Property Facultative Underwriter UK market (Hybrid - m/f/x/d - 80-100%)
Swiss Re
Zürich
Unbefristet
Vollzeit
23 Tage her
Are you passionate about underwriting? Would you like to develop your underwriting knowledge in one of the best reinsurance companies in the world? Does the interaction with clients and brokers at a high pace excite you?Join our team! We are looking for a highly motivated, ambitious professional to develop into an Underwriter Facultative Property underwriter, or - depending on the candidate's pre-experience - advance his underwriting career.About the RoleYour job will focus on evaluating, underwriting, and originating facultative property business in EMEA, primarily in the UK national and international market. This role is in Zurich and part of an underwriting team covering the UK/Ireland, Middle East and African property fac markets. You will assess a wide range of risk types with your experience and by utilising state-of-the-art models. Next to underwriting, your role also entails fostering client and broker relationships, as well as turning portfolio level data insights into origination, underwriting and account management actions. You own your accounts end-to-end, supported by powerful business servicing and analytics functions.Within Swiss Re you will collaborate with key account managers, client managers, market underwriters and treaty underwriters in a cross-functional team, for a holistic view on our clients and markets, and to deliver the best of Swiss Re to our clients.This role offers you lots of space to build and advance your commercial mindset and build a thorough experience in property reinsurance in a vibrant reinsurance market.About the TeamAs an integral part of Facultative Europe, we're a diverse and international team of very experienced underwriters with long-standing relationships into our markets. We are building on a high level of single risk underwriting expertise and look back to a strong track record as a leading franchise in the UK fac market. We're looking to complement and strengthen our team to cope with continuing portfolio growth, as well as evolving market and portfolio shaping demands. While some experience in underwriting is welcome, we value diversity of expertise and thought, with fresh views, and a passion to turn new market demands into opportunities.While your existing professional experience will accelerate your learning, we'll offer a comprehensive on-the-job and course based learning curriculum, drawing from your peers, and from underwriting specific and broad professional skills development offers within Swiss Re. We are committed to continuous learning for our team members. The position will be reporting into Head Facultative Property UK&I & MEA.About YouWe are looking for you as a persistent, pragmatic teammate who indulges to work independently and takes responsibility for making decisions at a rapid pace. You enjoy leveraging technology with elaborated underwriting, modelling, and analysis tools to complement your underwriting judgement. You have analytical capabilities to exploit our rich portfolio and market level data. At the same time, you are empathetic, curious to learn, and willing to constructively challenge. You are attracted by working in an international environment. Moreover, you have:
University degree preferably in Engineering; Science; Economics; or equivalent work experience in a quantitatively oriented profession
Professional experience in e.g. underwriting in re/insurance, risk or nat cat modelling, quantitative analytics, industrial engineering, claims handling is a welcome asset
Entrepreneurial and solution-oriented spirit, assuming accountability from end-to-end for tangible outcomes, balancing analytical rigor with "can do" pragmatism
A track record of and continued hunger to learn in all aspects of a new role and an ever-changing market environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proficient in English, any additional language is an asset.
About Swiss ReSwiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.Keywords: Reference Code: 129432
