Underwriting Manager MidCorp WA

UNDERWRITING MANAGER MID CORP WA| PERSONAL INJURY & COMMERCIAL | PERTH

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About the role

The Underwriting Manager Mid Corp will be responsible for leading the strategic underwriting of the WA Mid Corporate Workers’ Compensation portfolio, driving market engagement, and achieving sustainable, profitable growth. This role ensures that risks align with AAL Underwriting Framework, meet Loss Control standards, stay within authority limits, and uphold high service standards.

Key Accountabilities:

• Execute Underwriting Strategy: Manage the WA WC Mid Corporate underwriting strategy and business plan to achieve profitable growth through effective risk selection, underwriting, and market analysis.
• Lead Underwriting Teams: Oversee specialist Mid Corporate underwriting teams to deliver high-quality service and capability for complex accounts and processes.
• Team Development and Work Allocation: Ensure equitable work distribution across the team while supporting individual development and growth.
• Portfolio Performance Management: Conduct regular portfolio performance reviews, address potential issues, and implement necessary remediation actions.

• Customer-Centric Approach: Align underwriting practices with customer and broker partner needs, collaborating with stakeholders to enhance customer outcomes and focus on renewal retention and new business adaptability.
• Monitor and Optimise Performance: Track productivity and service standards across key metrics, taking action to meet business objectives and capitalize on market trends.
• Subject Matter Expertise and Alignment: Provide expert advice on operational underwriting, ensuring alignment with divisional objectives and portfolio balance for growth and profitability.

About you

• Proven experience in operational and commercial underwriting leadership with experience in Worker Compensation.  
• Strong leadership capability and a passion for recognising and developing talent, fostering high-performing teams, and building robust talent pipelines to secure future organisational success.
• Exceptional ability to interpret data, identify trends, and deliver insightful solutions with critical thinking.
• Expertise in analysing complex information, extracting valuable insights, and evaluating options to make informed decisions.
• Strong organisational ability for effective planning, prioritisation, and managing competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to deliver messages with clarity, impact, and influence.

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 matters, 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

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