Head of Underwriting

16 hours ago

Singapore QBE Insurance Full time

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The purpose of this role is to lead and drive business growth by providing strategic and operational management to ensure profitable sales, growth, and strong customer relationships. This involves providing leadership in product strategy, pricing, and portfolio management, while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The role also includes driving profitable growth, managing resources effectively, and overseeing the country's P&L for designated business lines within the organisation.

The Opportunity

  • Drive the design, development and implementation of Portfolio strategy across the value chain that aligns with the overarching strategy.
  • Manage the portfolio P&L to deliver to portfolio targets.
  • Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, including product, pricing and underwriting.
  • Develop and drive product strategies to underpin product profitability and sustainable growth.
Your new role
  • Lead, manage, coach and mentor the team to ensure effective resource allocation and optimal performance.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to maximise influence.
  • Deliver efficient, accurate and timely management information to support decision-making.
  • Translate strategies and plans into operational objectives for the business unit.
  • Develop networks and relationships internally and externally to ensure seamless delivery of the insurance value chain.

About you Underwriting experience in a senior role. Experience in managing a general insurance business. Leadership experience. Experience converting analysis into strategy. Commercial acumen with senior stakeholder management experience. Customer centricity mindset. 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.

Benefits
Excited to share our comprehensive benefits package at QBE

Flex and hybrid working options
Work from home policy
Paternity leaves matching with maternity leave
♀ Well-being programs
Pensions
Medical benefits
Globally, access to online learning via LinkedIn Learning
On top of annual leaves, 3 additional days off (Family care leaves)
Study leave
Marriage leave
Internal Appreciation program with points to redeem nice merchandize and life experiences

Join us and enjoy a work environment that values your well-being and personal growth #EmployeeBenefits #WorkLifeBalance #CareerDevelopment

Join us now, so you can be part of our success - and we can be part of yours.
Your career at QBE - Let's make it happen.

Global Disclaimer

• The duties listed in this job description do not limit the assignment of work. They are not to be construed as a complete list of the duties normally to be performed in the position or those occasionally assigned outside an employee's normal duties. Our Group Code of Ethics and Conduct addresses the responsibilities we all have at QBE to our company, to each other and to our customers, suppliers, communities and governments. It provides clear guidance to help us to make good judgement calls.

Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Coaching for success, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Financial Modeling, Influencing, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Policy Development, Portfolio Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Leadership

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

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