Primary Details

The opportunity

This is a meaningful role where your technical strengths will help shape positive risk outcomes for our customers. Partnering with our Underwriters, you’ll play a key role in delivering thoughtful, strategic risk management solutions that support business growth and resilience. Highlights of the role include:

• Being part of an experienced team.
• Travel throughout New Zealand and potential travel to the Pacific Islands, once you're confident and settled in.
• A unique opportunity to explore a wide range of businesses and understand what makes them tick. Ideal for those with a natural curiosity and a love of learning.
• Supportive mentoring and guidance available throughout.
• Happy to chat flexible working

Your new role

Provide expert risk improvement advice and conduct loss control surveys across a diverse portfolio. You’ll work closely with Portfolio Managers and Underwriters to evaluate hazard controls, recommend loss prevention strategies, and deliver technical insights that support customer retention and acquisition.  You will also:

• Engage with the customer to understand their risk profile and identify solutions to minimise the risk of loss or disruption to the business.
• Advise customers on how to best protect their business against loss or disruption.
• Provide survey reports and risk improvement advice to Underwriters and others within the business.
• Continuously learn about new industries, technologies, process & manufacturing improvements.
• Provide technical advice including contributing to risk management documentation and sharing your knowledge with Underwriters and others within the business.
• Ensure accurate validation and recording of risk data.

Please note that for the successful candidate, this process will include a phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team, 2 interviews (either face to face or online via Teams), and background checks.

About you

We welcome applications from candidates looking to step up or transition laterally into a role where they can grow and make a meaningful contribution, so would consider applications if you have engineering or a technical background coupled with excellent communication skills and curiosity to learn.

You’ll thrive in this role if you bring:

• Experience in site surveying, or commercial loss control, or transferable skills.
• Confidence as a communicator & negotiator with the ability to understand and convey technical information to a wide range of people.
• A collaborative mindset with excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
• Being tech savvy and enjoy continuous learning.
• Strong analytical & numerical skills with the ability to use data for decision making.
• A valid Driver’s License – regular travel is part of the role.

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 11,000 people working across 27 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!

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:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection, trauma insurance & Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following 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
• Gold Employer status for 4 years in a row 2019 - 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family First 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 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 [email protected]

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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.