Asia Head, Underwriting, A&H

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The purpose of this role is to lead A&H and drive sustainable profitable growth by providing strategic and operational leadership ensuring governance, legal and regulatory oversight. The role involves developing and executing the underwriting and portfolio strategies, delivering the product's financial plan with the country teams, delivering underwriting technical excellence, creating the best-in-class value proposition and maintaining strong partners and customer relationships.

The Opportunity:

• Develop and communicate a strategic plan for sustainable profitable growth
• Lead the underwriting team to ensure risk quality and proper insurance to value
• Foster a collaborative approach to growing the business with multiple stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain risk appetite and underwriting guidelines following regulations.

Your new role:

• Leverage technical expertise to expand customer base in collaboration with Distribution, Marketing, IT and Operations
• Drive standardization of underwriting across all A&H products and territories.
• Capitalize on opportunities for continuous improvement on products, value propositions, processes, systems, and the customer journey.
• Build and maintain internal and external relationships.
• Develop sustainable underwriting and distribution operations for all A&H products.

About you:

• Underwriting experience in a senior role.
• Experience managing a general insurance business.
• Leadership experience.
• Experience converting analysis into strategy.
• Senior stakeholder management experience.

About QBE

What if you could have a positive impact - at work and in the world?

At QBE, we're enabling a more resilient future - for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We're building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the centre of our success.

Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And with more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, our scale means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact.

QBE Asia's operations is part of the QBE International Division, and has had a presence in Asia for more than 130 years with offices in: Singapore, Hong Kong & Macau, Malaysia and Vietnam. We continue to be recognised for our ongoing focus on digital innovation to deliver exceptional value and operational excellence for our customers, business partners, people and the community. We support ESG efforts through the QBE Foundation, which helps to create strong, resilient and inclusive communities, by focusing investment and efforts on two key areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact - climate resilience and inclusion.

Benefits

Excited to share our comprehensive benefits package at QBE!

Flex and hybrid working options

Work from home policy

Paternity leaves matching with maternity leave

♀ Well-being programs

Pensions

Medical benefits

Globally, access to online learning via LinkedIn Learning

On top of annual leaves, 3 additional days off (Family care leaves)

Study leave

Marriage leave

Internal Appreciation program with points to redeem nice merchandize and life experiences

Join us and enjoy a work environment that values your well-being and personal growth! #EmployeeBenefits #WorkLifeBalance #CareerDevelopment

Join us now, so you can be part of our success - and we can be part of yours.

Your career at QBE - Let's make it happen.

Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Coaching for success, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Financial Products, Influencing, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Strategic Leadership

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.