Senior Underwriter, Commercial Property

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

• Location: Melbourne or Sydney
• Type: Permanent, full time
• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Underwriter to join our Property Team within our Technical and Business Performance area. As a Senior Underwriter your major focus will be on executing innovative product solutions through customer-centric insights and implementing meticulous risk management strategies on a variety of sizeable scheme business. In addition to underwriting tasks you will use your technical knowledge to add value across QBE, with involvement in projects to make our underwriting processes more efficient and introduce greater levels of creating clarity and simplification where possible/justified.

Your new role
A day in the role may look a bit like this:

• Build strong relationships with specific Major Trading Partners
• Use/Develop your Portfolio Management knowledge to provide insightful change across our scheme business
• Provide customer-centric insights, innovative product solutions, and meticulous risk management strategies
• Foster collective and aligned approaches that respond to the needs of our Major Trading Partners and Policyholders
• Participate in forums across the Property underwriting community to keep up to date with trends, changes, best practices, and to be aligned in underwriting ethos
• Involvement in ad-hoc projects to add value across the organisation

About You
To be successful as a Senior Underwriter, you will be an insurance professional with proven Property Underwriting experience at a Senior Underwriter Level. You will also have:

• Demonstrated maturity to manage outcomes of complex risks and to communicate effectively with internal and external customers
• The ability to plan to handle peak periods smoothly and efficiently
• A keen interest in analytics and policy wording critiquing
• The ability to effectively collaborate and work within a national team located across multiple locations
• A desire to mentor and guide less experienced underwriters to help them develop their skills and expertise
• An interest in learning new skills, which may take you down a product management path in the future

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
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• Voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition
We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our program
• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) 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 in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
• Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021

Apply now
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QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at

Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Business Management, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Financial Modeling, Financial Products, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Risk Appetite, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management

Application Close Date: 18/10/2025 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.