Practice Lead

6 days ago


Council of the City of Sydney, Australia QBE Insurance Group Full time

# # **Primary Details**Time Type: Full timeWorker Type: Employee**The Opportunity**This role presents an excellent opportunity for a strong technical leader who can guide and mentor a team of risk engineers and collaborate closely with underwriters. You will utilise your deep understanding of risk management, loss prevention, and business continuity planning, along with insurance processes such as underwriting, pricing, and claims, to provide customer-focused risk management guidance. Your leadership will be instrumental in delivering effective risk assessments and mitigation strategies, ultimately enhancing the overall customer experience.**Your new role:**As the Practice Lead for Property Risk Management, you will lead a team of in-house Risk Engineers to provide industry leading risk management services by providing superior risk assessments and advice to underwriters and best practice customer risk and mitigation solutions to customers.You will:* Deliver property risk management services to support underwriting processes, collaborating with Product, Distribution and broker partners to align QBE risk engineering with business and customer needs.* Contribute to developing and executing functional strategy, business plans, and objectives that align with divisional goals.* Embed industry-leading property risk management services to establish QBE’s unique value proposition within agreed service levels and budget.* Research and implement innovative technological solutions to enhance property risk management offerings.* Ensure comprehensive planning for initiatives and projects while developing and maintaining procedures, guidelines, and tools across AUSPAC.* Ensure the quality of property risk engineering services, including risk survey reports and mitigation advice provided to broker partners and customers.**About you**To be suitable for this role, you will have the ability to influence management and develop relationships with key stakeholders across business units and levels of the organisation. You will be an excellent communicator with strong facilitation and negotiation skills, as well as exceptional presentation skills, both oral and written. Additionally, proven experience in project management skills and experience for successfully overseeing and executing various initiatives and projects.* Proven professional experience providing insurance property risk management services.* Demonstrated experience in property risk management, including advising on loss prevention and risk improvement strategies.* Proven technical leadership experience in managing risk management services.* Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, mentoring, and developing team members to ensure optimal performance and engagement**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 11,000 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.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* 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super* The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching* Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums* Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network* Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners**Rewards & Recognition*** We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:* 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice* 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards* Platinum employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion* Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates* Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)* Family Friendly Accredited employer since 2021* Winner Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 2023* Winner Organisational Development category at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 2022**Apply now****APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen**Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with accessibility requirements and adjustments, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our employee networks at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@qbe.com**Skills:**Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Financial Products, Functional Expertise, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Presenting with Impact, Risk Management, Risk Management Information Systems, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Waterfall ModelApplication Close Date: 15/10/2025 11:59 PMHow 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.* Location: Sydney/Melbourne* Type- Permanent, full time* Hybrid working, happy to talk flexible working
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