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Marine Delegated Portfolio Underwriter - Chaucer Group

Chaucer GroupLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 12 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive innovation in a market-leading international team, developing your expertise in delegated portfolio management and building strong client relationships. You'll thrive here if you are a skilled underwriter with a passion for marine insurance and a desire to contribute to significant portfolio development. Apply now to join a dynamic environment with excellent potential for career growth.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

The Marine Delegated Portfolio Underwriter will work within the marine underwriting team, specifically implementing and managing their successful delegated authority business in this specialist class as well as supporting daily internal stakeholder and external coverholder relationships. This is a dynamic market leading international team that wants to continue to innovate marine portfolio development and new commercial outcomes.

Job Description
  1. Managing the full suite of delegated portfolio processes including initial setup, weekly management and renewal. This will include risk governance, assessment, data and portfolio analytics, compliance and regulatory oversight and relationship oversight.
  2. Agreement of endorsements / amendments / promised lines in accordance with underwriting authority.
  3. Agreement of special acceptances and referrals to binding authorities, line-slips and treaties.
  4. Build on existing and develop new long term client relationships including where appropriate foreign travel.
  5. Build strong market peer group reputation.
  6. Participating on and where appropriate chairing special projects as and when required in order to meet Chaucer’s long term objectives.
  7. To interpret, prepare and analyse underwriting data to provide comprehensive modelling information to support the underwriting process.
  8. Ensure underwriting records are properly recorded and updated, including client files.
  9. Contribute to the successful implementation of business segmentation monitoring / management to allow the team to pursue optimal portfolio strategy.
  10. Responsibility for the accuracy and upkeep of all written premium data on Chaucer systems for all risks written within the area of responsibility.
  11. Liaise with other business areas within Chaucer as required to ensure effective management of the account including the delegated underwriting team, credit control, compliance, claims, exposure management, internal risk review and actuarial functions

Regulatory Responsibilities

Comply with all policies and procedures and ensure that due regard is paid to providing good customer outcomes and the fair treatment of customers.

Manage the relationships with Customers, Agents and Service Providers

Skills and Competencies
  1. Delegated Underwriting experience specific to the Lloyd’s London Market
  2. Experience of negotiating with brokers and liaising with clients.
  3. Understanding of business planning process.
  4. Organised and able to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities
  5. Able to communicate with different levels and is adaptable
  6. Resilient and able to work in a pressured environment
  7. Works as part of a team

Education
  1. ACII Qualification (or equivalent), or making good progress towards completion

ABOUT US

Chaucer is a leading insurance group at Lloyd’s, the world’s specialist insurance market. We help protect industries around the world from the risks they face. Our customers include major airlines, energy companies, shipping groups, global manufacturers and property groups.

Our headquarters are in London, and we have international offices in Bermuda, Copenhagen, Dubai and Singapore to be closer to our clients across the world. To learn more about us please visit our website.

Skills

Compliance
Underwriting

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