Senior Underwriter Financial Lines
Pubblicato il 01-09-2026 - Markel International in Varese
Looking for a role that will have a meaningful impact on Underwriting in Southern Europe?
Come and progress your career in our Italian Underwriting team at Markel
The opportunity:
We're looking for a Senior Underwriter, Financial Lines to join us in Milan.
Following strong and sustained growth across Europe, we are excited to be expanding our award-winning product offering into Italy. This is a rare opportunity to help build something from the ground up; a high-performing Financial Lines proposition, a strong local team and trusted broker partnerships that reflect the Markel style — entrepreneurial, collaborative, specialist and focused on sustainable, profitable growth.
What you'll be doing:
- Contributing to the development of Markel's Financial Lines presence in Italy, building a sustainable portfolio
- Managing and developing the Italian D&O; SME underwriting team, helping to shape a collaborative, ambitious and commercially focused culture
- Underwriting D&O; delegations, schemes, products and facilities, as well as open-market Financial Lines business.
- Helping to shape product development, underwriting strategy, guidelines, standards, processes and tools
- Building and deepening relationships across the Italian broker landscape, representing Markel in regular broker and client meetings
- Identifying new business partnerships and developing innovative solutions that support our growth ambitions in Italy
- Working closely with colleagues across Business Development, Technical Underwriting, Claims and the wider European business to challenge, refine and deliver our strategy
- Championing continuous improvement, strengthening end-to-end processes and data accuracy as the portfolio grows
- Developing cross-selling procedures & tools with current Surety & PI Markel Italian branch insurers & brokers
Our must-haves:
- Significant experience within the Italian Financial Lines market, ideally with strong expertise across D&O;
- Fluency in Italian and English
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