Portfolio Underwriter

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work. 

As a Portfolio Underwriter for the Sky Protect home insurance team, your responsibilities extend beyond traditional underwriting tasks; you're a key player in the decision-making team, leveraging your insights to drive strategic portfolio growth and development. Your contributions are instrumental in sculpting our digital, flexible, and innovative insurance offerings, ensuring they remain at the forefront of industry trends. 

What You'll Do: 

Here's where your expertise truly shines:

• Strategic Underwriting: Your role goes beyond individual policies; you're crafting the blueprint for our entire portfolio. Your decisions are informed by a comprehensive understanding of underwriting guidelines and industry best practices.
• Technical Guidance: Your expertise isn't just valuable internally; it's a guiding light for our entire team. You provide technical assistance on underwriting matters, ensuring that our decisions are grounded in sound underwriting principles.
• Policy Development: Your input into policy development is crucial. You contribute to the creation and refinement of policy wordings and documentation, ensuring that they meet the needs of our customers and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Compliance Oversight: Compliance isn't just a box to tick; it's a fundamental aspect of our operations. You work closely with the Governance Team to ensure that our underwriting practices are compliant with internal processes and regulatory requirements.
• Documentation Management: Your attention to detail ensures that our policy wordings and documentation are clear, accurate, and legally sound. You play a crucial role in ensuring that our customers understand their coverage and obligations.
• Underwriting governance and controls: You're not just following rules; you're shaping them. You assist in the development, administration, and monitoring of underwriting controls, rules and guidelines which cover key areas of technical and governance best practice, relating to underwriting, ensuring that they evolve in line with our strategic objectives.
• Adaptability: In a rapidly evolving industry, adaptability is key. You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, embracing change as an opportunity for growth and innovation.
• Cultural Alignment and attitude: You embody our culture of innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity. Your 'can-do' attitude and commitment to excellence set the standard for our team. You are required to develop and maintain good relationships within commercial team, Sky Protect and other stakeholders including insurers – built on trust, integrity, and high performance.

What You'll Bring: 

• Knowledge: You have a deep understanding of home insurance and portfolio underwriting.
• Experience: Your track record demonstrates your proficiency in portfolio management and decision-making.
• Problem-Solving: Your analytical skills and strategic mindset enable you to identify opportunities and overcome challenges.
• Rule Development: You have experience in developing, administering, and monitoring underwriting rules and guidelines.
• Analytical Acumen: You're skilled in compiling and analysing statistical data to inform strategic decisions.
• Adaptability: You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
• Cultural Alignment: Your values align with our commitment to innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity.

 The Rewards: 

There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky! Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few: 

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place 
• A generous pension package 
• Private healthcare 
• Discounted mobile and broadband 
• Access a wide range of best-in-class Sky VIP rewards and experiences 

How You'll Work: 

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our outstanding office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home. We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process. 

Your Office Base:

Osterley 

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers. 

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon. 

Inclusion: 

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more passionate about who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working. We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all,  and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can. 

Why wait? 

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you. To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.