Senior Underwriter, Property, Corporate
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The purpose of this role is to support the implementation of specific business strategies by contributing to business development and growth through cultivating relationships with designated clients and making informed underwriting decisions to enhance the profitability of the portfolio. Key responsibilities involve generating new business, retaining renewals, and ensuring the overall profitability of a specific designated book of business within our Specialty insurance vertical. Your New Role: Underwrite new business and renewals in accordance with organisational underwriting policies, authorities, and standards. Provide timely, commercially sound underwriting decisions and practical problem-solving solutions to support customers and intermediaries. Support the achievement of underwriting and broader business unit operational objectives through effective portfolio management and risk selection. Ensure all underwriting files and documentation are complete, accurate, and compliant with internal guidelines, regulatory requirements, and governance standards. Build and maintain strong working relationships with customers, intermediaries, and internal stakeholders to support profitable growth and service excellence. Contribute to the development and execution of pricing strategies, including differentiation by geographic location. Review, monitor, and enhance underwriting procedures, standards, and checklists to ensure consistency and continuous improvement. Identify and pursue new business opportunities, including self-insurance and alternative risk transfer prospects. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of products, commission structures, and market developments to strengthen intermediary engagement and distribution effectiveness. About You: Tertiary Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience. About QBE What if you could have a positive impact - at work and in the world? At QBE, we're enabling a more resilient future - for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We're building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the centre of our success. Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And with more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, our scale means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. QBE Asia's operations is part of the QBE International Division, and has had a presence in Asia for more than 130 years with offices in: Singapore, Hong Kong & Macau, Malaysia and Vietnam. We continue to be recognised for our ongoing focus on digital innovation to deliver exceptional value and operational excellence for our customers, business partners, people and the community. We support ESG efforts through the QBE Foundation, which helps to create strong, resilient and inclusive communities, by focusing investment and efforts on two key areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact - climate resilience and inclusion.