Commercial Underwriter
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Commercial Underwriter
Short-Term Insurance Underwriting Management Agency
- Menlyn Main, Pretoria
- Permanent
- Insurance
- Senior
- Ref ACG-IS-001
Position Commercial Underwriter
Company Short-Term Insurance Underwriting Management Agency
Location Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng
Region Gauteng
Employment type Permanent
Position level Senior
Remuneration R40,000 – R45,000 per month
Reference ACG-IS-001
Date posted 14 September 2026
Role overview
The client is an underwriting management agency writing commercial short-term insurance business through a broker distribution network.
ACG Growth Partners is recruiting a Commercial Underwriter on behalf of this business. The appointment underwrites new commercial risks within the company’s risk appetite and internal mandates, and carries responsibility for how a broker portfolio performs rather than for processing alone.
The brief is genuinely two-sided. Alongside the technical underwriting sits real broker-facing work: advising on the product range, training brokers on it, and feeding what the market is doing back into the product itself.
Key responsibilities
Underwriting and mandate
- Underwrite new commercial risks.
- Ensure that risks are written within the company’s risk appetite.
- Adhere to reinsurance treaties and internal mandates.
Portfolio performance
- Monitor badly performing risks and take corrective action on them.
- Maintain an acceptable loss ratio within a broker portfolio.
Product
- Maintain policy wording drafts and ensure the product remains competitive with the market offering.
- Provide input into building and designing various aspects of the products on a designated system.
- Provide comparisons between competitors’ products and the company’s own commercial products.
Broker service and relationships
- Deal with day-to-day queries and amendments to existing policies.
- Advise brokers on the current product offering.
- Maintain and build good relationships with brokers.
- Conduct product training for brokers.
Minimum Requirements
- Five years of commercial underwriting experience.
- Experience working with commercial insurance products.
- A proven underwriting track record, including assessing exposure and underwriting within agreed mandates.
- NQF Level 4: Short-Term Commercial Lines, 60 credits.
- The RE5 Examination Level 1 successfully completed.
- Very good written and verbal communication.
Skills and competencies
- Policy, product and systems knowledge.
- Negotiating skills.
- Problem solving and analysis.
- Numeric skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships.
- A customer service orientation.
Personal attributes
The successful candidate will work well under pressure and be detail orientated, with the judgement to hold a line on mandate while still being someone brokers want to deal with. Underwriting decisions here are visible in the portfolio’s loss ratio, so this suits somebody who takes ownership of that number rather than treating each risk in isolation.
Who this suits
This role will suit an experienced commercial underwriter who wants portfolio ownership and a broker-facing brief, including product input and training, rather than a narrow processing role inside a larger underwriting team.
Apply for this vacancy
Commercial Underwriter
- ACG-IS-001
- Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng Vacancy
Position
Commercial Underwriter
Reference
ACG-IS-001
Location Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng
Category
Insurance and Short-Term Insurance
Your details
First name *
Surname *
Mobile number *
Email address *
Residential area *
Province * Select a province GautengWestern CapeKwaZulu-NatalEastern CapeFree StateMpumalangaLimpopoNorth WestNorthern CapeRemote / HybridNational
Current position
Current job title *
Current employer *
Years of relevant experience *
Notice period *
Current remuneration *
Expected remuneration *
Qualifications And Regulatory Status
RE5 status * Select an option Completed In progress Not yet written Not applicable
Highest financial-services qualification *
Right to work in South Africa * Select an option South African citizen Permanent resident Valid work permit No current right to work
Product-provider exposure
Systems exposure
Supporting documents
CV upload * PDF or Word, up to 10 MB.
Supporting Documents Qualifications, RE5 Certificate, CPD Records.
LinkedIn profile
Short motivation *
Consent
The three confirmations below are required to process your application.
Required I have read and accept the Candidate Consent Notice.
Required I have read and accept the POPIA Notice.
Required I give ACG Growth Partners permission to process my personal information for the purposes of this application.
Optional, and not needed to apply.
Optional I would like ACG Growth Partners to contact me about other suitable opportunities. I understand I may withdraw this at any time.
