Job Description

About The Team:

Corporate Solutions Crisis Management is the fastest growing unit in North America. The team is looking to further expand, develop and launch new products.

North America Crisis Management Team is looking for a highly motivated person who is interested in working in a dynamic environment and helping to manage and grow an existing portfolio. Specifically, you will be responsible for the generation of opportunities, underwriting and pricing of risks, steering of your portfolio, managing of relationships as well as contribute to key strategy discussions within the group. The candidate should be able to manage multiple tasks while executing on an underwriting, growth and profitability strategy for the unit.

About The Role:

This position offers a unique opportunity to join a growing team within Corporate Solutions. The position will report directly to the unit head and consists of the following functions:

• Source and generate new business opportunities; small, middle market and large/complex risks
• Underwrite renewal and new risks
• Provide sound pricing analysis based upon thorough review of loss scenarios
• Provide key input into risk appetite as well as market feedback
• Develop, nurture and grow relationships with key producers and brokers
• Service book of business in a timely fashion
• Interact with claims, contacts, products to underwriter to open claims, losses, make recommendations on manuscript wordings to address ambiguities in coverage
• Provide key input into risk appetite as well as market feedback
• Develop, nurture and grow relationships with key producers and brokers
• Manage complex accounts, and deliver innovative solutions to existing and prospective clients
• Inherit existing renewal book while building a new portfolio

The work location for this role is flexible to Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, or Alpharetta, GA. 

About You:

• Educational/Professional
  • University graduate with a primary or higher degree (or equivalent)
  • Minimum 3 to 5 years underwriting experience or equivalent for Underwriter level
  • Understanding of loss and combined ratios
  • Experience in product contamination and recall is not required but helpful
• Key skills and knowledge
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills
  • Ability to drive the deal process with brokers and generate a plus 20% hit ratio
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to inspire and challenge others
  • Capable of building trust with all areas of the business in particular internally with other underwriters and externally with brokers
  • Ability to provide market feedback and help hone division wide growth and profitability strategy
  • Excellent command of English (spoken and written)
  • Stress resilient, with the ability to work independently
  • Demonstrate personal accountability for area of responsibility
  • Occasional travel (almost exclusively domestic)
  • Team player: ability to interact and collaborate with others is critical

For New York City the estimated base salary range for this position is $120,000 to $192,000.  The specific salary offered for this or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

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