Our client is seeking an experienced Wholesale Manager to lead the continued growth of a specialist Financial Lines portfolio while playing a key role in developing a delegated underwriting authority model.
This position combines technical expertise, team leadership, business development, and underwriting oversight. It offers the opportunity to build and scale a profitable Professional Indemnity portfolio while strengthening market relationships and developing a high-performing team.
The delegated underwriting authority will initially focus on Construction Professional Indemnity risks, including Design & Construct, Architects, Engineers, and Surveyors, with scope to expand into additional sectors over time.
This role suits a commercially driven insurance professional who enjoys remaining close to trading activity while leading performance and long-term strategic growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Financial Lines portfolio, with a primary focus on Professional Indemnity supported by Cyber and related products.
- Deliver new business and renewal growth aligned to agreed business targets.
- Develop and execute a clear growth strategy balancing underwriting discipline, pricing strategy, market opportunity, and portfolio sustainability.
- Expand into new sectors and risk categories as insurer appetite and portfolio growth develops.
- Take ownership of a delegated underwriting authority model, ensuring governance, compliance, underwriting standards, and operational delivery.
- Act as a key underwriting and trading lead across Professional Indemnity and Financial Lines business.
- Trade, negotiate, quote, and place risks daily while delivering strong client and broker outcomes.
- Monitor portfolio performance, pricing trends, loss activity, and broader trading metrics.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with insurers, MGA partners, retail brokers, and London Market underwriters.
- Develop placement strategies balancing coverage quality, pricing, speed to market, and sustainability.
- Provide technical support and leadership on complex or high-value cases.
- Lead and develop a growing Financial Lines team across both new business and renewals.
- Establish clear expectations around pipeline management, service delivery, trading activity, and conversion performance.
- Create strong trading disciplines across submissions, underwriting decisions, and client servicing.
- Act as a senior referral point for underwriting, technical, and commercial matters.
- Recruit, onboard, and support team development as the business grows.
- Conduct regular coaching, performance management, and development discussions.
- Support professional development and technical learning across the team.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture.
- Ensure regulatory obligations, compliance requirements, and governance controls are consistently maintained.
- Work closely with operational and support teams to support scalable growth and process improvements.
- Contribute to reporting, workflow improvements, and management information development.
- Represent the business at broker, insurer, and market meetings both locally and within the London Market where required.
Candidate Profile
- CIP qualification required. Progression towards MDI or ACII would be advantageous.
- Minimum eight years’ experience within Professional Indemnity gained through wholesale broking, underwriting, or a hybrid trading environment.
- Strong exposure to Construction Professional Indemnity risks, including Design & Construct, Architects, Engineers, and Surveyors.
- Experience working within delegated underwriting authority environments would be highly advantageous.
- Strong understanding of the Irish insurance market, insurer relationships, broker landscape, and market trends.
- Experience operating within the London Market and capacity placement environment.
- Strong commercial awareness with proven revenue generation and pipeline management capability.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
- Strong analytical capability with confidence interpreting trading performance and portfolio data.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Comfortable operating within a fast-paced, commercially focused environment.
- Proficient across broking systems and reporting tools. Experience with Acturis, Power BI, and management reporting tools would be advantageous.
