Senior Legal Indemnity

Senior Legal Indemnity Underwriter –

Ready to do more than just underwrite risks?

Want to influence new products, shape underwriting strategy and play a key role in business growth?

What’s On Offer? £60,000–£70,000 basic salary + discretionary bonus up to 10%

Alongside the opportunity to make a genuine commercial impact, you’ll receive an excellent benefits package:

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service.
• Additional paid day off for your birthday.
• 5% employer pension contribution (5% employee contribution).
• Life assurance – 4 times salary.
• Holiday Purchase Scheme.
• Vitality Essentials Healthcare.
• Remote GP service.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Discounted Gift Card Scheme.
• Pension Adviser Meeting.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Legal Indemnity Underwriter to join an ambitious specialist insurance business where your expertise, ideas and commercial insight will genuinely make a difference.

This isn’t just another underwriting role. You’ll have the opportunity to influence new product development, underwriting appetite, pricing strategy and commercial growth, while working on complex, high-value risks and building relationships with key clients and insurers.
If you’re looking for greater influence, variety and the opportunity to make your mark, this could be the perfect next move.
What You’ll Be Doing

• Shape new products – contribute to the development of new insurance products, underwriting solutions and opportunities to expand into new markets.
• Influence underwriting strategy – help develop underwriting appetite, pricing structures and commercially focused solutions.
• Handle complex risks – take ownership of high-value and technically challenging legal indemnity cases, exercising delegated authority.
• Drive business growth – identify commercial opportunities, improve conversion and support profitable premium growth.
• Build key relationships – work closely with brokers, insurers and clients, becoming a trusted technical and commercial partner.
• Be the technical expert – act as a senior referral point, sharing your knowledge and mentoring less experienced Underwriters.
• Make a real impact – collaborate with senior stakeholders to improve processes, develop innovative solutions and influence the future direction of the underwriting function.

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in Legal Indemnity Insurance underwriting, including complex commercial risks.
• Strong technical knowledge of defective title insurance.
• Experience working with delegated underwriting authority.
• A commercially minded Underwriter who can balance risk with business opportunity.
• Confidence dealing with brokers, insurers and senior stakeholders.
• Someone who enjoys finding solutions, challenging existing approaches and contributing fresh ideas.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and decision-making skills.

Experience in probate, estate administration or other specialist insurance products would be advantageous.

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who wants to contribute, innovate and help shape what’s next.

Additional Benefits After Probation

• Gym membership or cycling subscription.
• Vitality Full Healthcare, with the option to include your partner and dependants living at the same address.
• Medical Cash Plan, with the option to include a partner.
• Electric Vehicle Scheme.

Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am–5:30pm (one-hour unpaid lunch break).

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time.

Location:  Remote ( outside Kent) 
Why Make the Move? If you’re an experienced Legal Indemnity Underwriter who feels ready for more influence, more commercial involvement and the opportunity to help develop new products, this role offers exactly that.

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