Director of Underwriting

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Director of Underwriting

Department: Underwriting

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK (London)

Description

Director of Underwriting

London

Hybrid, two days in office

Permanent / full-time

We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd's, Europe and North America.

This year, we started building out our prospective insurance capability. Reporting to the Managing Director of Underwriting, this brand-new opportunity will suit a hands-on underwriting leader to help shape and execute our next phase of growth.

Responsibilities

This is a deal-focused role in a fast-paced environment. You'll lead the underwriting and execution of reinsurance transactions - working closely with brokers, clients, actuaries, lawyers and internal stakeholders to get transactions structured, negotiated and closed.

We're looking for someone who enjoys being close to the detail: structuring deals, negotiating contracts, managing advisers and driving transactions through to completion. You'll play a key role in building relationships across the market and helping grow our prospective business in a practical, delivery-focused way.

Candidate requirements
• Right to work in this location
• Strong experience underwriting and structuring reinsurance and/or M&A transactions
• Deep understanding of the P&C market and structured deals
• Confidence negotiating with brokers and clients
• Solid financial and analytical capability (modelling and valuation experience preferred)
• Ability to manage multiple transactions under tight timelines
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.

Benefits

Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.

As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.

• Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.

Why join us?

At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.

To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.

We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.

Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
• competitive salary & annual bonus
• a health & wellbeing subsidy (GBP 20 per month) (from Day 1)
• a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
• private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
• life assurance (from Day 1)
• income protection (from Day 1)
• 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
• cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
• season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
• electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• hybrid working
• employee socials and recognition programme