By submitting this application, you acknowledge the ACG Candidate Consent Notice and the ACG Legal & Privacy Notice.
Leave this field empty
Reference ACG-IS-001. Your application is treated confidentially and reaches an ACG consultant directly.
At a glance
- CategoryInsurance
- LevelSenior
- TypePermanent
- RegionGauteng
- ReferenceACG-IS-001
- Commercial Underwriting
- Broker Distribution
Job specification
View the full specification, formatted and issued by ACG Growth Partners.
View job specification
Position Commercial Underwriter
Company Short-Term Insurance Underwriting Management Agency
Location Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng
Region Gauteng
Employment type Permanent
Position level Senior
Remuneration R40,000 – R45,000 per month
Reference ACG-IS-001
Date posted 14 September 2026
Role overview
The client is an underwriting management agency writing commercial short-term insurance business through a broker distribution network.
ACG Growth Partners is recruiting a Commercial Underwriter on behalf of this business. The appointment underwrites new commercial risks within the company’s risk appetite and internal mandates, and carries responsibility for how a broker portfolio performs rather than for processing alone.
The brief is genuinely two-sided. Alongside the technical underwriting sits real broker-facing work: advising on the product range, training brokers on it, and feeding what the market is doing back into the product itself.
Key responsibilities
Underwriting and mandate
- Underwrite new commercial risks.
- Ensure that risks are written within the company’s risk appetite.
- Adhere to reinsurance treaties and internal mandates.
Portfolio performance
- Monitor badly performing risks and take corrective action on them.
- Maintain an acceptable loss ratio within a broker portfolio.
Product
- Maintain policy wording drafts and ensure the product remains competitive with the market offering.
- Provide input into building and designing various aspects of the products on a designated system.
- Provide comparisons between competitors’ products and the company’s own commercial products.
Broker service and relationships
- Deal with day-to-day queries and amendments to existing policies.
- Advise brokers on the current product offering.
- Maintain and build good relationships with brokers.
- Conduct product training for brokers.
Minimum Requirements
- Five years of commercial underwriting experience.
- Experience working with commercial insurance products.
- A proven underwriting track record, including assessing exposure and underwriting within agreed mandates.
- NQF Level 4: Short-Term Commercial Lines, 60 credits.
- The RE5 Examination Level 1 successfully completed.
- Very good written and verbal communication.
Skills and competencies
- Policy, product and systems knowledge.
- Negotiating skills.
- Problem solving and analysis.
- Numeric skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships.
- A customer service orientation.
Personal attributes
The successful candidate will work well under pressure and be detail orientated, with the judgement to hold a line on mandate while still being someone brokers want to deal with. Underwriting decisions here are visible in the portfolio’s loss ratio, so this suits somebody who takes ownership of that number rather than treating each risk in isolation.
Who this suits
This role will suit an experienced commercial underwriter who wants portfolio ownership and a broker-facing brief, including product input and training, rather than a narrow processing role inside a larger underwriting team.
Apply for this vacancy
Commercial Underwriter
- ACG-IS-001
- Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng Vacancy
Position
Commercial Underwriter
Reference
ACG-IS-001
Location Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng
Category
Insurance and Short-Term Insurance
Your details
First name *
Surname *
Mobile number *
Email address *
Residential area *
Province * Select a province GautengWestern CapeKwaZulu-NatalEastern CapeFree StateMpumalangaLimpopoNorth WestNorthern CapeRemote / HybridNational
Current position
Current job title *
Current employer *
Years of relevant experience *
Notice period *
Current remuneration *
Expected remuneration *
Supporting Documents Qualifications, RE5 Certificate, CPD Records.
LinkedIn profile
Short motivation *
Consent
The three confirmations below are required to process your application.
Required I have read and accept the Candidate Consent Notice.
Required I have read and accept the POPIA Notice.
Required I give ACG Growth Partners permission to process my personal information for the purposes of this application.
Optional, and not needed to apply.
Optional I would like ACG Growth Partners to contact me about other suitable opportunities. I understand I may withdraw this at any time.
By submitting this application, you acknowledge the ACG Candidate Consent Notice and the ACG Legal & Privacy Notice.
