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About the Role
This role combines technical treaty underwriting expertise, treaty contract knowledge, high-level actuarial understanding, portfolio steering, and market-facing leadership, with a strong focus on risk quality, capital efficiency, and long-term profitability across the reinsurance cycle. You will collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate individual treaties, steer client portfolios, and negotiate price and terms while shaping market dynamics.
Responsibilities
- Underwrite U.S. Global Property Treaty business across catastrophe and non-catastrophe structures, including quota share, cat and risk excess of loss, and aggregate covers, applying sound underwriting judgment and technical analysis.
- Analyze treaty submissions using exposure data, catastrophe modeling outputs, pricing frameworks, and qualitative risk assessment to ensure alignment with risk appetite and develop robust loss picks.
- Assess cedant performance, portfolio composition, underwriting philosophy, and risk controls, and structure treaties to appropriately balance risk and return.
- Review contract and policy language to ensure compliance with underwriting guidelines and consistency with intended risk transfer.
- Act as a trusted underwriting partner and visible market representative, fostering strong relationships externally with brokers and Ceded Re colleagues, disciplined risk selection, and a collaborative, solution-oriented team culture.
- Mentor and coach junior underwriters to build necessary skills to support clients and manage market cycles.
Requirements
- Minimum 7+ years of experience in reinsurance or primary underwriting, portfolio management or pricing function (property experience a plus).
- Strong understanding of (re)insurance underwriting, property market dynamics, and key strategic drivers influencing insurer performance.
- Proven ability to distill and communicate complex analyses to executive-level stakeholders internally and externally.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams across geographies.
- Strong ability to incorporate market intelligence and forward-looking views into underwriting and pricing recommendations.
- Limited travel required mostly across the US, primarily for client engagement.
Skills
- Technical treaty underwriting expertise
- Treaty contract knowledge
- High-level actuarial understanding
- Portfolio steering
- Market-facing leadership
- Risk quality focus
- Capital efficiency focus
- Long-term profitability focus
- Catastrophe modeling
- Pricing frameworks
- Qualitative risk assessment
- Risk appetite alignment
- Loss pick development
- Cedant performance assessment
- Portfolio composition analysis
- Underwriting philosophy assessment
- Risk controls assessment
- Treaty structuring
- Contract review
- Policy language review
- Underwriting guidelines compliance
- Risk transfer consistency
- Relationship building
- Market representation
- Disciplined risk selection
- Collaborative team culture
- Solution-oriented approach
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Strategic thinking
- Analytical skills
- Intellectual curiosity
- Quantitative insight translation
- Mature judgment
- Proactive problem-solving
- Business acumen
- Market intelligence incorporation
- Forward-looking views
Location
- Schaumburg, IL
- Armonk, NY
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Hybrid
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $156,000 to $234,000 (Schaumburg, IL)
- $164,000 to $246,000 (Armonk, NY & New York, NY)
Benefits
- Total compensation approach considering base pay, short- and long-term incentives, and benefits offered.
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.
- 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.
- We encourage experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break to apply for open positions that match their skills and experience.
- We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position.
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.