Primary Details

Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Type: Permanent, full time role
Hybrid role, flexible working

The prospect

This Senior Underwriter role will see you underwrite new business and renewals of high complexity and/or volume within set underwriting guidelines, authority levels and service standards and manage key portfolios with intermediaries. In this role you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing relationships with brokers and intermediaries to successfully retain policies and grow the portfolio in a profitable well‑structured manner for our Construction portfolio.

About QBE

QBE is an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries. We are building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

Your new role

A day in the role may look something like this:

- Actively manage renewal portfolios and new business targets.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders for profitable growth.
- Underwrite complex risks within defined authority limits, organisational policies, and underwriting standards.
- Monitor, review, and comply with all underwriting standards, procedures, and processes.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers, brokers, and colleagues to achieve business retention, growth, and profitability targets.
- Apply strong knowledge of QBE’s capabilities, risk appetite, products, and broker operations to deliver innovative solutions, while monitoring market activity and maintaining current regulatory and underwriting knowledge.

About you

- Proven years of relevant underwriting experience.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications,



specialist qualifications or equivalent.
- Strong established customer / broker relationships.
- Extensive knowledge of relevant market conditions.
- Working knowledge of risk management, portfolio management and underwriting.

Benefits

- Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance.
- Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest.
- 18 weeks’ gender‑equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super.
- A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services.

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards: 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our program; Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI); Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025.

Skills required

- Analytical Thinking
- Business Management
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Customer Service
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Products
- Insurance Underwriting
- Intentional collaboration
- Managing performance
- Negotiation
- Problem Solving
- Risk Appetite
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management

Equal Employment Opportunity

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates. We are an international insurer and reinsurer offering a diverse portfolio of commercial, personal and specialty products, as well as risk management solutions.

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📌 Senior Underwriter Construction (City of Sydney)
🏢 Qbe Insurance Group
📍 City of Sydney