Senior Underwriter, Australia Property Division

Qualifications Skills and Experience:

5-10 years relevant General Insurance underwriting experience.

Established network and rapport within local and regional GI distribution network.

Ability to contribute technically to portfolio growth.

Strong analytical relationship management and communication skills.

Strong interpersonal and business development skills.

Excellent communication and negotiation and analytical skills.

Positive attitude and ability to handle challenges.

Professional industry qualifications / accreditations preferred.

Working at Allied World

Our team of over 1700 professionals has deep expertise in the industry. They enjoy their work and many have served for several years. This is what you can expect when you join us:

Instant membership in the Allied World Family a global network of colleagues who will support your career journey

A manager who will help you build your career through a structured coaching program

Access to a full suite of learning and development tools and resources

Global Presence

We are headquartered in Bermuda with offices in Atlanta Boston Brisbane Chicago Costa Mesa Dallas Dublin Farmington (CT) Hong Kong Houston London Los Angeles Malaysia Manchester Melbourne Miami Nashville New Jersey New York Philadelphia San Francisco Singapore Sydney Toronto and Zug.

Our Business

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings Ltd through its subsidiaries is a global provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions. We operate under the brand Allied World and have supported clients cedents and trading partners with thoughtful service and meaningful coverages since 2001. We are a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and benefit from a worldwide network of affiliated entities that allow us to think and respond in non-traditional ways.

Allied World is an equal opportunity employer. Subject to applicable law all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion or belief gender age disability military service marital or civil partnership status family status sexual orientation ethnic or national origin genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law or regulation in the relevant jurisdiction where we operate.

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Allied World is an ideal place for talented professionals who are driven by a belief in the value of collaboration and the power of knowledge.

We believe that when our great people work together and support one another our clients receive the best solutions. We embrace unique perspectives and empower each person to grow through professional development career training and mentoring programs.

Our people are our most important asset and we are very proud of the quality of our team members.

Job Summary:

This role involves underwriting cases across the allocated geographical remit of the portfolio and within the agreed processes and risk appetite to achieve business development and retention targets. You will spend the majority of your time delivering underwriting decisions contributing to business development activities and liaising with customers. You will deal with customers brokers network partners and third parties working with other colleagues and as part of a team.

Job Duties:

Reviewing allocated cases and delivering underwriting decisions following agreed processes at the designated authority level in order to secure profitable business within the agreed risk appetite.

Be a referral point by contributing to peer review processes as required to support and enable the maintenance of an effective control environment.

Providing advice and guidance to the production of new policy wordings or reviews of existing policy wordings to ensure policy documentation is current and accurate.

Identifying recommending and leading or contributing to the development and exploitation of marketing activities and product development initiatives to increase penetration of existing customers and/or expand the business mix.

Travelling within allocated geographical remit as required.

Proactively identifying and pursuing up-selling (add-ons) and cross-selling opportunities to maximize profitable revenue potential from new and renewal business and achieve agreed business targets.

Managing customer interactions in an efficient courteous and timely manner in order to deliver high standards of customer satisfaction.

Providing expert advice guidance and coaching to less qualified and/or experienced colleagues to address technical referrals and raise standards and expertise across the technical community.