Senior Underwriter Casualty

**About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions**

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. 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.

**About Your Role**:
Based in one of our offices in Munich, Frankfurt or Hamburg, your role is a mix of underwriting and client interaction - two highly face paced areas that requires a very flexible approach - and you will be communicating directly with clients and brokers. Main tasks/activities are:

- Underwriting for new and existing clients in accordance with internal processes and guidelines while keeping the focus on satisfying the client needs
- Analyze and assess Casualty submissions in respect of exposure and coverages, prepare quotations, structure programs and offer proposals for lead domestic and international program business
- Broker and client visits in order to build and maintain relationships
- Develop strategies to adapt position on current accounts and to cross-sell other lines of business in collaboration with sales
- Establish and maintain knowledge of German insurance market in respects of wording, insurance law and regulation as well as brokers and competitors
- Mentoring and advising young professionals or Junior Underwriters as required
- Promote positive interaction and collaboration with internal peers
- Communicate actively, timely and with openness
- Represents Swiss Re in meetings with clients, brokers and other Swiss Re Group branches
- Contribute to project work, work in international teams and accept special assignments as required

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**About Your Team**

We pursue the goal of results-oriented Underwriting. The positive relationship with our customers and brokers in Germany and Austria in addition with our strong brand is basis for our success. With our continuous improvement attitude we desire to provide our external clients and internal peers with fast, easy and effective ways of conducting business within an environment where the risks are understood.

You will be integrated in the German Casualty team (consisting of Head Casualty & FinPro, (Senior) Underwriters Casualty, Underwriting Assistants and Business Services). The well attuned and highly motivated team is serving domestic and international clients for Corporate Solutions. The role will interact frequently with a number of stakeholders like Claims, Contracts, Product Underwriters, Operations, Actuaries and RES.

**About You**
- High level of (Casualty) insurance knowledge
- 7+ years of relevant experience in writing Casualty business for large and mid corporate costumers
- Strong network and good knowledge of the German Casualty market
- Negotiation skills
- Experience and understanding of Casualty risks
- Demonstrate ability on working team-orientated, efficiently and under pressure
- German native speaker and good knowledge of English language (written and spoken)
- Ability to coach and mentor less experienced Underwriters
- Regular business travels required

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.

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