Marine Leisure Portfolio Underwriter - Outside IR35 Contract

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday Duration: 6 month Outside IR35 contract Location: Remote About the role Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Marine Leisure Portfolio Underwriter to join us on a 6 month Outside IR35 contract on a remote basis. As Portfolio Underwriter, you will lead the profitable development and strategic oversight of our new Marine Leisure account, playing a key role in supporting the delivery of the UKGI Plan. Why join us? Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group — where all profits go to charity and good causes. What you'll be doing Lead the independent oversight and performance management of a Marine Leisure portfolio under delegated authority arrangements. Deliver data-driven portfolio analysis and reporting, including development of dashboards and KPI frameworks to monitor performance, profitability, and exposure. Provide strategic recommendations on portfolio optimisation, identifying risks and opportunities and advising senior stakeholders on corrective and growth actions. Establish and maintain effective governance and oversight frameworks for MGA relationships, including performance reviews, audit protocols, and reporting structures. Conduct independent review of underwriting practices, ensuring compliance with delegated authority agreements, underwriting standards, and regulatory requirements. Produce recommendations for underwriting appetite, pricing strategies, product design, and policy wordings based on analytical insights and market developments. Collaborate with pricing, finance, and actuarial functions to inform pricing reviews, reserving inputs, and financial performance evaluation. Perform audit analysis and remediation planning, including identifying root causes and implementing improvement actions to enhance underwriting quality and outcomes. Provide technical expertise and advisory support to stakeholders, acting as a specialist in Marine Leisure insurance and delegated authority business. Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and regulatory developments, delivering actionable insight to support business planning and proposition development. Contribute to the design and evolution of the Marine Leisure product proposition, ensuring alignment with customer value, market demand, and commercial objectives. Support stakeholder engagement across brokers, partners, and business units by providing subject matter expertise and insight-led recommendations. What you'll need to have Deep technical underwriting knowledge, ideally in Marine or Specialty Lines. Proven experience in portfolio management or underwriting within a delegated authority or MGA environment. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and make strategic recommendations. Understanding of regulatory and compliance frameworks in insurance. Experience of influencing senior stakeholders within underwriting and wider business areas Practical experience of the ability to quickly implement new initiatives The ability to build and manage co-operative and productive relationships What makes you stand out ACII Qualified or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale Experience of launching or managing new insurance products. Familiarity with MGA governance and oversight frameworks. Project Management Experience About us Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK. As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more. Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size. We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better. At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone. If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know. *Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26 Apply To This Job