Sme Underwriter

**SME Underwriter | Melbourne - 12-month Max Term contract/ Secondment**
- **Build a career in commercial packages underwriting**:

- **Engage with a variety of brokers & build long-standing relationships**:

- **Allianz is a Flex Ready employer, flexible work options are available**

At Allianz, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading insurance and asset management brands, with a workforce as diverse as the world around us.

We care about our customers, which is why we hire the very best people to further our commitment to securing the future of our customers, partners, and the community so we’re ready when they need it most.

We offer our people a workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back and feel proud to be a part an organisation doing meaningful work that matters like tackling climate change, mental health, and well-being.

Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

**You'll be responsible for**:

- Managing electronic referrals received via Sunrise. Managing new business requests, renewal management and the processing of endorsements and amendments as requested;
- Working effectively within the underwriting team to convert quality business to achieve profitable growth;
- Submitting ideas on how we can improve our underwriting approach to deliver objectives;
- Maximising retention of preferred accounts and review renewal and new business in conjunction with internal and external stakeholder requirements;
- Where appropriate and requested, engage face to face with local Brokers alongside distribution and underwriting staff to build relationships and partnerships;
- Underwriting insurance risks in area of responsibility, adhering to underwriting guidelines and standards, as per delegated authority limits;
- Making recommendations on risks that exceed own authority and prepare escalations (sign-off) ensuring referral is accurate, thorough and balanced in terms of achieving desired profitable growth;

**Important to your success**:

- A passion for providing a quality and responsive service to our internal and external customers;
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to both build relationships and influence at all levels;
- Experience in an operational, commercial underwriting role with exposure to at least a couple of annual underwriting cycles.
- Adept at proactively building and maintaining professional relationships and networks to enhance industry positioning, exchange knowledge and elicit beneficial outcomes.
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively with good attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with clarity, impact and influence.

**What's on offer?**
- Access on-demand lifelong learning and take control of your career development;
- Learn through being supported and encouraged to take on new challenges that will help you to develop new skills;
- Be part of a team that’s open-minded, supportive, approachable and genuinely focused on customer outcomes;
- A team which embraces diversity and inclusion to create an environment built on respect and genuine care for one another;
- We understand about work-life balance, we have adopted a hybrid working approach and we are always willing to discuss flexible & remote working options with our employees. Allianz is an accredited FlexReady employer;
- Access a range of benefits, such as discounts at retailers, travel firms, health insurers, gyms and financial institutions, alongside a discount on Allianz insurance products.

**About us**

At Allianz, we care for all the things that make you, you. For feeling like you belong. For a place where learning never stops. For growing new skills and opening up exciting possibilities. For your curiosity to thrive and help transform an industry. And when life twists, there’s flexibility for balance and the support you need. We know that flexible work comes in different forms, that’s why we’re embracing hybrid teams - enabling employees to maintain a balance of working both in the office and remote, supporting the needs of both the business and individual.

Allianz is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

**Job Level**:
Professional

**Location**:

- Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000**Area of Expertise**:
Underwriting

**Unit**:
Allianz Australia

**Employing Entity**:
ALLIANZ AUSTRALIA SERVICES PTY LTD

**Job Type**:
Full-Time

**Remote Job**:
Hybrid working

**Employment Type**:
Temporary

**ID**:
40562

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