Property and Marine Underwriting Manager

1 week ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Zurich Insurance Company Full time

A new chapter awaits in your career...

At Zurich, we're on a journey towards a brighter future - a future that's focused on your career, your wellbeing, and your community, as well as our customers and the planet.

As a key leader in our Commercial Markets Crew, you'll play a pivotal role in driving top-line growth and executing our go-to-market and underwriting strategy. You'll be responsible for defining the cultural standards for your team and ensuring effective collaboration across sales and underwriting to achieve a strong market focus.

With a high degree of engagement in the market and across deal-making activities, especially in complex and highly visible accounts, you'll integrate risk engineering and claims capabilities to ensure a whole-of-account view is taken.

The purpose of this role is to underwrite commercial Property and Marine insurance in accordance with Group, ZAIL, and Zurich Australia requirements and financial and operational objectives, and lead the team of underwriters in State to achieve the desired business outcomes.

Important to your success - let's grow together

  • Bachelor degree or appropriate equivalent qualification (Financial markets, Economics, Financial management)
  • ANZIIF CIP member or equivalent experience
  • Multiple years underwriting experience across a range of technical underwriting disciplines.
  • Previous people management experience, leading a multi-tiered management environment.
  • Commercially astute with a comprehensive understanding of the General Insurance industry and the products available.
  • Proven technical underwriting capability ideally in Property or Marine lines
  • Proven examples of growing a business and delivering change in a complex insurance environment.
  • Proven ability to execute on strategic plans and company initiatives

Belong. Zurich is here to support you

There are so many reasons why Zurich is a great place to be, but here are just a few:

5 weeks leave per year for permanent staff through our new Z leave initiative, as well as 15 days personal/carer's leave (as we empower our people to manage their own wellbeing); Grow, and thrive in your career (we support and encourage it) with award-winning training programs; Work with global, diverse, and inclusive teams; Explore your passions, fuel innovation, drive equity, collaborate and make a positive difference beyond your role; Access programs to stay healthy and feel healthier along with receiving a AUD$500 wellbeing payment per year, plus a AUD$295 new starter e-voucher for your WFH set up (flex work - hybrid working), and other great benefits through our Shine portal; Access to Family Care (parental leave); Volunteer; Work in our state-of-the-art Green Star rated offices (when you are in the office); and dress for your day. We also plant a tree for every new employee – one of many local initiatives driving our contribution to ambitious global sustainability targets...

...We could go on, but the main point is that Zurich is a great place to be, where you can truly belong and thrive.



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