Mid Market Underwriting Team Manager - #1669879

Mid Market Underwriting Team Manager - Salary is Competitive

Location - Cardiff, South Wales

Are you ready to take your underwriting career to the next level? We’re looking for a Mid-Market Team Manager to lead a dynamic team in Cardiff. If you’re passionate about driving performance, building strong relationships, and supporting a team to achieve excellence, this role could be for you.

A bit about the job:

As the Mid-Market Team Manager, you’ll lead a team of talented underwriters, working closely with Senior Underwriters to ensure the team meets its goals. Your role will be to guide the team in delivering the best Customer service and solutions in the market, profitable growth , and improving capabilities—all while keeping a sharp eye on governance and team engagement. You’ll need to be comfortable making quick decisions, managing priorities, and building relationships that last

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Leadership & People Skills: You’re a natural leader who can inspire, communicate clearly, listen actively, and negotiate effectively.




• Underwriting Experience:  You’ve got a solid background in underwriting across multiple areas—Property, Casualty, Construction, or Motor.




• Industry Connections: Your relationships in the market are top-notch, and you know how to leverage them.




• Analytical & Presentation Skills: You can analyse risk and present solutions to brokers and clients with confidence.




• Love of Learning: You’re always curious, eager to learn, and excited to improve and grow both personally and professionally.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary is Competitive depending on skills, experience and qualifications




• Bonus opportunity - Competitive % of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.




• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.




• 29 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days




• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts




• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme




• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave




• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work




• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others




• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Dylan Wood a call on 07385 426164 or send an email to **********@Aviva.com.