Head of Automotive Protection Middle East
QBE Insurance
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
This is a senior leadership role with genuine autonomy and influence. You’ll shape the regional Automotive Protection strategy while building strong, trusted relationships with partners, distributors and internal stakeholders.
Success in this role comes from balancing strong technical capability with commercial curiosity, initiative and the confidence to spot and convert new growth opportunities. You’ll lead with purpose, setting direction while empowering teams to perform at their best.
Main Responsibilities:
- Lead the Automotive Protection business across the Middle East, driving profitable and sustainable growth
- Develop and execute regional strategy aligned with global Automotive Protection objectives
- Oversee underwriting performance across products including Extended Warranty, GAP and related offerings
- Build and manage strong partnerships with automotive manufacturers, distributors and affinity partners
- Drive new business opportunities by proactively identifying market gaps and growth potential
- Ensure compliance with local regulatory, legal and governance frameworks across the region
- Monitor portfolio performance, using data and insight to inform decisions and improvements
- Champion best practices underwriting, pricing and product governance
- Collaborate closely with Distribution, Claims, Legal, Finance and Analytics teams
- Lead and inspire teams, fostering accountability, engagement and high performance culture
Desired Candidate Profile
You’re a commercially minded leader who combines technical credibility with curiosity, initiative and strong relationship building skills. You're comfortable owning a regional portfolio, influencing senior stakeholders and representing QBE confidently in the market.
You value collaboration and know that great results come from people who feel empowered, trusted and clear on direction. Middle East exposure and local market understanding will help you hit the ground running, but mindset and leadership approach matter just as much.
Skills & Experience:
- Technical experience within Automotive Protection or related insurance lines
- Strong Sales and new business development skills
- High impact presentation skills
- Strong internal personal skills to build relationships and trust at all levels.
- An understanding of underwriting, pricing and portfolio management
- Experience of delivering profitable growth within complex or regional markets
- Middle East market exposure and product knowledge (highly desirable)
- Strong reasoning capabilities, creative and lateral thinking with strong problem solving skills.
- Curious, proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
- Comfortable working across cultures, geographies and regulatory environments
- Ability to prioritise and achieve deadlines / targets.
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- Head Of Automotive Protection Middle East
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QBE Insurance
About QBE At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch. We re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries which means we re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It s an exciting time. We re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner. What if you could have a positive impact at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind.