Senior Underwriter Financial Lines
Pubblicato il 18-09-2026 - Markel International in Roma
Looking for a role that will have a meaningful impact on Underwriting in Southern Europe?
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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
People management experience, or the ambition and capability to lead and develop a growing team
A strong broker network and the credibility to build trusted, long-term market relationships
Flexibility to travel within Italy and Europe to meet key partners, brokers and peers
An entrepreneurial, hands-on approach with the confidence to make decisions and shape a growing proposition
An open, innovative and progressive mindset, balanced with a strong understanding of established market dynamics
The ability to work at pace, manage multiple priorities and maintain underwriting discipline, integrity and profitability
Join us and play your part in something special!
What part will you play?
If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference,
you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
Who we are:
Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. xysqume
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful.
Please apply by sending your CV to We look forward to hearing from you!