President, Crop

Your new role:

• Facilitate the execution of the organizational strategy by directing overall profit and loss management, ensuring that business objectives are aligned with broad organizational goals to achieve long-term, comprehensive outcomes.

• Plan, allocate and manage financial budget by anticipating levers of profitability, expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs, and proactively managing risk and volatility to deliver consistent results for QBE to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility.
• Utilize high degree of business acumen to drive negotiations and relationships, including government, agents, and producers, surrounding complex risks to ensure agreements and plans contribute to organizational growth and development as a competitive force in the marketplace.
• Foster long-term, effective client relationships by utilizing individual credibility and extensive industry knowledge to openly communicate with key stakeholders, drive the execution of client-focused solutions and optimize delivery of service.
• Utilize influential authority by providing leadership knowledge and identifying and communicating opportunities for continuous improvement to enable the development of new business, anticipate market changes, increase retention, meet the needs of internal and external customers and align with business strategy.
• Lead in a way that fosters innovation by leveraging data and analytics to understand drivers of business performance that continue to advance NAU Country as part of the larger QBE enterprise.
• Navigate the agent environment and operate with the appropriate level of engagement.
• Understanding of the Crop insurance legal and regulatory landscape including policy, and procedural development and the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA).
• Serve as a a credible representative in market facing committees e.g., NCIS,and effectively partner for industry change and representation.

Work Experience:

• Relevant experience in a senior or executive leadership position leading teams with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Relevant industry or related experience.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Strong financial acumen and levers of profitability.
• Strong knowledge of reinsurance, fund designation, and risk assignment.
• Ability to build on a strong cultural foundation and advance the organization's cultural maturity.
• Ability to lead multifunctional teams (leaders of leaders) through change.
• Expense management and how to scale efficiently and effectively.

Qualifications:

• Tertiary Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Preferred Experience:

• Strong knowledge of Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI).
• Experience in the Agricultural industry.

• Hybrid Working - a mix of working from home and in the office

• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications, and continuing education
• Employee Network and Community - QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community

To learn more, click here: Benefits | QBE US.

At QBE, we're enabling a more resilient future - for our customers, communities, environment, and for our people. We're building momentum to achieve something significant and know our people are at the center of our success.

Our industry offers interesting and varied careers where you can help people to protect what matters most. As part of the QBE team, you'll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. And our international scale means we're big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact.

Join us now, so you can be part of our success - and we can be part of yours!

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