Salary: Starting from £27,000, depending on experience
Location: UK - Newcastle
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Role Purpose

Our Sunderland Marine team is offering a unique opportunity to apply your administrative skills and attention to detail in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. As Underwriting Executive, you’ll be responsible for handling member accounts within the sector, including issuance of documentation and maintaining service levels. As a key liaison for the team, you’ll ensure data accuracy, regulatory compliance, and smooth day-to-day operations.

What will you be doing?

Key Responsibilities

General

  • Following rules, procedures and guidelines of the company and operate within authority levels, as stipulated.
  • As account handler, responsible for documentation and maintaining relationships with the member/broker/policyholder for allocated accounts.
  • Setting up and maintaining accurate data entries for the member/broker/policyholder in all parts of the underwriting system.
  • Producing prompt and accurate entry documentation to provide evidence of insurance for new attachments and new members.
  • Issuing of blue cards in accordance with the relevant Convention.
  • Producing the documentation necessary for members to comply with MLC.
  • Ensuring approval of documentation is obtained, as required before sending externally.
  • Sending documentation externally to member/broker/policyholder as applicable.
  • Where vessels are cancelled or withdrawn, updating records to issue appropriate documentation and advice of cancellation to appropriate third parties.
  • Acknowledging notification of cancellations within prescribed timescales, subject to the appropriate approval.
  • Carrying out sanction checks and ensure they are carried out and filed in accordance with the procedures.
  • Clearing sanctions matches and perform batch checks as required.
  • Ensuring timely and effective administration of underwriting systems and databases to support the Underwriting team including setting up clauses, organisations, ports, vessel types, adding brokers and ensuring that templates are updated.
  • Carrying out production of reports and data analysis, including exception reports.
  • Ensuring data is accurate and regular checks and reviews are carried out in line with data policies and guidelines.
  • Acknowledging member/broker/policyholder instructions relating to MTA’s, within prescribed timescales and subject to the appropriate approval.

Renewal

  • Updating the underwriting systems with renewal terms changes and produce all relevant documentation appropriate to the entry.
  • Obtaining approval of documentation before sending externally, as required.

Miscellaneous

  • Working with other departments such as Claims, Finance, Compliance and IT to ensure excellent customer service.

About You

Skills/Qualifications/Experience

Essential

  • Educated to at least GCSE/A-Level or equivalent
  • IT Literate with the ability to quickly adapt to new systems
  • Efficient and effective administration skills
  • Communicates effectively
  • Good planning and organisational skills with the ability to cope with demanding workloads
  • Ability to work as part of a team

The Company

Welcome to NorthStandard, one of the largest and most influential marine insurers in the International Group. 

We're more than just a workplace. We're a global community of passionate maritime professionals driven and defined by our empowered, inquisitive, courageous and giving principles, and our commitment to excellence. 

We believe in fostering a diverse, inclusive and dynamic work environment where everyone can be themselves, thrive, and contribute their unique talents to delivering our best for colleagues, members, customers, and the communities we serve.  

You will be empowered to focus on your progression, have access to development opportunities designed to fast-track your career from the day you start, and the ability to contribute to and shape our employee experience. In return, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, while benefitting from a hybrid approach in our collaborative office spaces around the world.

We’re committed to continuous learning and development, building long-lasting internal and external relationships, and driving service excellence.

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  • Innovation

We are creative and fearless in our work.

  • Accountability

We take ownership of our work and lead from the front.

  • Teamwork

We collaborate widely and build supportive environments.

The Company

Welcome to NorthStandard, one of the largest and most influential marine insurers in the International Group. 

We're more than just a workplace. We're a global community of passionate maritime professionals driven and defined by our empowered, inquisitive, courageous and giving principles, and our commitment to excellence. We believe in fostering a diverse, inclusive and dynamic work environment where everyone can be themselves, thrive, and contribute their unique talents to delivering our best for colleagues, members, customers, and the communities we serve.

You will be empowered to focus on your progression, have access to development opportunities designed to fast-track your career from the day you start, and the ability to contribute to and shape our employee experience. In return, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, while benefitting from a hybrid approach in our collaborative office spaces around the world.

We’re committed to continuous learning and development, building long-lasting internal and external relationships, and driving service excellence.

The usual stuff

A competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus plan and benefit arrangements for everyone.

Flexible working

We offer a best in market hybrid working policy and are open to considering a range of flexible opportunities. This includes job-sharing, part-time roles and remote working.

Taking care of you

Our people are the most important part of our club and we constantly strive for our culture and working environment to show how much we value the contribution you make. We do this through our Employee Resource Groups, learning and development opportunities, inclusive policies and our Employee Assistance Programmes.

Social events

We host a range of get-togethers throughout the year as we believe that bringing our people together is a great way to motivate each other, inspire success, and build a stronger foundation for the cub.

Empowered

By being trusted, inspired and developed

Giving

Showing we care by sharing our attention, experience and expertise

Courageous

Challenging relentlessly to create better outcomes

Inquisitive

Embracing diverse perspectives and fresh possibilities

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