Underwriting Team Leader

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Permanent, full time role
Auckland based location
Hybrid working, 3 days in the office

• We’re looking for an experienced Team Leader – Commercial Underwriting to guide our talented underwriters & strengthen relationships with our broker partners in Auckland & Northland.
• Grow & contribute to strategy, coach & develop your team, driving growth across Property, Motor, and Liability portfolios.
• You’ll have full support to enhance your leadership capability and technical expertise, while enjoying the hybrid working with only 3 days in the office
• Happy to talk flexible working.

Your new role

As our Underwriting Team Leader, you will:

• Lead and inspire a team of commercial underwriters, providing technical guidance and coaching to support their growth.
• Oversee day-to-day underwriting activities, ensuring timely and professional service for quotes, renewals, and policy maintenance.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with intermediaries and identify opportunities to grow our book of business.
• Manage a small portfolio of complex and larger accounts, applying your expertise to deliver tailored solutions.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to drive operational excellence and deliver on strategic objectives.

Please note: The recruitment process includes a phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team, two interviews (face-to-face or via Teams), and background checks.

About you

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• Technical knowledge in commercial underwriting across Property, Motor, and Liability.
• A natural ability to lead, coach, and empower a team.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with brokers and stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to identifying growth opportunities and solving complex problems.
• Confidence in managing a portfolio of larger, more complex accounts.

If you’re passionate about leadership and underwriting excellence, we’d love to hear from you.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. 

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 25 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

https://www.qbe.com/nz/about-qbe/careers

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• Voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• Bloomberg Gender Equality Index 2018–2024 (global)
• Equileap Top 100 for Gender Equality 2023–2025 (global)
• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Platinum employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family Friendly Accredited employer since 2021
• Winner Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 2023
• Winner Organisational Development category at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 2022

Apply now!

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen! 

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE recognises the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with accessibility requirements and adjustments, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our employee networks at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@qbe.com

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Customer Value Management, Decision Making, Financial Advising, Financial Products, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management

Application Close Date: 20/12/2025 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.