Commercial Trading Manager

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a senior member of our marine team for Commercial Marine Trading Manager. This will be key role across our commercial marine teams with the primary function of driving our trading functions and achieving expected budgets across the commercial business. The individual will also be responsible for day to day team management across both the Geo and N&G commercial marine business. You will work in collaboration with our Brokers, and the Technical and Business Development Teams in driving delivery and trading strategy around the acquisition and retention of profitable, target business in line with company underwriting strategies and business plans across the portfolio of range of Geo Marine Trade Products Including Navigators & General Trade.

You will be responsible for the teams trading goals and ensuring the teams are generating and underwriting new business opportunities as well as maximising existing business retention whether that be individual risks, portfolios, or new product lines, profitably and in line with company underwriting practices, risk appetite and within regulatory requirements.

This is a homebased role but there is an expectation that the successful individual will travel to our key marine hubs in Brighton and Cheltenham in the course of your duties as required and management of each of the underwriting teams.

What you will do as a Trading Manager:

This is an overview of duties and responsibilities and not an exhaustive list.

· Drive financial performance and operational productivity to meet and exceed targets

· Lead a highly efficient trading culture

· Deliver continuous service proposition improvement

· Effectively report on service and productivity performance against plan

· Maintain personal and team customer relationships

· Work proactively and collaboratively with key internal stakeholders to maximize broker account performance. Specifically, with the broker relationship team and technical teams to maximise technical, service and resource performance and productivity

· Define, structure and manage client cohort resource and service proposition

· Effectively communicate key business results, changes and messages

· Drive a high-performance culture focused on capability development and technical excellence, with effective use of performance management tools

· Maintain accurate resource and service plans and forecasts

· Proactively manage a highly engaged culture, and early attrition risk intervention

· Ensure a controlled trading environment at all times, with team activity aligned to the delegated authority, and conducted in line with Group Business Standards and regulatory framework

· Deliver coaching, development support and/or group training as required by the business including training needs analysis and working with Stakeholders to develop and deliver new training material.

· Act as technical referral as required within awarded license authority

· Act as SME (Subject Matter Expert) on relevant strategic projects

· In collaboration with the technical team, develop new underwriting opportunities across existing and potential relationships and support the underwriting of sales initiatives

· Lead onsite triage/trading sessions with Brokers

· To proactively deliver a high level of customer service

· To achieve key team and individual targets assigned

· Work within agreed company standards

· Ensure all mandatory modules and CPD records are always up to date

· To contribute positively to Geo Marine and Leisure culture

What we are looking for in our next Trading Manager:

· Management experience of running commercial marine teams

· Cert CII essential. DIP CII/ ACII preferred

· Experiecnce of managing budgets and P&L’s

· Underwriting knowledge and ability inc. specialist market and product knowledge

· Advanced level of specialist market and specialist product knowledge

· Proven, effective training style (Train the trainer essential)

· Proven ability to drive profitable business in the Marine Trade specialist market

· A working knowledge of the legal and regulatory insurance framework

· Exceptionally strong decision-making confidence and ability.

· Ability to communicate effectively at all levels with internal and external stakeholders.

· Highly organised with a focus on individual and business objectives, priorities and deliverables.

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Everywhen is an equal opportunities employer, with a growing and thriving diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.

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Please note: We may close a vacancy prior to the publish end date if the required quality or number of applications has been received. 

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