Hybrid Director of Underwriting

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About the role

  • Head of Underwriting for Elders Insurance, leading teams for underwriting across Australia in a national portfolio. Responsible for quality, performance, and profitability while fostering a high-performance culture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multi product underwriting teams across a large national portfolio
  • Accountability for underwriting quality, performance and profitability
  • Execute underwriting strategy aligned to business plans and risk appetite
  • Champion the specific needs of Elders
  • Analysing underwriting performance data, identify trends, and implementing improvements
  • Driv ing the integrity of the underwriting process by adhering to standards and regulatory requirements
  • Mentor ing and managing a team of talented underwriters
  • Foster a high-performance culture, providing ongoing training, and supporting professional development

Requirements

  • Proven leadership of high volume, commodity insurance portfolios with significant GWP accountability
  • Strong exposure to underwriting within major complex insurers
  • Comfortable leading a geographically dispersed team driving underwriting for Elders across Australia
  • A pragmatic, commercially minded approach to decision-making at scale
  • Experience in complex underwriting environments
  • Inclusive, engaging leadership capability across distributed and virtual teams
  • Capability to lead through change and drive performance and improvement in line with Elders’ strategic priorities

Benefits

  • Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
  • Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
  • 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super

Job title

Director of Underwriting

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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