Senior Underwriter, Property

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Location: Melbourne
Type: Permanent, full time
Hybrid role, flexible working
The opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Property Underwriting Team in Melbourne as a Senior Underwriter. In this role, you’ll be responsible for underwriting new business and renewals of varying complexity and volume, operating within established underwriting guidelines, authority levels, and service standards.
Reporting to the Underwriting Manager, you’ll collaborate closely with a team of underwriters, providing guidance, sharing expertise, and mentoring team members. You’ll also play a key role in building and maintaining strong broker relationships, applying your technical knowledge to support business outcomes, and staying up to date with industry developments and new product offerings.
Your new role
A day in the role may look a bit like this:
Actively manage your renewal and new business portfolio, maintaining strong relationships with brokers and colleagues to support retention, growth, and profitability.
Ensure compliance with all underwriting standards, procedures, and processes through consistent monitoring and review.
Provide timely, professional service and effective solutions to both customers and intermediaries.
Continuously develop your knowledge of legislation, best practices, underwriting, systems, products, and organisational guidelines.
Collaborate effectively with Underwriters and contribute to a supportive team environment.
Promote a positive and productive workplace culture through respectful and proactive engagement.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have a proven background in the insurance industry and strong Underwriting experience. You will also have the following skills and attributes:
Working knowledge of Underwriting in a Property portfolio
Strong customer/broker relationship skills and focus
Proven knowledge of relevant market conditions for specific class/portfolio
The ability to negotiate and have difficult conversations with Brokers and Stakeholders
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong attention to detail
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
Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
Income protection insurance reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards Recognition
We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following 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 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2024 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
Family First 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
recruitment@qbe.com
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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: 22/08/2025 11:59 PM
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
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