Groupama Insurances has confirmed three senior appointments to head its Motor, Household and PA & Travel business. Reporting to Personal Lines Director Kevin Kiernan, the appointments follow the divisional changes announced in June to offer a more personalised and highly responsive service to Groupama’s partner brokers.
Maximising the talent and expertise within Groupama, Andrew Fletcher, formerly Head of Commercial Motor, has been appointed in the new role of Head of Motor. Andrew has been with Groupama since 1991. In addition, Craig Allen and Neil Thunstrom retain their positions as Head of Home and Head of PA and Travel respectively. Craig joined the business in 2006 from Churchill and has significant experience in technical household underwriting and developing successful schemes. Neil Thunstrom re-joined Groupama in 2004 and has over 28 years underwriting experience, the last 5 years of which has focused exclusively on PA and Travel.
Kevin Kiernan, Personal Lines Director said: “It is really pleasing to now have these three senior positions in place and to be able to draw upon the existing skills and depth of knowledge we have within the business. For Craig and Neil this was a natural move given their roles within the previous organisational set-up and Andrew will capitalise on his in-depth knowledge of the motor sector to really drive forward the profitable development of our personal motor business.”
MCraig and Andrew’s responsibilities will include leadership of Groupama’s new Development Underwriting teams for motor and household and they will be working to ensure an even closer link between the company’s technical underwriting and pricing activities whilst also supporting an enhanced front-line service offering for partner brokers.
Kevin Kiernan concludes: “Our desire is to have a swift and integrated service for personal lines brokers with easy access to decision makers and these senior managers will be responsible for making this happen in their area of the business. The next step is the appointment of a new Head of Planning and Pricing to help us boost speed to market and offer competitive deals more quickly and efficiently.”
“With these roles in place we can really get to work ensuring that personal lines brokers have access to the local support and instant decisions that they have told us they want to give them the competitive edge they need.”
