Property Portfolio Manager Milano

Property Portfolio Manager
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

Are you passionate about working for one of the world's largest insurers that offers excellent opportunities to grow your career and with offices in 28 countries?

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks.

Today, we employ more than 13, 000 people around the world.

QBE Europe SA/NV is headquartered in Brussel and while we are international in our outlook, we are also proudly local in our operations with our Italy office in Milan.

QBE's European Operations, which accounts for over 27% of QBE Group turnover, is a leading specialist in London market and European commercial lines business.

Active in both the Lloyd's and company market, QBE offers considerable diversity to the broking community.

We are a socially responsible company and give our customers the ability to invest a portion of their premiums in environmentally and socially beneficial projects.

With our comprehensive product offering and underwriting expertise, we are able to cover a wide range of business risks, helping our clients to identify them and minimise their exposure.

If you are looking for to be part of a successful organisation with strong growth ambitions, then read on.

Property portfolio Manager

Your new role

- Prepare the annual delivery of business plan for the portfolio, monitor and report on progress, identify deviations, recommend remedial action and implement to achieve business objectives

- Recommend, implement and manage the resources needed to deliver the plan

- Initiate new ideas and concepts to support the development and delivery of the business plan

- Positively promote the department, division and company as a whole to maximize brand leverage

- Ensure strategic direction of portfolio is aligned to delivery of business objectives.

- Ensure portfolio: | Complies with legal and regulatory requirements | Adheres to QBE underwriting standards and best practice | Meets reporting requirements | Enables management of insurance risks

- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including customers, brokers, industry bodies, business partners, reinsurers and colleagues, to maximize influence

- Network internally and externally to promote the interests of QBE EO and to learn from others

- Attend internal and external groups and participate in industry forums and corporate activity to represent QBEs EO interests

- Keep abreast of market dynamics and demonstrate market cycle awareness to be able to operate effectively and appropriately

- Manage and develop the portfolio including retention and acquisition in line with the business plan

- Underwrite insurance risks to meet business objectives including: | Negotiating rates, terms and conditions for existing and new business | Managing production and issue of contract certainty documentation | Ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and guidelines

- Ensuring compliance with QBE Underwriting Authority

- Recommend systems and reports to ensure the book of business is managed efficiently and effectively

- Contribute to aggregate management and peer reviews to develop excellence

- Review and recommend action from reports that: | Regularly monitor the performance of the portfolio gross and net of reinsurance | Monitor performance against the business plan | Comply with exception reporting criteria as required | Meet the requirements of the Director of Underwriting/ CUO

- Manage records of underwriting risks and aggregate exposures to ensure accuracy of data and effective risk management

- Manage the effective purchase of facultative reinsurance.

Review findings and implement action plans to internal audit reviews.

- Manages and supports the portfolio team to ensure that people, resources and processes are aligned with business needs and fit for purpose

- Manage, resource, motivate, develop and focus the team(s)to ensure the required standards of performance and support the continuing personal and professional development of team members

- Recommend appointment, dismissal, performance engagement and reward of the team(s) to effectively manage portfolio resources as permitted through any delegated authority

- Establish clear accountabilities and authority levels for direct reports and build a strong culture of accountability and performance to ensure delivery of goals

- Lead by example and demonstrate behaviors to inspire team.

About you

- At least 2 years in an international insurance network as a Property underwriting Manager

- Deep knowledge of local market in the property segment

- Strong organizational, analytical and prioritization skills

- Strong interpersonal, negotiating and communication skills

- Ability to analyze data and use for decision-making

- Strong attention to detail

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