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Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

Are you passionate about working for one of the world’s largest insurers that offers excellent opportunities to grow your career and with offices in 28 countries?

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks. Today, we employ more than 13, 000 people around the world.

QBE Europe SA/NV is headquartered in Brussel and while we are international in our outlook, we are also proudly local in our operations with our Italy office in Milan. QBE’s European Operations, which accounts for over 27% of QBE Group turnover, is a leading specialist in London market and European commercial lines business. Active in both the Lloyd’s and company market, QBE offers considerable diversity to the broking community. We are a socially responsible company and give our customers the ability to invest a portion of their premiums in environmentally and socially beneficial projects.

With our comprehensive product offering and underwriting expertise, we are able to cover a wide range of business risks, helping our clients to identify them and minimise their exposure.

If you are looking for to be part of a successful organisation with strong growth ambitions, then read on.

Property Senior Underwriter (m/f)

Your new role

• Support the development of the annual business plan for the portfolio and ensure delivery of the plan
• Ensure the team’s awareness of the business plan and it’s context, to be able to make decisions appropriately
• Apply the Reinsurance Strategy in order to safeguard the portfolio
• Contribute and participate in all meetings, in order to share and develop strategy, knowledge and best practice
• Positively promote the department, division and company as a whole, in order to maximize brand leverage
• Contribute to the development of the team’s business plan in order to maximize productivity and performance
• Perform complex underwriting activities in accordance with all legal and regulatory requirements to ensure obligations are met
• Adhere to underwriting standards, instructions and good practice to minimize risk and maximize efficiency
• Ensure the recording and measurement of insurance risks, including DUA’s where relevant, to ensure accuracy and good practice
• Apply any reinsurance requirements to minimize risk and to deliver business plan objectives
  Act as a technical expert to support the identification of issues and opportunities within area of expertise
• Establish and strengthen strong relationships with stakeholders including customers, brokers, business partners and colleagues, to maximize influence and achieve business objectives
• Demonstrate understanding and awareness of market dynamics and market cycle to drive and enhance business performance
• Continually develop expertise and technical knowledge through identifying and implementing appropriate learning and development activities
• Underwrite complex insurance risks in accordance with the business plan and the personal authority to meet business objectives, including: | negotiating rates, terms and conditions for existing and new business | Compliance of production and issue of contract certainty documentation (non Lloyds) | ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and guidelines | ensuring contribution to the business plan and objectives | Support credit control in payment collection
• Contribute and influence in the review and analysis of the portfolio to identify progress toward business objectives
• Ensure entries are properly and promptly recorded on EO systems to ensure accuracy of data, in relation to: | Underwriting | Aggregate exposures
• Contribute to the aggregate management and peer review processes to encourage and develop excellence
• Manage resources across the team to ensure business requirements are achieved
• Motivate and develop the team by demonstrating good leadership behaviors and management best practice so as to support the achievement of business goals
• Manage performance fairly and in line with performance processes

About you

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