Underwriting Manager

To lead and manage underwriting operations across all non-motor lines of general insurance business by assessing risk exposures, ensuring profitable portfolio growth, maintaining underwriting discipline, supporting business development initiatives, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and company underwriting guidelines.

• Underwrite and manage risks across Property, Engineering, Marine, Liability, and Financial Lines portfolios.
• Assess risk submissions, financials, claims history, survey reports, and underwriting exposures to determine acceptance, pricing, terms, and coverage.
• Approve risks within delegated authority and refer complex or high-value cases to senior management or reinsurers.
• Monitor portfolio performance, profitability, loss ratios, retention, and risk accumulations, implementing corrective actions where required.
• Develop and maintain sound underwriting and pricing strategies aligned with business objectives and market conditions.
• Manage facultative reinsurance placements and maintain effective relationships with reinsurers and brokers.
• Support treaty renewals, reinsurance submissions, and compliance with treaty guidelines.
• Review risk surveys and recommend risk-improvement and loss-prevention measures.
• Evaluate catastrophe exposures and ensure effective portfolio risk diversification.
• Collaborate with brokers, clients, and sales teams to drive profitable growth and retention.
• Provide technical underwriting support for business development, product enhancement, and market expansion initiatives.
• Ensure accurate policy issuance, renewals, endorsements, cancellations, and maintenance of underwriting documentation.
• Support complex claims assessment by analyzing claims trends and providing underwriting expertise.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, underwriting guidelines, audit standards, and risk management frameworks.
• Lead, coach, and develop underwriting team members while promoting underwriting excellence and best practices.

Pre-requisite

• Bachelor's Degree in Insurance, Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, Commerce, or related field.
• Professional insurance qualifications preferred:
• ACII / FCII
• CPCU & ANZIIF
• 8-15 years of experience in General Insurance underwriting.
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing non-motor underwriting portfolios.
• Experience across multiple commercial and corporate insurance classes.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and English