✎ Job description

Wakam is looking for a Technical Underwriter to join its Paris office for driving profitable growth and reinventing our SME products in European Countries by making sure we have necessary analytical insight into our customers.

As a SME Technical Underwriter, you will:

• Identify, qualify, and develop new production sources
• Work collaboratively with Product and Pricing team and all support functions to implement SME strategy
• Proactively work with Business Developers and Account Managers to target key partnerships/accounts
• Assess insurance risk, identifying and writing profitable business in line with the overall business objectives
• Jointly with Product and Legal Department, design, draft and review policy wordings ensuring legal compliance, absence of any ambiguity and scope within treaty coverage and company risk appetite
• Review and Update of Company Underwriting Guidelines, focus on the technical elements of the overall portfolio, enabling us to grow at the pace we require, whilst maintaining a profitable book of business
• Jointly with Technical Department, review and analysis of claims activity to support underwriting development, Assist with portfolio review and management
• Conduct technical underwriting audits
• Resolve escalated technical and product queries and referrals within prescribed SLA’s
• Develop and maintain detailed knowledge of emerging trends/technologies/available data within SME insurance for European market as well as support the development and maintenance of analytical tools, reporting suites, and appropriate feedback/action loops, to enable the efficient and accurate operation of the Pricing & Underwriting Performance Monitoring activities

✯ Profile

Qualifications and Experience:

• You have a minimum of 5 years experience working in an underwriting role
• You have a strong experience and knowledge of the SME Insurance market (ideally UK Market)
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office Applications – Word, Excel & PowerPoint
• You demonstrate an analytical mind with experience of applied underwriting judgment to complement data trends

Your working mindset:

• Results driven, experience developing strong production relationships
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Analytically limber
• Keen attention to detail, organizational skills, sound judgment, and negotiation skill

Process de recrutement

1. Echange avec Audrey, Talent Acquisition Expert
2. Echange avec Joanna, Chief Product & Pricing
3. Echange avec les cross-team members
4. Echange RH avec Julie, Head of People

=> Welcome @Wakam 🙌

Positive energy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam in its hyper-growth!

You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!

More about us

Our culture? Free to impact. A culture where everything is possible, where all ideas are taken into consideration, where everyone has an impact on the transformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom? Thirsty for autonomy? If you are bold and like challenges (yeah yeah! That one word that all startups have at the tip of their tongues), then the Wakam adventure might be made for you! Discover -on our website- who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that so well describe us!

Mindset compatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture:

1. Think big
2. Biased for action
3. Curious and eager to learn
4. Can say no and find solutions
5. Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
6. And above all: have fun working together 🤜🤛 !

• Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds his role and knows his objectives.
• The organization is rather flat with only 3 hierarchical levels and an agile, collaborative, and transparent functioning.
• Every last Friday of the month, it's Free.day at Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).
• Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵)
• Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find out by yourself 😉)

What happened in 2021 @Wakam?