Job Description

The role: Account Executive

We are seeking an experienced insurance professional to join our Contractor’s team to provide a wide range of insurance advice to service the annual programme requirements of a portfolio of existing contractor clients along with associated projects.

The Account Executive will work within a highly skilled team with unrivalled experienced in serving major construction and engineering companies.

The successful candidate will be joining a team that operates at the highest level of professionalism and insurance knowledge within their sectors, which will provide a solid platform for career development and learning within the specialty environment.

What can you expect:

• Exposure to complex annual and project specific insurance placements within the UK construction sector
• To become an important part of a close knit team of dedicated construction insurance specialists who provide an outstanding service to the construction industry
• Industry focused insurance and technical training from the markets leading construction insurance professionals
• You will work in a busy environment with an experienced and supportive team. This includes all account handling work as well as all broking, claims and placing instructions.
• You will work closely with some of our major clients, developing an in-depth knowledge of their business and managing their insurance needs as well as developing good client relationships
• You will build on your existing insurance and industry knowledge and manage relationships with our broking and claims teams along with other support colleagues
• You will participate in our ongoing team training programme as a recipient and contributor as may be appropriate

What you will be rewarded with:

Our employees enjoy excellent benefits such as:

• A competitive salary plus an excellent benefits package including pension, life assurance, private healthcare, discretionary bonus and 26 days holiday
• A wealth of career opportunities in an well-established company

We will rely on you to:

Place business:

• Collect and analyse risk information and claims data, produce underwriting submissions, review and update wordings
• Assist in planning broking strategy and broke in the UK and International markets (in conjunction with our market leading broking team) to assess the responses from insurers and prepare renewal reports to clients
• Issue documentation including agreed wordings, placing slips, endorsements, certificates, insurance manuals and minutes of meetings

Day to day service:

• Contract reviews – review of indemnity and insurance provisions of wide variety of UK construction contracts
• Site visits – meetings with operating companies
• Client presentations – primarily focused on CAR/PL/PI
• Provide technical insurance advice on a wide variety of challenges that face our clients

Claims Service

• Monitor claims progress
• Support our claims colleagues with on major / complex claims and provide advice on claims strategy and appropriate actions
• Prepare and attend claims review meetings

New Business

• Identify new business opportunities
• Assist our new business development team to secure new business

What makes you stand out:

• Contractual risk management experience
• Professional indemnity insurance experience
• A good team working ethos

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Proven insurance handling/broking experience within Corporate Clients Attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure to strict deadlines Excellent communication skills and confidence to develop strong relationships with senior level client contact points Knowledge of Annual insurance programmes Technical competence in CAR/EL/GL/ classes of insurance CII part/fully qualified (or equivalent) preferred