Underwriting Manager – Farm
QBE Insurance
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Australia
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About the role
- Set and execute the underwriting strategy for the Farm portfolio, balancing growth, profitability, and risk appetite.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of high performing underwriters, embedding strong leadership behaviours and underwriting discipline.
- Act as a key referral point, underwriting complex new business and supporting agents with pricing, risk assessment, and policy interpretation.
- Provide expert technical guidance across Farm Package insurance, including property, livestock, liability, and related farm risks.
- Develop, maintain, and uplift underwriting guidelines and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and internal standards.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with a national agent network, applying technical expertise to support portfolio performance, operational objectives, and the successful delivery of change initiatives, including platform modernisation.
Requirements
- Proven experience in Farm Package underwriting, or Business Package underwriting combined with strong practical exposure to the farming or rural sector.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing underwriting teams.
- Strong understanding of risk assessment, portfolio management, and pricing principles, including the use of risk profiling and pricing tools.
- Practical farm or rural industry experience (e.g. living or working on a farm, agronomy, livestock, rural sales, agtech, or related fields) will be highly regarded.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and build trusted relationships with agents and internal partners.
- A commercial mindset, with a focus on delivering profitable and sustainable outcomes.
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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