Leave this field empty
Reference ACG-IS-001. Your application is treated confidentially and reaches an ACG consultant directly.
At a glance
- CategoryInsurance
- LevelSenior
- TypePermanent
- RegionGauteng
- ReferenceACG-IS-001
- Commercial Underwriting
- Broker Distribution
Job specification
View the full specification, formatted and issued by ACG Growth Partners.
View job specification
Position Commercial Underwriter
Company Short-Term Insurance Underwriting Management Agency
Location Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng
Region Gauteng
Employment type Permanent
Position level Senior
Remuneration R40,000 – R45,000 per month
Reference ACG-IS-001
Date posted 14 September 2026
Role overview
The client is an underwriting management agency writing commercial short-term insurance business through a broker distribution network.
ACG Growth Partners is recruiting a Commercial Underwriter on behalf of this business. The appointment underwrites new commercial risks within the company’s risk appetite and internal mandates, and carries responsibility for how a broker portfolio performs rather than for processing alone.
The brief is genuinely two-sided. Alongside the technical underwriting sits real broker-facing work: advising on the product range, training brokers on it, and feeding what the market is doing back into the product itself.
Key responsibilities
Underwriting and mandate
- Underwrite new commercial risks.
- Ensure that risks are written within the company’s risk appetite.
- Adhere to reinsurance treaties and internal mandates.
Portfolio performance
- Monitor badly performing risks and take corrective action on them.
- Maintain an acceptable loss ratio within a broker portfolio.
Product
- Maintain policy wording drafts and ensure the product remains competitive with the market offering.
- Provide input into building and designing various aspects of the products on a designated system.
- Provide comparisons between competitors’ products and the company’s own commercial products.
Broker service and relationships
- Deal with day-to-day queries and amendments to existing policies.
- Advise brokers on the current product offering.
- Maintain and build good relationships with brokers.
- Conduct product training for brokers.
Minimum Requirements
- Five years of commercial underwriting experience.
- Experience working with commercial insurance products.
- A proven underwriting track record, including assessing exposure and underwriting within agreed mandates.
- NQF Level 4: Short-Term Commercial Lines, 60 credits.
- The RE5 Examination Level 1 successfully completed.
- Very good written and verbal communication.
Skills and competencies
- Policy, product and systems knowledge.
- Negotiating skills.
- Problem solving and analysis.
- Numeric skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships.
- A customer service orientation.
Personal attributes
The successful candidate will work well under pressure and be detail orientated, with the judgement to hold a line on mandate while still being someone brokers want to deal with. Underwriting decisions here are visible in the portfolio’s loss ratio, so this suits somebody who takes ownership of that number rather than treating each risk in isolation.
Who this suits
This role will suit an experienced commercial underwriter who wants portfolio ownership and a broker-facing brief, including product input and training, rather than a narrow processing role inside a larger underwriting team.
Apply for this vacancy
Commercial Underwriter
- ACG-IS-001
- Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng Vacancy
Position
Commercial Underwriter
Reference
ACG-IS-001
Location Menlyn Main, Pretoria, Gauteng
Category
Insurance and Short-Term Insurance
Your details
First name *
Surname *
Mobile number *
Email address *
Residential area *
Province * Select a province GautengWestern CapeKwaZulu-NatalEastern CapeFree StateMpumalangaLimpopoNorth WestNorthern CapeRemote / HybridNational
Current position
Current job title *
Current employer *
Years of relevant experience *
Notice period *
Current remuneration *
Expected remuneration *
Supporting Documents Qualifications, RE5 Certificate, CPD Records.
LinkedIn profile
Short motivation *
Consent
The three confirmations below are required to process your application.
Required I have read and accept the Candidate Consent Notice.
Required I have read and accept the POPIA Notice.
Required I give ACG Growth Partners permission to process my personal information for the purposes of this application.
Optional, and not needed to apply.
Optional I would like ACG Growth Partners to contact me about other suitable opportunities. I understand I may withdraw this at any time.
By submitting this application, you acknowledge the ACG Candidate Consent Notice and the ACG Legal & Privacy Notice.
Leave this field empty
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