Senior Manager, Commercial Initiatives & Governance

• Engage with partners and a range of stakeholders across the business
• Opportunity to work with the 5th largest General Insurer in Australia
• Flexible hybrid WFH and Office - Sydney Based

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and a top 5 General Insurer in Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, and pet. Hollard’s unrelenting focus on diversity and inclusion, collaborative partnerships, and delivering great customer outcomes is at the heart of its business model, driven by its purpose of “Using our expertise, integrity and humanity to go further, together" 

We have just moved into our new, state-of-the-art facilities in North Sydney! This upgrade represents a major step forward in our commitment to providing innovative workspaces that support hybrid and remote work. Join our team and be a part of shaping the future of our organization in our modern new home.

The Team

The Commercial Initiatives & Governance team sits within the Portfolio & Strategy function under the Chief Commercial Office to drive partner governance & oversight and support on Commercial Initiatives in conjunction with the broader Commercial function. This role reports into the Head of 
Portfolio & Strategy.

• Drive uplift in the partner monitoring & oversight framework and capability, through business-as-usual activity and the Partner Engagement Model project
• Collaboratively work with key stakeholders across the business, particularly within Commercial, to support the ongoing embedment of the partner monitoring & oversight framework.
• Continually improve the business-as-usual partner monitoring & oversight framework
• Report on the Hollard’s partnership landscape from an oversight & monitoring perspective, for a variety of audiences including but not limited to: Board, management and working groups. This will require fit-for-purpose information collection, analysis and verification to ensure consistent and accurate representation of the current landscape.
• Support, and where required managed, the execution on Commercial initiatives including those relating to, but not limited to, new (and exit of) products, partners & channels to the satisfaction of the business.

About You

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to negotiate and influence at all levels, including those non-direct reporting teams.
• Understanding of how the various insurance functions come together to best achieve key outcomes for strategic and tactical plan implementation.
• Ability to design and implement fit-for-purpose governance structures.
• Critical thinking and an aptitude to design and develop innovative solutions to meet business objectives.
• Exceptional written, presentation, and verbal communications skills.

Working at Hollard

At Hollard you will be part of a supportive, valued and committed team. You will enjoy a challenging and rewarding work environment, career progression opportunities and great staff benefits and corporate discounts. We also offer many benefits to support your professional development and wellbeing including:

Professional and technical development opportunities

• Flexible start and finish times, work from home, and other flexible work from home options to suit your lifestyle
• Paid parental and partner leave
• Additional leave options, including 5 well-being days each year
• Generous employee insurance discounts
• Novated lease options
• Corporate employee discounts from various retailers
• Wellbeing benefits e.g., vaccinations, health insurance discounts, mental wellness training professional memberships, EAP

Hollard is unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences (including as relate to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity). These enhance cognitive diversity and psychological safety in our workplace for everyone.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance.

If you don’t meet all our expected criteria, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway! Our priority is to hire the most talented people we can from all walks of life even if not all our above boxes are ticked.

NO AGENCIES. We will not require any support from Recruitment Agencies and kindly request that no unsolicited resumes are sent to Hollard employees in relation to this role or others. Only direct applications will be considered.

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