Underwriter Property

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

About the role

• Assist the team in the underwriting of property business for UK, Ireland and International wholesale markets, help maintai the current book and producing new business opportunities
• Analyses and assesses Property submissions in respect of exposures and coverages. Identifies and negotiates the best position for Corporate Solutions including opportunities to lead programmes
• Assists the team in developing marketing plans; identifies, analyses and pursues growth opportunities
• Completes all underwriting processes and ensures business workflows are maintained
• Develops and grows a network of brokers and clients
• Underwrites the business in accordance with internal processes and guidelines
• Cooperates with other supporting functions e.g. Claims, Risk Engineering, Business Services etc.

Main tasks:

Client focus

• Develops and maintains a strategic dialogue and communicates proactively, timely and with transparency with clients and brokers
• Establish a broker network, participates in broker visits and contributes to building and maintaining broker relationships in order to ensure a steady flow of new submissions
• Develops and monitors action plans aligning client strategic priorities with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions capabilities.
• Negotiates with brokers
• Prepares quotations, structures programmes and offers proposals

Business focus

• Develops new business opportunities and is able to triage submissions quickly and effectively - identifying viable opportun
• Analyses business using existing tools combined with underwriting judgement
• Supports the development of marketing strategies to expand position on current accounts and cross-sells other lines of business in cooperation with colleagues
• Constantly looks for other areas and segments to engage in whilst developing our offerings in order to make them suit the market needs and practices

Leadership and Management

• Ensures and promotes regular communication within internal stakeholders as well as externally to clients.
• Good interpersonal, intercultural and social skills (communication, persuasiveness, team spirit)
• Energised and a "self-starter", able and willing to take initiative and implement measures in a goal-oriented manner

Compliance and Controlling

• Ensures compliance with all Swiss Re guidelines, underwriting and pricing parameters, best practices as well as Code of Conduct.
• Ensures accuracy and reliability of financial reporting for assigned clients.
• Ensures that relevant Group, Divisional and Business Unit deadlines are met.

About you

• University degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 3-5 years relevant experience in property underwriting of medium to large corporates including in a lead capacit
• Very good presentation and negotiation skills, customer focused approach
• Team player, willing to learn the business and apply it in daily interactions
• Willingness to travel as required
• Good numeracy skills, good PC and software skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Open-minded, trustworthy and enthusiastic.
• At ease with leaving the comfort zone and performing under pressure with deadlines.
• Ability to handle multiple deals in parallel without losing oversight.
• Ability to successfully manage conflicts
• High level of productivity and will to deliver

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.