Job Description
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Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
National Portfolio Manager
Location: Perth
Type: Permanent, full time
Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working
The opportunity
This senior leadership role provides strategic leadership and direction for underwriting portfolios nationally to drive sustainable growth and profitability. The role is accountable for setting underwriting standards, managing and developing underwriting teams, underwriting complex and high value risks, and providing specialist technical advice.
The role plays a key part in building strong broker and stakeholder relationships, influencing portfolio outcomes, and ensuring alignment with underwriting governance, risk appetite, and industry best practice.
Your new role
Own national portfolio performance, delivering sustainable growth, profitability, and portfolio optimisation in line with the agreed business plan.
Set and execute portfolio strategy, including risk appetite, underwriting priorities, and pricing direction across new business and renewals.
Maintain accountability for underwriting governance, ensuring consistent application of frameworks, delegated authorities, and regulatory requirements.
Provide technical leadership and decision oversight on complex, high value, or nonstandard underwriting risks.
Monitor portfolio performance, identifying emerging risks, underperforming segments, and opportunities, and lead corrective actions to protect P&L outcomes.
Build and maintain strong senior broker and internal stakeholder relationships to support profitable growth and market outcomes.
Lead and uplift underwriting capability across the portfolio, role modelling strong risk discipline, collaboration, and performance accountability.
About you
To be successful as a National Portfolio Manager you will have:
Proven ability to set and execute portfolio strategy, balancing growth, profitability, and risk outcomes at a national level.
Deep technical underwriting capability, with credibility to lead complex, high‑value, or non‑standard risk decisions.
Strong understanding of underwriting governance, delegated authorities, and regulatory requirements, with sound escalation and decision discipline.
Ability to build trusted relationships with senior brokers and internal stakeholders to influence outcomes and support profitable growth.
Demonstrated capability to lead, develop, and uplift underwriting capability, fostering strong performance and accountability culture.
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 13,000 people working across 26 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!
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:
‘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:
2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program
2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards
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 on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021
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 recognise 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 access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at
recruitment@qbe.com
.
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Coaching for success, Communication, Critical Thinking, Financial Products, Influencing, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Negotiation, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking
Application Close Date: 12/04/2026 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.
Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
National Portfolio Manager
Location: Perth
Type: Permanent, full time
Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working
The opportunity
This senior leadership role provides strategic leadership and direction for underwriting portfolios nationally to drive sustainable growth and profitability. The role is accountable for setting underwriting standards, managing and developing underwriting teams, underwriting complex and high value risks, and providing specialist technical advice.
The role plays a key part in building strong broker and stakeholder relationships, influencing portfolio outcomes, and ensuring alignment with underwriting governance, risk appetite, and industry best practice.
Your new role
Own national portfolio performance, delivering sustainable growth, profitability, and portfolio optimisation in line with the agreed business plan.
Set and execute portfolio strategy, including risk appetite, underwriting priorities, and pricing direction across new business and renewals.
Maintain accountability for underwriting governance, ensuring consistent application of frameworks, delegated authorities, and regulatory requirements.
Provide technical leadership and decision oversight on complex, high value, or nonstandard underwriting risks.
Monitor portfolio performance, identifying emerging risks, underperforming segments, and opportunities, and lead corrective actions to protect P&L outcomes.
Build and maintain strong senior broker and internal stakeholder relationships to support profitable growth and market outcomes.
Lead and uplift underwriting capability across the portfolio, role modelling strong risk discipline, collaboration, and performance accountability.
About you
To be successful as a National Portfolio Manager you will have:
Proven ability to set and execute portfolio strategy, balancing growth, profitability, and risk outcomes at a national level.
Deep technical underwriting capability, with credibility to lead complex, high‑value, or non‑standard risk decisions.
Strong understanding of underwriting governance, delegated authorities, and regulatory requirements, with sound escalation and decision discipline.
Ability to build trusted relationships with senior brokers and internal stakeholders to influence outcomes and support profitable growth.
Demonstrated capability to lead, develop, and uplift underwriting capability, fostering strong performance and accountability culture.
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 13,000 people working across 26 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!
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:
‘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:
2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program
2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards
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 on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021
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 recognise 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 access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at
recruitment@qbe.com
.
Skills:
Analytical Thinking, Coaching, Coaching for success, Communication, Critical Thinking, Financial Products, Influencing, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Negotiation, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Strategic Thinking
Application Close Date: 12/04/2026 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.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The National Portfolio Manager position is now open for candidates interested in the Work from home Jobs sector. This role in Sydney offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Work from home Jobs is a plus.