertise, quality products and a long-term commitment to the marketplace.
Joining AXA XL as Underwriter you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients to provide an innovative and bespoke underwriting service.
In your underwriting role you will be responsible for writing new and renewal business for an allocated range of clients across the book, working with brokers and clients in support of the profitable growth of a portfolio in line with the agreed Business Plan, as well as developing high quality levels of relationships with brokers, clients and internal functions.
- This is a regulated role under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity regime._
**What you’ll be DOING**
What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Calculating appropriate risk premium by considering the risk costs inherent to the sector, reinsurance cessions as well as the Underwriting and general administration costs while ensuring profitability.
- Proactively advising, assisting, servicing, and following up with clients on insurance and risk management matters to ensure satisfaction and fulfillment of their insurance requirements.
- Effective relationship management to initiate opportunities for cross-selling offered products and ensuring account retention.
- Controlling timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to quality standards.
- Supporting the business planning and forecasting process; monitoring financial exposure within outlined limits; monitoring premium income to ensure it remains within set limits.
- Maintaining awareness of all claims advised while supporting and providing input on settlement of claims.
You will report to the Underwriting Manager Environmental, Spain
**What you will BRING**
We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
- Good industry knowledge and awareness of factors affecting this market
- Communicate and work in Spanish and English
- Experience of underwriting in Environmental/Liability or related line of business will be highly considered
- Business developer, passionate about doing business, negotiating and driving growth in a dynamic market
- Outstanding negotiation skills, understands stakeholders’ needs and concerns, explore different alternatives and influence the other parties to reach an agreement with positive outcomes for all.
- Analytical thinking, performing fact and data-based analyses of situations or issues.
- Work in team with colleagues of different seniority and expertise to achieve collective goals.
**Who WE are**
AXA XL, the P&C; and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.
How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
With an innovative and versátil approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
**What we OFFER**
**Inclusion**
AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. _It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed._
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
**Total Rewards**
AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.
We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.
**Sustainability**
At AXA XL, Sustai