Overall Job Purpose
The jobholder is responsible for developing and managing underwriting activities in accordance with the company’s underwriting policy and standards so as to meet and exceed customers and
shareholders’ expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage staff and resources, provide direction, set goals and ensure the department goals are attained.
- Overseeing the activities of underwriting in the company.
- Vetting all risks to ensure that only quality business is accepted into the company at acceptable rates to ensure profitability and achievement of the set loss ratio targets.
- Implementing the underwriting strategy, philosophy, policies and procedures.
- Ensure achievement of the agreed renewals retention targets.
- Ensuring that the risks undertaken by the company are adequately covered through reinsurance programmes.
- To manage relationships with clients, intermediaries and service providers to ensure agreed service level agreements are achieved and goodwill with all stakeholders is maintained.
- Supervision, appraisal, training and development of staff in the department.
- Ensuring timely preparation of reports.
- Bachelors of Commerce degree (insurance option preferred). MBA is an added advantage.
- Professional qualification in Insurance (ACII )
- Eight (8) years underwriting insurance experience with at least three (3) years in supervisory level
- Dynamic, mature and self-driven leader
- Mentor, coach, manager who will deliver results
- Excellent analytical skills
- Good report writing skills
- Good underwriting/technical skills
- Well versed with operations
- Good leadership and interpersonal skills
- Quality and efficiency of service delivery
- Quality of business or underwriting results
- Business retention target
- Loss ratio target
Key Skills/Specialization:
Bachelors of Commerce degree (insurance option preferred); MBA is an added advantage; ACII
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