Dealer Underwriter

Dealer Underwriter (Commercial) | NSW - Sydney

• Work on high profile & commercially significant mid-market accounts.
• Utilise your strong technical understanding of commercial risk. 
• Allianz is a Flex Ready employer, flexible working options are available.

At Allianz, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading insurance and asset management brands, with a workforce as diverse as the world around us.

We care about our customers, which is why we hire the very best people to further our commitment to securing the future of our customers, partners, and the community so we’re ready when they need it most.

We offer our people a workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back and feel proud to be a part an organisation doing meaningful work that matters like tackling climate change, mental health, and well-being.

Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.

The Commercial division is Allianz Australia's largest distribution channel whose customers include Commercial, Corporate and international buyer groups throughout Australia and New Zealand. We currently have an opening for a Commercial Underwriter to join our team to work on complex mid-market/ corporate accounts in accordance with the business unit plan, underwriting guidelines and delegated authority limits.

This role will suit an experienced Underwriter with proven success underwriting commercial risk, liability, property or motor fleet. You will underwrite large and commercially significant risks in our motor dealership portfolio and, engage with a range of brokers across the country.

It will be your responsibility to:

• Provide quotations for new business, renewals and endorsements.
• Strong understanding of the broker market with superior skills in relationship building and negotiations
• Manage workflows of new business, renewals and endorsements, to ensure delivery of quality products and services.
• Actively contribute to and develop new business pipeline through collaboration with distribution team and other relevant internal stakeholders.
• Anticipate and provide solutions to customers’ needs from available information, to design sustainable responses to suit their circumstances.
• Maximise retention of assigned accounts and ensure timely review of renewal business in conjunction with internal stakeholders’ requirements.
• Ensure the Underwriting portfolio is actively managed and apply remediation to stressed accounts to maintain a profitable position and manage any inherent risks.
• Stay abreast of market conditions and trends, maintain a market presence in the region and Line of Business community within Allianz.

Important to your success:

• Demonstrated experience in a commercial underwriting role/account management role focused on property, liability or motor fleet risk within General Insurance is highly essential.
• Build and foster collaborative and trusting relationships with key intermediaries to position AAL as a market leader
• Ability to plan and prioritise effectively, organise tasks and manage competing resources and demands.
• Demonstrates enthusiasm and ability to optimise business value to customers by delivering high quality services and positive customer experiences to sustain and enhance the customer base.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking capability to interpret a range of data, identify patterns, trends and links that inform judgements and solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with clarity, impact and influence.

What's On Offer

• Access on-demand lifelong learning and take control of your career development.
• Learn through being supported and encouraged to take on new challenges that will help you to develop new skills
• Be part of a team that’s open-minded, supportive, approachable and genuinely focused on customer outcomes
• We understand about work-life balance, we have adopted a hybrid working approach and we are always willing to discuss flexible & remote working options with our employees. Allianz is an accredited FlexReady employer.
• Access a range of benefits, such as discounts at retailers, travel firms, health insurers, gyms and financial institutions, alongside a significant discount on Allianz insurance products (40% for motor and home insurance).

About us

Allianz is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

Allianz is committed to enabling a culture where inclusion is embedded, everyone belongs and new ideas are embraced. We welcome and value talent from all backgrounds, experiences and ways of working Please advise us if you require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process or perform the requirements of the role.

Let’s care for tomorrow. For a career with plenty of room to grow. Care to join us? www.allianz.com.au/careers

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