Portfolio Manager

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**Portfolio Manager | Personal Injury | Perth, Western Australia**
- Put the customer at the heart of everything you do
- Feel empowered to make a positive impact
- Be trusted to do what's right

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Head of Western Region Personal Injury, this role's purpose is to drive business plans and distribution strategy within the local market. Use your Underwriting, Brokerage & Sales, and marketing knowledge to Build and maintain effective relationships while optimising growth and profitability outcomes. Utilise your existing people leader skills to lead and develop a team of diverse skilled Underwriters.

This is a permanent opportunity working within a flexible work environment that offers hybrid working.

**You'll be responsible for**:

- Develop action plans and ensuring quality service and adherence to Company risk, underwriting and Compliance standards.
- Manage and monitor a portfolio of brokers, ensuring that portfolios are sustainably maintained in alignment with the Risk Appetite, financial objectives, Governance, and strategic objectives of the Workers Compensation product.
- Execute proactive portfolio management and analysis to identify effective strategies and solutions aimed at improving client and portfolio profitability. Developing and implementing cycle management plans as required. This includes Identifying and developing new business opportunities within existing portfolio and existing relationships.
- Drive performance and act as a technical specialist for the local brand this includes internal stakeholders such as account management and claims.
- Manage large account workflow and underwriting escalation processes. Ensuring market leading customer service is delivered to maintain positive Net Promoter Score (NPS) results.
- Engage and work alongside the SME Underwriting Manager to ensure Allianz Personal Injury is offered to all local market.

**Important to your success**:

- Extensive experience in an operational, commercial Underwriting management / leadership role in a general insurance organisation.
- Significant Workers Compensation/ Personal Injury experience & knowledge of the associated legislation
- Demonstrates commercial acumen by using insights related to the market, opportunities, risks, and competitors within the insurance industry.
- Extensive background in proactively building and maintaining professional relationships and networks to enhance industry positioning.
- Experience empowering people and leading a successful team to ensure staff, business and customer needs are met.
- Proven analytical and critical thinking capability to interpret a range of data, identify patterns and trends

**What's on offer?**
- **Flexible work environment**:

- **Permanent opportunity**:

- **Join a division within Allianz that offer continuous market growth and unlimited opportunity to be involved in change**:

- A competitive salary package including bonus structure
- A tailored career program to determine where you want to go within Allianz
- A range of attractive benefits including Insurance & Gym Membership discounts
- A strong, progressive & supportive team environment; we work together to achieve great results

**About us**

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. We do this through delivering a great customer experience that is the result of appreciating each other every single day, showing heart by really listening and seeing things from the perspective of others by always asking, "how can I help?".
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