Underwriter - Energy

**Primary Details**
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Underwriter is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with brokers and intermediaries to successfully quote and win on renewal and new business accounts supporting renewable energy and power generation clients.

**Underwriter - Energy**

**The opportunity**
- Underwriter is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with brokers and intermediaries to successfully quote and win on renewal and new business accounts supporting renewable energy and power generation clients.

**Your new role**

**Strategy & Planning**
- Contribute to the execution of the Business Plan
- Achievement of the Team objectives
- Actively manage renewal portfolio and new business targets

**Policy, Process and Procedures**:

- Monitor, review and comply with all underwriting standards, procedures and processes.
- Risks are underwritten in accordance with authorities, organisational policies and underwriting standards.
- Contribute to continuous quality improvement processes.
- All policies, processes, and procedure in compliance with business and regulatory standards

**Environmental Awareness/Customer Focus**:

- Deliver timely decisions and problem-solving solutions for clients and brokers
- Actively increase and share knowledge of QBE capability, risk appetite and products as well as brokers' operations to strengthen our delivery of innovative solutions.
- Work in collaboration with all areas of QBE to leverage opportunities.
- Positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders

**Technical Performance**:

- develop and improve a strong knowledge of current legislation, best practice, underwriting, systems, products, and organisational guidelines to deliver positive outcomes for clients and QBE.
- demonstrate and share an understanding of basic underwriting principals, risk analytical skills, market conditions, and claims trend
- meet all minimum internal and external QBE service standards.

**People Management**:

- Demonstrate QBE DNA
- Work collaboratively with Assistant Underwriters, processing team and other functions
- Build and foster a positive working environment.

**About you**
- Ideally reasonable experience in underwriting.
- Business Development and/or Sales experience preferred.
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant industry regulations (NCCP, Fair Trading, Privacy Act, Insurance Contracts Act).
- Negotiation and Problem-Solving Skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work well in a team.
- Relationship Management and Communication Skills.
- Analytical and Research Skills.
- Effective Decision Making.
- Fast paced.
- Fast learner

**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
- Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our DNA (which interlinks seven cultural elements) because we know it's not just what we do that matters, it's how we do it that makes the difference.
- We expect all employees to role model and inspire the right behaviours that link to our cultural elements:

- We are customer focused.
- We are technical experts.
- We are inclusive.
- We are fast paced.
- We are courageous.
- We are accountable.
- We are a team.

**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 reco