Senior Product

Time Type: Full timeWorker Type: Employee

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

The opportunity

We're looking for a strategic and collaborative leader to join QBE as a Senior Product & Portfolio Lead . This is a key role responsible for overseeing the performance and development of our commercial packages portfolio. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping product strategy, driving portfolio outcomes, and leading cross-functional initiatives that align with our business goals and risk frameworks.

Your new role

As the Senior Product & Portfolio Lead, you will:

• Lead initiatives across the product lifecycle including design, development, enhancements, and maintenance, while ensuring product changes such as policy wording and underwriting guidelines are effectively implemented.
• Assess complex underwriting referrals to ensure alignment with risk appetite, authority limits, and underwriting standards, and collaborate with actuarial teams to interpret catastrophe model outputs.
• Identify and resolve product and pricing system issues, support technical pricing reviews, and lead the implementation of tactical pricing adjustments.
• Facilitate broker and partner communications, deliver product training, and oversee intermediary performance reviews and facility arrangements to ensure alignment with portfolio objectives.
• Monitor and optimise portfolio performance including financial outcomes, claims trends, and exposure, while leading the development of customer, product, and distribution strategies.
• Mentor direct reports, collaborate across underwriting, pricing, claims, risk, and distribution teams, contribute to strategic planning forums, and act as a subject matter expert for complex product and portfolio issues.

About you

You bring a strong mix of technical expertise, leadership capability, and a collaborative mindset. You're passionate about delivering product and portfolio outcomes and thrive in a role that blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

• Strong experience in general insurance, with a focus on product and/or portfolio management
• Proven experience managing commercial portfolios, or a solid background in commercial packages underwriting
• Demonstrated ability to lead product development, pricing reviews, or strategic planning
• Experience engaging with stakeholders across underwriting, distribution, pricing, claims, risk, and compliance
• A people leader who can coach, mentor, and build team capability

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

APPLY NOW and let's make it happen

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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:

Coaching, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Portfolio Management, Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Waterfall ModelApplication Close Date: 02/09/2025 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

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