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Underwriting Manager for the Hiscox Insurance retail PSC Professional Indemnity products.Key responsibilities include creating and implementing the underwriting vision, strategy and appetite for the Professional Indemnity products. Driving both top and bottom-line performance for the retail business - to achieve consistent, long term profitable growth. Underwriting guidance, training and development and Product design and development.

Colchester, United Kingdom

Underwriting Manager for both Commercial and Private Clients. Responsible for setting underwriting strategy, book mix, underwriting standards, case referrals, training and development, and bottom line performance of the book.

London, United Kingdom

Underwriting lead within the leadership team of a multi-million-pound re-platforming programme, which has successfully implemented a new policy, underwriting and claims system into multiple channels.My responsibilities included the technical design of our compelling commercial insurance proposition, designed to achieve our growth and profitability targets in multiple channels. Ensuring our new products are scalable, adaptable to change and underpin our strategy of being a leading digital insurer.I was also responsible for the policy migration strategy from our legacy system into our new proposition and platform, now successfully completed with very strong results.

Colchester, United Kingdom

Created the framework for our first formal eTrading strategy, including analysis of our broker panel and their technology platforms, vendor comparison and creating a pipeline of eTrading opportunities. Represented Hiscox at the Insurance Times Underwriter Clinic to debate what it is to be a Digital Insurer. Delivered our first full cycle professional indemnity product on a third party platform (Acturis). The project was a success being successfully delivered on time and on budget.

Colchester, United Kingdom

Senior underwriting responsible for analysing new scheme opportunities to establish projected profitability and build compelling propositions for customers to ensure we achieved profitable growth. I worked with a wide range of bespoke products, outside standard appetite.

Colchester, United Kingdom

Technical manager for the twenty underwriters in the Hiscox Underwriting Centre. This was a great opportunity to work with underwriting management and to take on more responsibility for the teams underwriting quality and included reviewing underwriter authority, progression, underwriting audits, training and reviewing the underwriting across the team continuing to work with the rest of the management team to build a true centre of underwriting excellence.

Colchester, United Kingdom

This role was a Team leader role in the Hiscox Underwriting Centre in Colchester, a critical part of the UK business focusing on servicing existing clients. I managed a small team of underwriters who were responsible for the Professional Indemnity and Commercial business written accross the UK. This role included being accountable for service levels, performance reviews, training and day to day administration of the team. I also continued to underwrite professionas and commercial business.

Witham, Essex

Account handler within the Fiduciary Accounting department of ReSolutions, a subsidiary of Guy Carpenter & Co. My main activities included reconciliation, dealing with queries, investigation work on our ledgers (including legacy systems), rendering payable statements and receiving/remitting funds.

Sudbury, Suffolk

London, United Kingdom

As part of my degree I undertook a paid placement year in the Systems Implementation department of this management and IT consultancy. My duties included research on competitors and what services they were currently offering including CRM and interactive media and had to present my findings via reports and presentations. I also undertook several small projects involving Flash, Visual Basic and Microsoft Office Applications including Access and Excel. Specifically, I redesigned the departments training database in order to make it more efficient and automatically generate reports.

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Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science & Business

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