Property and Marine Underwriting Manager

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Zurich Insurance Company Full time

A new opportunity awaits...

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 Property and Marine Underwriting Manager, you'll play a key leadership role in our Commercial Markets Crew. You'll be accountable for ensuring pipeline activity, top line growth, and the execution of our go-to-market and underwriting strategy.

You'll set the day-to-day activity and priorities of your squad, while being responsible for defining the cultural standards they work towards.

Effective collaboration across our sales and underwriting teams is crucial to achieving a strong market focus. You'll provide leadership to state underwriters, with a high degree of engagement in the market and across deal-making activities, especially in complex and highly visible accounts.

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.

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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