Underwriting Assistant providing administrative and operational support to underwriters in commercial insurance sector. Collaborating to enhance underwriting practices and efficiency within the team.
About the role
- Head of Underwriting for Elders Insurance, leading teams for underwriting across Australia in a national portfolio. Responsible for quality, performance, and profitability while fostering a high-performance culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead multi product underwriting teams across a large national portfolio
- Accountability for underwriting quality, performance and profitability
- Execute underwriting strategy aligned to business plans and risk appetite
- Champion the specific needs of Elders
- Analysing underwriting performance data, identify trends, and implementing improvements
- Driv ing the integrity of the underwriting process by adhering to standards and regulatory requirements
- Mentor ing and managing a team of talented underwriters
- Foster a high-performance culture, providing ongoing training, and supporting professional development
Requirements
- Proven leadership of high volume, commodity insurance portfolios with significant GWP accountability
- Strong exposure to underwriting within major complex insurers
- Comfortable leading a geographically dispersed team driving underwriting for Elders across Australia
- A pragmatic, commercially minded approach to decision-making at scale
- Experience in complex underwriting environments
- Inclusive, engaging leadership capability across distributed and virtual teams
- Capability to lead through change and drive performance and improvement in line with Elders’ strategic priorities
Benefits
- Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
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