Shenley Recruitment

Shenley Recruitment Recruitment Agency with over 30 years experience recruiting for clients in London and the South East.

Key areas including Insurance, Analysis, IT, Research, eCommerce and eRetail, Legal and many others

06/02/2025

Senior Underwriter / Area Manager
Hybrid – ideally 2-3 days at one of the Southern offices which are in London, Essex or Sussex.
Salary: £65,000 to £70,000 p.a. + benefits including share options.

Our client is a Lloyds Underwriting Agency and Global Insurance group, who are looking for an experienced Senior Real Estate Underwriter or Area Manager with hands-on-the ability of managing High-end Non-Standard policies and able to support a team of 10 Underwriters across the Southern region.

This is not an operational role, 40% of the time you will be managing your own underwriting policies with high end key clients and 60% of your time will be focused on reviewing your teams’ trading results, monitoring trends and identifying opportunities as well as ensuring that your team achieve the highest results.

Duties include:
• Reviewing trading results and trends, identifying opportunities and overseeing the team.
• Evaluating the risk and exposures of customers for new business, mid-term adjustments and renewals from the company’s network of UK and Ireland brokers.
• Quoting, converting and retaining business to meet budget and underwriting performance targets for the range of specialist insurance products in the Real Estate division, facultative and sub binder distribution channels.
• Developing and growing the company’s presence, GWP and income in the Southeast by meeting or exceeding the budgeted new business and renewal retention rate for the region.
• Operationally managing a team of 11, and lead, inspire and motivate the underwriters to achieve the agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA). Building training and development for new starters and existing staff in order to increase the team’s efficiency through continual process improvement and/or continual performance improvements.
• Underwriting new business, renewal and mid-term adjustments, trading with brokers.
• Developing, building and creating new broker relationships, with regular performance visits, meetings and broker events.
• Monthly reporting to Senior Management.
• Meeting operational objectives, SLA’s and KPI’s.
• Real Estate Underwriting and taking underwriting referrals where directed.
• Monitoring, encouraging and developing individuals’ performance and competency by way of regular 121’s, coaching, underwriting training and annual Personal Development Cycle (PDC) appraisal process.
• Supporting the full range of products where required.
• Understanding and distribute MI and working with the Technical Management and Business Development teams to ensure we achieve budgeted GWP and target loss ratios.
• Perform other duties from time to time as determined by the Senior Management Team.
Key Requirements
 Previous experience working as a Senior Underwriter overseeing key clients.
 Team mentoring and management experience to ensure they achieve goals and targets.
 Cert CII qualified progressing towards Dip CII.
 Proven track record in property/real estate underwriting within an MGA, insurance company or Lloyd’s syndicate.

For further details please email your CV to [email protected]

24/01/2025

Customer Services Rep required - London SW6
Salary: £26,000 to £27,000 p.a.
Shift Pattern:
Monday – at the office 9am to 5:30pm (1 hour for lunch)
Tuesday – at the office 9am to 1pm (Half Day)
Wednesday – at the office 9am to 5:30pm (1 hour for lunch)
Thursday – at the office 9am to 5:30pm (1 hour for lunch)
Friday – work from home 9am to 5:30-pm (1 hour for lunch)
Half day on a weekend (work from home) – flexible.
Please note that the half day at the weekend is to check emails and live chat and respond if required, you will not be working a full day.

You must have experience of online customer services and be happy to work the above shifts for a company involved in betting.

For further details please email your CV to [email protected]

08/01/2025

Chefs required for Battle and St Leonards.
Wednesday to Sunday - daytimes hours only
Salary £27K to £35K p.a.

For vacancy details please contact [email protected] or call Shenley Recruitment on 01424 732 775

06/01/2025

Junior Office Administrator
Hours: 9am - 5pm
Salary: £28,800 p.a.
Contract: 1 year contract
London N1 (Shoreditch) - Fully Office Based

Our client is involved in legal services working with Legal firms internationally on research projects. They are looking for an individual that enjoys admin and likes to work as part of a team, you must have good organisational and computer skills to assist in their office admin and digital mailroom admin. You will be working as part of the Office Admin Team based 100% in the office, providing an effective and efficient administrative service to the office.

Responsibilities:
• Primary responsibility for managing paper records in the London office.
• Case field retrieval, file library management, document filing and digitalisation of records.
• Opening, scanning, and distributing of incoming mail.
• Processing of outgoing mail with the help of an in-house mail despatch system.
• Ordering stationery and office supplies, cleaning supplies and recycling bags for the offices.
• Assisting with courier deliveries, preparing packages for collection and logging, and distributing incoming deliveries.
• Preparing marketing packs for customers/clients, events, and local representatives.
• Any other additional duties appropriate to the post as requested by the Office Manager, internal staff, or Senior Management.

Requirements:
• Basic admin skills.
• Someone who wants to progress as an administrator and is happy with menial clerical duties.
• Good computer skills including MsWord and Excel.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Confidential.
• Consistent and organised approach to work.
• Team player, able to contribute to the effectiveness of the team.
• Excellent time management and punctuality.

