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This is an exciting opportunity to join our Real Estate team as a Real Estate Underwriter.

This is your opportunity to lead complex deals, strengthen broker partnerships, and make a visible impact in a role that’s central to our commercial success.

You’ll participate in the Allianz Global PC Academy, enhancing your skills in underwriting, risk engineering, pricing, and claims management while exchanging best practices across the Allianz Group. Allianz Insurance supports professional qualifications, such as IFoA and CII, where considered appropriate for the business and the individual.

This is a hybrid role based out of our Birmingham office, with an expectation to attend the office 2-3 days per week.

Salary Information

Pay: Circa £40,000-50,000 per year.

Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

About You

Your role will vary day to day, but here is a bit of what you can expect:

• Take ownership of major deals, using your expertise to win and retain strategic accounts that drive growth.
• Develop trusted partnerships with brokers, leveraging collaboration to unlock new opportunities and strengthen market presence.
• Represent the business confidently through face-to-face engagement, networking, and active participation in industry events.
• Support team development by guiding peers, reviewing referrals, and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality service.
• Work closely with internal departments to streamline processes and deliver seamless, client-focused solutions.
• Act as a reliable point of contact for priority clients, anticipating needs and delivering tailored, responsive support.

Essential Skills

We don't expect you to know everything from day one, but the following will enable you to hit the ground running:

• Proven expertise in commercial underwriting/assessing complex risks (Real Estate experience is desirable but not essential); if you have strong commercial underwriting or broking experience, we’d love to hear from you.
• A track record of dealing with large and/or complex risks and cases
• Proven ability to manage broker relationships that fuel growth and long-term retention
• The ability to adapt and react with a commercial mind to short notice change

Desirable Skills

• Real Estate Underwriting experience
• CII Qualified or progressing towards
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages
• Responsible Artificial Intelligence usage

What We Will Offer You

Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options
• Hybrid working
• Annual performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Development days
• A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
• Retail discounts
• Volunteering days

Our Ways of Working

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.

Inclusive Support Accessibility
At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.

If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.
Contact our Resourcing team to opt into this scheme or for any assistance with during the recruitment process including larger text, hard copies, or spoken applications.Hr-recruitment@allianz.co.uk

For any inquiries or to submit your application, please contact: Matthew Mckevitt

Closing date 11/09/26

We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.

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