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🏢 Underwriter – Cyber (Full-time Employee) – Manchester (Hybrid)
Hackajob is partnering with QBE Insurance to connect them with exceptional professionals for this critical role:
💼 The Opportunity
Time Type: Full-time Worker Type: Employee Location: Manchester (hybrid working)
QBE’s Cyber Underwriting is a key strategic priority, with growing success and exciting expansion plans. We’re seeking an experienced Cyber Underwriter with broker-facing expertise to join our Manchester-based team.
This role will focus on:
- New business development
- Portfolio expansion
- Broker-facing underwriting with emphasis on growth potential
🔍 Key Responsibilities
As Underwriter – Cyber, you’ll:
- Risk Underwriting: Apply underwriting principles and personal authority to meet business objectives while adhering to the Business Plan.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, brokers, business partners, and colleagues to enhance influence and achieve goals.
- Market Development: Align relationships with the Business Plan to support underwriting objectives.
- Reinsurance Compliance: Fully understand and apply QBE’s reinsurance strategy to minimize risks and deliver objectives.
- Strategic Contribution: Actively engage in strategy, knowledge-sharing, and best-practices development.
- Brand Advocacy: Promote QBE’s reputation, division, and company objectives to maximise business impact.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure full adherence to legal and regulatory standards within underwriting and associated operations.
- Risk & Efficiency: Maintain high underwriting standards, risk minimisation, and operational efficiency.
- Market Awareness: Stay current with market dynamics and cycles to make effective decisions.
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🎯 About QBE
As an international insurer spanning 13,000 employees across 26 countries, QBE combines scale with agility:
- Mission-driven: Focused on "human-centric" customer relationships.
- Momentum: Building towards the goal of becoming the "most consistent and innovative risk partner."
- Values-driven workplace, prioritizing passion, talent, and kindness.
Join a company recognized for excellence:
- 2025 Insurance Post British Insurance Awards:
- Winner: Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year
- Winner: ESG & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year
- 2023 Working Dads Employer Awards: Parental Policies Award.
🔎 Requirements
Essential Qualifications:
- Proven experience in Cyber Underwriting
- Expertise in profit-drivers and strategic decision-making
- Analytical & datafluency: Proficiency in Excel and underwriting tools, data analysis, and risk modeling
- Leadership & influence: Ability to negotiate, set examples, prioritize seamlessly
- Strong Management, Portfolio Plans, and Stakeholder Relations skills
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💰 Benefits
QBE offers a comprehensive benefits package to support your holistic work-life balance:
- Paid Leave: 30 days/year with option to earn 2 additional days
- Flexible Work: Flexible working (part-time, job-share, compressed hours) available across roles
- Pension: 10% employer contribution to the QBE pension plan — auto-enrolled
- Personalised Benefits: Extensive customizable options
To explore full benefits, view Rewarding our People – QBE European Operations or Awards & Recognition*.
🚀 Skills & Competencies
- Analytical Thinking, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Focus, Collaborative Effort, Stakeholder Engagement, Financial & Data Skills, Portfolio Management
📝 How to Apply
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