Gm Consumer Strategy

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Providing leadership and driving the growth of insurance business for the company by developing and implementing strategies and plans to maximize profitability through sales achievement and client retention for the Direct Distribution business.

The opportunity
- Critical role contributing to QBE’s customer strategy for our personal insurance business
- Join a major Australian insurer during a time of modernisation
- You’ll thrive on the passion, talent and kindness of our people

Your new role

GM Consumer Strategy & Portfolio Management is a key senior role in QBE’s -consumer insurance business, providing leadership and driving growth by developing and implementing strategies and plans to maximise profitability and drive sustainable growth.

Reporting to the Managing Director for Consumer, in this leadership role you will help develop the strategic narrative for the Consumer business, leveraging your understanding of the competitor landscape in personal insurance to ensure QBE is well positioned to serve our customers and respond to emerging market challenges.

Key accountabilities include:

- P&L ownership for Consumer products (ex CTP and LMI) including product strategy and day-to-day portfolio management
- Play the lead role in driving strategy and planning activities for Consumer
- Drive the development and embedment of customer strategy across all parts of value chain to bring to life the desired end-to-end customer experience
- Set revenue and profitability targets during Budgets and Forecasts for accountable products
- Lead the business planning process and portfolio management governance for Consumer
- Manage end-to-end proposition design
- Contribute and influence the design of underwriting rules and questions to ensure alignment to CVP and product strategy
- Develop go-to-market price strategy, balancing commercial objectives, customer and partner considerations
- Lead, coach and further develop a high performing team

About you

This is an opportunity for an experienced insurance industry professional to leverage your knowledge of personal lines insurance within a major industry participant. You will enjoy creating innovative market strategies and working with high performing internal teams to create compelling commercial propositions for our partners and customers.

You will be a critical thinker, able to deep dive into consumer insurance segments and draw meaningful insights, collaborating within a high performing leadership team to steer the direction of QBE’s Australian Consumer business.

Other key skills and attributes for success:

- Ability to drive and lead through change
- Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills
- Business acumen
- Analytical and research capability
- Passion for leadership and developing internal capability
- Alignment with QBE’s core cultural DNA

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 11,000 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

QBE Cultural DNA

Everything we do at QBE is underpinned by our DNA, which interlinks seven core 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 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 Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 12 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 in