Performance & Market Pricing Manager

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Performance & Market Pricing Manager
- Location: Sydney, open to other office locations
- Type: Permanent, full time
- Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a driven and strategic professional to join a newly created team as a Performance & Market Pricing Manager. This team plays a critical role in managing and optimising performance across the SME and Elders portfolios—spanning a diverse set of general insurance products including Business Pack, Farm, Commercial Motor, Home, and Private Motor. This team is focused on market pricing and performance and is a part of the Business BU.

As part of this foundational team, you’ll help shape the strategy, build performance frameworks, and develop market pricing that align with business objectives and deliver sustainable growth, working with the Business BU, as well as the Pricing and Chief Underwriting Office (CUO) teams.

Your new role

In this role, you will sit at the intersection of data, strategy, and execution. Your core focus will be to drive performance and market pricing strategy across our SME and Elders product lines.
- Lead performance monitoring and optimisation across portfolio metrics (e.g. exposure, claim trends, portfolio mix).
- Set strategic portfolio targets and develop reporting tools to support decision-making.
- Translate technical pricing from CUO/Pricing teams into effective go-to-market rates.
- Manage pricing updates in line with market conditions and business goals.
- Support financial planning, management reporting, and opportunity assessments.
- Contribute to transformation initiatives and modernisation of performance frameworks.
- Collaborate across underwriting, pricing, distribution, and finance teams.
- Develop the product portfolio management suite, tools and processes.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Strong experience in general insurance portfolio management
- Strong commercial and analytical skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with pricing, underwriting, reserving, and other teams.
- Proficient in SQL, Python, Power BI, and the Microsoft Office Suite.
- Hands-on and collaborative, with the ability to influence through insights.
- Comfortable building tools, dashboards, and frameworks from scratch.
- Degree qualified in a quantitative field (e.g. Actuarial Science, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics) is preferred.

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
- 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
- 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 on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2024 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021

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