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About the Role

As an Underwriting Portfolio Manager, you will deliver analysis, conclusions, and recommendations to shape the underwriting portfolio, inform capital allocation, support capacity decisions, and drive portfolio-steering actions. This is a hands-on analytical role where you will work directly with underwriting data in Palantir and other analytical platforms to investigate portfolio questions, test hypotheses, assess trade-offs, and translate evidence into clear portfolio recommendations. You are expected to form a point of view and remain involved through decision-making, implementation, and impact assessment.

Responsibilities

Own and deliver the Group’s underwriting portfolio plan, including the Target Liability Portfolio and Group Capital Allocation Strategy, translating Group objectives, risk appetite, financial ambition, and market conditions into explicit portfolio choices.
Assess portfolio economics, risk, return, diversification, and capital consumption to produce clear capacity, allocation, and steering recommendations.
Work directly with Palantir and other analytical platforms to test hypotheses, interpret underwriting performance and exposure data, and form robust portfolio conclusions.
Identify material risks, concentrations, dependencies, and opportunities early enough to drive meaningful management action.
Translate analysis into specific steering actions, support governance decisions, track implementation, and adjust where outcomes are not being achieved.
Partner with portfolio engineering, data, and analytics colleagues to improve tools, workflows, and decision-support capabilities.
Communicate clear recommendations to underwriting, finance, risk, capital management, and senior leadership, while developing team capability across portfolio management, commercial judgment, and analytics.

Requirements

Experience analyzing underwriting portfolios and assessing performance, exposure, concentration, diversification, and portfolio risk.
Understanding of capital allocation, capacity-setting frameworks, risk-adjusted returns, and the trade-offs involved in deploying underwriting capacity.
Ability to interrogate complex datasets, test hypotheses, and produce decision-ready insight using Palantir or comparable modern data and analytical platforms.
Strong understanding of underwriting economics, market dynamics, and portfolio management within reinsurance or commercial insurance.
Ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear conclusions and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Skills

Underwriting portfolio analysis
Portfolio management
Data analysis
Palantir
Capital allocation
Risk assessment
Commercial judgment
Analytics

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced professional

Salary/Compensations

GBP 112,000 - GBP 168,000

About the Company

Swiss 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.
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 15,000 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.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people.

Equal Opportunity

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.