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About the Role

As a Senior Underwriter, you will apply underwriting strategies to deliver profitable growth, assess and underwrite new business and renewal opportunities, and provide technical underwriting expertise. You will also build and maintain strong relationships with brokers and capacity providers, act as a technical mentor, and develop a strong understanding of portfolio performance and market trends.

Responsibilities

• Applying underwriting strategies across targeted industries and occupations to deliver profitable growth.
• Assessing and underwriting new business and renewal opportunities in accordance with Pen Underwriting guidelines and delegated authorities.
• Providing technical underwriting expertise, including risk assessment, coverage analysis, terms, conditions and pricing for new and existing accounts.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with brokers to drive new business opportunities and maximise renewal retention.
• Collaborating with underwriters across product lines to strengthen broker relationships and identify growth opportunities.
• Acting as a key technical referral point and mentor for underwriters across the team.
• Building and maintaining relationships with capacity providers and other key stakeholders.
• Developing a strong understanding of portfolio performance, market trends and emerging risks to support sound underwriting decisions.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years' commercial property underwriting experience.
• Advanced knowledge of property underwriting principles, tools, processes and guidelines.
• A strong understanding of the Australian insurance market and broker distribution channels, with a proven ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Experience underwriting complex property risks and making sound underwriting decisions within delegated authority.
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
• Excellent time management, organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and attention-to-detail capabilities.
• Proficiency across the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Completion of relevant pre-employment background checks.
• Undergoing employment screening through probity checks prior to commencing.

Skills

• Property underwriting
• Risk assessment
• Coverage analysis
• Pricing
• Broker relationship management
• Stakeholder management
• Portfolio analysis
• Market trend analysis
• Negotiation
• Time management
• Organisation
• Prioritisation
• Analytical skills
• Problem-solving
• Attention to detail
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook)

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Flexible work arrangements
• Hybrid work arrangements

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• 4 weeks annual leave
• Up to 2 weeks additional purchased Lifestyle Leave
• Novated Leasing opportunities
• Two paid volunteer days annually
• Health Insurance Discounts with our Group Insurance Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Paid parental leave
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Support for yourself and immediate family members
• Employee Recognition Awards
• Service Milestone Recognitions
• Peer Support Program
• Annual flu vaccinations
• Access to Reward Gateway – discount offers at over 350 retailers!

About the Company

• Pen Underwriting is a leading underwriting agency, partnering with more than 500 broking businesses and thousands of brokers across Australia.
• We deliver innovative insurance products and risk solutions across a broad range of insurance classes, backed by highly rated domestic and international insurance and reinsurance partners.
• Our combination of deep technical expertise and exceptional service sets us apart.
• Our close-knit team of commercial insurance professionals brings together more than 1,000 years of collective underwriting experience.
• We are proud of our collaborative culture and commitment to customer outcomes.
• We value diversity, inclusion and community engagement, and foster an environment where our people are empowered to grow, contribute and succeed.
• It's a workplace built on strong relationships, collaboration and shared success.
• Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
• Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities.
• We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength.

Equal Opportunity

• Pen Underwriting is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to the principles of workplace diversity and inclusion.
• We welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices.
• Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
• Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination.
• Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.