Head of Climate

6 months ago

Sydney, Australia QBE Insurance Group Limited Full time

Head of Climate

**Primary Details**
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee
- **Location: Sydney, NSW (preferred)**:

- **Type: Permanent opportunity**

**The opportunity**

Exciting opportunity to join the Sustainability team in its endeavour to deliver on QBE's purpose and make a positive contribution to the community.

**Your new role**:
You will play an important role in driving the delivery and evolution of the climate and environmental aspects of QBE's sustainability strategy, to embed change across all levels of the business. As a senior trusted advisor, you will work closely with senior leaders to evolve QBE's climate, biodiversity, and broader environmental approach, deliver strategic insights to inform business decision-making and support capability development, and support QBE to maintain an environmental leadership position.

**Other responsibilities include**:

- Delivering and evolving QBE's Group-wide climate and environmental strategy, commitments, metrics and targets.
- Build enterprise thinking and collaboration across our regions to drive innovation and commercial opportunities aligned with QBE's sustainability strategy, commitments and targets.
- Overseeing climate-related activities across underwriting, investment and procurement, and working with stakeholders across a range of functions and teams.
- Conducting assessments of QBE's Group-wide climate-related risks and opportunities, and work across the business to integrate consideration of these risks and opportunities into relevant business processes.
- Coordinating QBE's climate-related scenario analysis.
- Leading the ongoing maintenance, integration and monitoring of our Group Environmental Policy.
- Coordinating and overseeing the implementation of the net zero roadmap for our own operations, including:

- maintaining our resource efficiency and emissions reduction opportunity pipeline,
- engaging across the business on environmental performance and improvement opportunities,
- overseeing our renewables and carbon offset/removal sourcing plan and process.
- Overseeing climate-related disclosures and climate-related responses as required for QBE memberships, benchmarking surveys, and sustainability submissions.
- Monitoring performance and delivery of exception reporting to relevant governance forums.
- Driving development of impactful communications to support executive briefings, investor relations and employee engagement activities.
- Representing QBE in relevant internal and external working groups and forums.

**About you**:
You will have knowledge of global climate trends and frameworks, particularly as they relate to the finance sector (eg NGFS, IEA, PCAF, Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards, etc). Additionally, you should demonstrate strong business acumen to effectively communicate the commercial rationale behind climate and environmental management practices.

You will have:

- At least 8 years relevant experience.
- Strong background/understanding in the finance sector, with extensive knowledge of climate change, biodiversity and sustainability.
- Strategic leadership with proven experience of delivering and maturing roadmaps/strategies in a high quality, timely manner.
- Excellent attention to detail, strong organisational skills.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to communicate and articulate complex concepts to a broad audience and represent the team or function in a range of internal and external forums.
- Strong ability to manage and resolve conflict and to work under pressure.

The interview process will consist of 2-3 interviews and background checks.

**About QBE**

We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE - let's make it happen

**Benefits**

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'Thriving at our Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

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