Commercial Underwriter

COMMERCIAL UNDERWRITER

Location: St Kilda Road, Melbourne / Hybrid.

OVERVIEW

This role sits within an underwriting function supporting commercial insurance portfolios distributed through well-known automotive brand partnerships and other strategic partners and agencies. Reporting to the Head of Underwriting, you’ll provide specialist underwriting expertise with a focus on complex underwriting referrals, policy wording development and interpretation, underwriting quality assurance, and technical capability development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assess complex commercial underwriting referrals within delegated authority and provide recommendations where required.
• Provide technical underwriting advice on complex commercial risks, including coverage determination and risk acceptability.
• Draft, review, and maintain policy wordings, endorsements, Target Market Determinations, and supporting guides (premium/excess/discount/claims), ensuring alignment with underwriting appetite, product intent, and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct underwriting audits and quality assurance reviews; identify trends, gaps, and inconsistencies and drive corrective actions.
• Support the development and maintenance of underwriting manuals, governance frameworks, controls, and procedures.
• Mentor and coach underwriters and underwriting support staff to build technical capability and decision consistency.
• Partner closely with Portfolio, Product, Legal, Claims, Risk, Data, Compliance and Operations on business improvement and strategic initiatives.

REQUIRED

• ANZIIF (or other relevant professional qualifications) / equivalent insurance industry accreditation.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex underwriting referrals and technical underwriting matters.
• Proven capability drafting, reviewing, and interpreting policy wordings and endorsements.
• Experience conducting underwriting quality reviews, audits, or assurance activities.
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Commercial underwriting experience.

GOOD TO HAVE

• Heavy vehicle, transport or fleet underwriting experience.
• Delegated underwriting or agency environment exposure.
• Product development / policy wording design experience.
• Experience engaging with legal, compliance, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Experience supporting underwriting transformation or process improvement initiatives.

Next Step

If you think this could be the role for you then please apply now! Or, if you have any questions please contact

Will Westcott from Fuse Recruitment on 0468 020 792 (or email Sign in to view email).

At Fuse, we specialise in recruitment for the insurance industry and actively source for a broad range of established clients. If you are a broking, underwriting or claims professional looking for your next opportunity, we'd love to hear from you!

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