If you would like to be considered for this role please email your CV to [email protected] and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.

20/12/2024

URGENT VACANCY

Kitchen Manager - TN34
£35,000 p.a.
Daytime Hours.

For more information please call 01424 732775 or email [email protected]

10/12/2024

Head Chef/Kitchen Manager
Salary: £33,000 to £35,000 p.a.
Battle, East Sussex
40 hours per week: 8:00am to 4:30pm/5:30pm April to October and 8:30am to 4pm November to March – will include weekend and bank holiday shifts when required.

Based in Battle, East Sussex, this popular site offers homemade food from locally sourced ingredients requires an experienced Chef with knowledge of managing a kitchen brigade.

You will be responsible for:
• Menu ideas and suggestions.
• Managing a kitchen brigade of 10 staff in total over a full week who are a mixture of permanent and zero hours, spread over the shifts.
• Producing breakfast and lunches together with homemade soups, cakes, pastries and desserts.
• Ensuring the kitchen area is clean.
• Maintaining health and safety at all times.

Benefits:
• Free parking available.
• Staff discount on food and retail products.
• Company pension.
• 28 days holiday.

Requirements
• Experience working as a Cook/Chef within a café/restaurant environment essential.
• Experience of kitchen team management.
• An understanding of health and safety.
• Excellent customer services skills.

10/12/2024

Non Standard Household Underwriter
Hybrid – two days from the Basildon office
Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 p.a. + bonus + benefits including share options.

Fantastic Opportunity for experienced Trading Underwriter with non-standard underwriting experience required for the Household division of this highly successful global insurance group and Lloyd’s underwriting agency. You will work Hybrid from their office in Basildon. Great promotional prospects.

The role of the underwriting department is to evaluate the risk and exposures of customers for new business, mid-term adjustments and renewals from a network of brokers in the UK and Ireland. Quoting, converting and retaining business to meet budget and underwriting performance targets for the range of specialist insurance products in the company’s Household division.

Duties
• Underwrite in accordance with the company’s Internal Underwriting Guide and the Underwriting authority awarded.
• Trade with Brokers to maximise conversion and retention within your authority.
• Monthly reporting to Line Manager.
• Renewal/Existing and New Business Control.
• Take underwriting referrals from other offices, when outside individuals level of authority.
• Understand/support and drive income, conversion and retention objectives.
• Conduct Peer Reviews as allocated and as per PP003 – UNDERWRITING PEER REVIEW PROCESS.
• Assist in the development of new and existing products.
• Deal with incoming enquiries from clients, insurers and other third parties in a professional and timely manner.
• To underwrite taking all necessary care to protect the interest of our capacity providers.
• Carry out macro underwriting tasks as required.
• Perform other duties from time to time as determined by the management.

Experience Required
• Previous Underwriting experience within an MGA, insurance company or Lloyds Syndicate.
• Household Underwriting experience.
• Understanding of underwriting various policies.
• CII certificate ideal but not essential.

For more information please call 01424 732775 or email [email protected]

27/11/2024

JOBS AVAILABLE IN INSURANCE

Real Estate Underwriters
Trading Underwriters
Non Standard Underwriters
C£40,000 p.a + bonus + shares
Hybrid from London, Manchester, East Sussex, Kent or Essex

Regional Real Estate Underwriter- South East Region
c£70,000 p.a + bonus + shares
Hybrid from Brighton, Basildon or London office

28/10/2024

Regional Trading Manager - Real Estate Underwriting

Hybrid from either Moorgate, Central London or Basildon, Essex office (1-2 days in the office)
Salary: £60,000 to £65,000 p.a. + benefits including share options.

Experienced real estate underwriting trading manager required for highly successful global insurance group and Lloyd’s underwriting agency.

You will be responsible for driving profitable growth, particularly through Mid-Market and corporate clients, in the real estate segment by underwriting risks within agreed authority levels to maximise income whilst developing key relationships with a panel of brokers in line with company objectives. Duties include: -

· Underwrite new and existing business profitably, accurately, consistently and in line with established underwriting practices.
· Proactively lead the development of strong trading relationships with panel of brokers within the South of England, taking full ownership for the generation of profitable business from nominated panel and delivering training where necessary.
· Develop a robust pipeline of appropriate new business opportunities and ensure that long-term pipeline is realised by ensuring broker and client engagement in line with underwriting guidelines.
· Lead meetings, presentations and tender responses with brokers and end customers to promote the company’s services and secure new business opportunities.
· Provide technical and trading input to improve the quality of decisions within their empowerment.
· Managing and reporting on the teams regional activities and sales.
· Making operational changes in order to meet financial objectives.
· Actively manage and review underwriting standards and licences within the team ensuring effective management and deployment of empowerment.
· Managing daily workflow and people management for a team of results driven Real Estate /Trading Underwriters.
· Effectively promote and deploy company strategies, product ranges, propositions, and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities.

Experience Required:
· At least 2 years in similar role.
· Strong background in commercial underwriting with Real Estate underwriting.
· Strong Trading expertise.
· Good communication skills.
· Ability to achieve results and manage strong relationships.



For further details please email [email protected]

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