Underwriting Operations Project Manager

Project Manager - Underwriting Operations Governance

£850 per day Inside IR35 Contract

I'm currently recruiting for an experienced Project Manager to support a major specialty insurance organisation in strengthening and maturing its Underwriting Governance framework.

Working alongside a new Chief Underwriting Officer (CUO), the successful candidate will be responsible for taking the underwriting mandate and operationalising it across the organisation.

The objective is to create a clear, consistent and robust underwriting framework across markets, ensuring brokers and other stakeholders have clear guidance on underwriting authorities, product requirements and controls.

This is initially expected to be a c.6-month programme, with further transformation work likely to follow.

Key Responsibilities

• Operationalise the new underwriting mandate across the organisation.
• Create and cascade a clear set of underwriting authorities.
• Develop and implement product guidelines across individual markets.
• Establish appropriate underwriting controls and processes.
• Review and improve the existing product approval process.
• Ensure underwriting governance is consistently applied across different markets.
• Work with HR, Legal and other key functions to embed the required governance framework.
• Identify gaps within existing underwriting processes and implement improvements.
• Work closely with the CUO and senior underwriting stakeholders.
• Manage delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring activity is prioritised and delivered effectively.
• Support the organisation in creating a more mature, consistent and controlled underwriting operating model.

Experience Required

• Significant Project Management experience within specialty insurance - essential.
• Strong understanding of underwriting processes and governance.
• Experience working with senior underwriting stakeholders, ideally including CUO-level stakeholders.
• Proven experience delivering underwriting transformation or governance programmes.
• Experience creating or implementing underwriting authorities, mandates, controls or guidelines.
• Understanding of product approval processes within insurance.
• Experience working across multiple markets would be highly beneficial.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate confidently with senior leadership.
• Strong process, governance and operational delivery experience.
• Able to translate strategic requirements into practical, operational processes.

This role would suit someone who has previously worked on:

• Underwriting governance transformation
• Underwriting operating models
• Underwriting mandates and authorities
• Product approval frameworks
• Underwriting controls
• Specialty insurance transformation
• International insurance governance

Rate: £850 per day
IR35: Inside IR35
Contract: Initially c.6 months, with potential for further work