National Portfolio Manager

About 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.

Responsibilities

• Own national portfolio performance, delivering sustainable growth, profitability, and portfolio optimization 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 modeling 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.

Benefits

• '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 counseling, 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

About Company

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 realizing our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the center 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!

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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

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

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