SENIOR LIABILITY UNDERWRITER – PERSONAL INJURY COMMERCIAL - PERTH, WA
At Allianz, we’re proud to be named one of the Best Workplaces in Australia 2025 and a Great Place to Work. As a leading global insurance and asset management brand, we prioritise care for our customers, the planet, and each other. We hire the very best people to further our commitment to caring and securing the future for our customers.
We offer an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong, while promoting a culture of lifelong learning, development, and global mobility. Join us and share your ideas, be inspired, give back to the community and feel proud to be a part of an organisation doing meaningful work that matters while supporting sustainability, mental health, and well-being.
Let’s care for tomorrow, so we can create a better future together, for everyone.
The primary purpose of this role is to underwrite a sustainable portfolio of business in accordance with the AAL Underwriting Framework, Allianz Standards for Underwriting (ASU) and delegated authority levels.
About the role
- Provide advanced underwriting support by delivering quotations, managing complex new business and renewals, and offering technical guidance, coaching, and leadership to regional Underwriters and the wider Commercial team.
- Take ownership of technical underwriting activities, including complex prospecting, pipelining, renewal management, and underwriting decisions within delegated authority.
- Lead, coach, and develop team capability to build high‑performing, collaborative, and engaged underwriting teams that consistently meet quality and service standards.
- Manage workflows for complex accounts across new business, renewals, and policy maintenance, ensuring underwriting governance, accurate referrals, and alignment with underwriting guidelines and risk appetite.
- Drive profitable growth by identifying and maximising new business opportunities, retaining key accounts, supporting negotiations, gathering market intelligence, and building strong relationships with brokers, reinsurers, and internal stakeholders.
About you
- Relevant tertiary qualifications or Insurance Studies with extensive experience in a complex commercial underwriting environment, including strong knowledge of regulatory and legislative compliance requirements.
- Strong relationship‑building skills with the ability to proactively engage stakeholders, build professional networks, and collaborate effectively to achieve positive business outcomes.
- Highly developed analytical, critical thinking, and decision‑making capabilities, with proven ability to interpret complex data, identify trends, assess risk, and exercise sound judgement.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills, demonstrating high attention to detail, ability to manage competing priorities, and deliver high‑quality customer-focused outcomes with clarity and influence.
- A passion for leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Benefits and perks
- Inclusive Culture: Join a supportive, open-minded team focused on customer outcomes, bringing your authentic self to work every day!
- Work-life balance: Enjoy our flexible, hybrid work arrangements, and tailored workplace adjustments, where possible.
- Career Development: Access mentoring, development and global mobility opportunities for growth and success, including access to over 10,000 learning resources.
- Financial and Well-being Perks: Enjoy discounts on Allianz products, retail, tech, and travel, plus financial wellness initiatives and the Employee Share Purchase Program- own a piece of your employer!
- For more details about our benefits, visit theAllianz Careers site.
About Allianz Group
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matters, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Adjustments and support
If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to
[email protected] for a confidential conversation.
Join us. Let’s care for tomorrow. www.allianz.com.au/careers
