SME Underwriter

SME Underwriter – Commercial - Brisbane

At Allianz, we’re proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.

We offer an inclusive 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 to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.

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

• Build a career in commercial packages underwriting
• Engage with a variety of brokers & build long-standing relationships
• Flexible work options are available

About the role

• Manage electronic referrals, new business, renewals, and policy updates, ensuring each interaction is handled with care, precision, and responsiveness.
• Partner closely with the underwriting team, leadership, and the wider business to deliver work aligned with agreed service standards and shared goals.
• Assess and underwrite risks within delegated authority, providing balanced recommendations and confident escalations that support sustainable, profitable growth.
• Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with brokers and key internal stakeholders across SME and Commercial portfolios, fostering meaningful collaboration and partnership.
• Monitor portfolio performance with a proactive, detail-focused approach to support GWP, leakage control, profitability, and strong account retention.
• Champion continuous improvement by sharing ideas, supporting compliance and contract certainty, and contributing to thoughtful enhancements in underwriting practices. peer reviews and constantly seek opportunities for process improvement.

About you

• Bring a genuine passion for delivering thoughtful, responsive service that supports and delights both internal and external partners.
• Build and nurture strong relationships, confidently influencing and collaborating across teams and stakeholder levels.
• Work with confidence and self-direction, thriving in autonomous environments while positively uplifting the team around you.
• Combine strong organisational skills, balancing priorities and maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Communicate with clarity and impact, drawing on solid underwriting experience to contribute across underwriting cycles.
• A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Benefits and perks

• Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day!
• Work-life balance: Enjoy our flexible, hybrid work arrangements, and tailored workplace adjustments, where possible.
• Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
• Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!
• For more details about our benefits, visit the Allianz Careers site.

About Allianz Group

Allianz Group 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.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Adjustments and support

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to careers@allianz.com.au for a confidential conversation.

Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. www.allianz.com.au/careers