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About the Role

As Head Surety UK & Ireland, you will lead Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' surety business, focusing on maximizing underwriting performance through strategic vision and hands-on leadership. You will collaborate with the Regional Surety Head to define the local portfolio strategy, manage key client and broker relationships, and motivate your team to achieve top and bottom-line results while ensuring adherence to business plans, underwriting standards, and risk appetite.

Responsibilities

Lead a dedicated team of underwriters focused on originating new business relationships, products, and transaction opportunities across the UK & Ireland and international markets.
Drive talent development by contributing to recruiting, onboarding, and facilitating regional underwriting training and technical growth programs.
Deliver country targets for the local surety team, ensuring alignment with broader regional and group ambitions.
Shape and execute the country-specific surety strategy, defining priorities for key ongoing and future business initiatives including new markets and new products.
Lead and execute strategic underwriting initiatives such as International Bonding, and represent Swiss Re Surety to external stakeholders in the market.
Drive the development of appropriate UW standards for the country in close alignment with global Credit & Surety standards and ensure correct implementation of end-to-end processing.
Steer the country surety portfolio, continuously enhancing monitoring, analysis, guidance, and tactical execution.
Drive capacity planning at obligor, country, and portfolio levels to ensure sustained profitability in line with cycle steering initiatives.
Proactively identify key market trends and translate insights into actionable portfolio steering decisions.
Contribute to the design and implementation of underwriting-relevant IT infrastructure projects.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in underwriting surety, commercial banking, and/or credit-risk related financial services, with demonstrable market knowledge and a strong professional reputation.
Strong leadership capability with experience building and developing high-performing underwriting teams, including talent recruitment, onboarding, and technical development.
Proven track record of successfully managing a profitable surety or credit portfolio across the business cycle, with end-to-end understanding of the Surety value chain.
Strategic, analytical and conceptual thinking with an entrepreneurial mind-set focused on delivering results.
Deep industry network across the UK & Ireland surety and/or broader banking market, with the ability to represent the business credibly at senior levels.
Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills for client-facing, regulatory, and internal stakeholder engagement.

Location

UK & Ireland

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years

Salary/Compensations

GBP 106,000 - GBP 158,000

Benefits

Attractive performance-based variable compensation component.
Variety of global and location specific benefits.

About the Company

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, anticipating and managing risks from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group, offering innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from approximately 50 locations worldwide.
We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, and our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Equal Opportunity

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces 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.
We encourage experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break to apply for open positions that match their skills and experience.