Key Responsibilities
Underwriting and Business focus:
· Underwrite profitable facultative Property business
· Operate in accordance with the marketing objectives, strategies and plans developed by the Singapore/SEA Property Facultative Team and Product Centre
· Provide high quality, timely and appropriate underwriting service to clients, in keeping with underwriting authorities and Corporate Governance Rules
· Contribute to robust new business pipelines and manage renewal to maximise the Company commercial position and pricing adequacy
· Diligent use of pricing/modelling tools and robust reflection of pricing to exposure and risk quality
· Proactively improve data transparency and accuracy
· Provide underwriting support to other Swiss Re offices, if required
· Provide high quality, timely and appropriate underwriting service to clients and brokers
· Develop and implement facultative reinsurance solutions for our clients
· Demonstrate robust capability in formally preparing for and conducting quality meetings with clients to identify business opportunities
· Actively seek and procure opportunities in the market through high quality client and broker interactions, relationship building and engagement
· Positively contribute to Swiss Re's reputation, profile, and brand
· Support client relationships between appropriate SRAL staff and client staff across the range of reinsurance related functions
· Participate in cross functional team initiatives
· Proactively liaise with the Claims Team to stay abreast of claims trends and issues of the market/client companies and their profitability
· Participate in project teams as required
· Ad hoc tasks as needed
SwiftRe® responsibility:
· Develop a profitable, diversified and highly automated SwiftRe® portfolio, improve efficiency and automation within the underwriting control framework
· Steer the SwiftRe® portfolios for profitable growth, contribute to underwriting parameters setting, optimizing automation, response time and underwriting control
· Promote SwiftRe® propositions, develop new partners, expand into new territories, and deepen penetration in existing markets and partners
· Become SwiftRe® product expert and first port of call to clients and internal cross-functional teams in any SwiftRe® matter
· Ensure timely response to clients, manage daily referrals (jMetro), provide coaching to clients, and support SwiftRe® on/off-boarding
Knowledge & Skills
· Knowledge of industrial and commercial property underwriting: all classes of insured risk, contractual details/setup
· 5 years or more of relevant costing/pricing experience for complex risk and up-to-date with insurance and reinsurance products
· Market knowledge as underwriter/broker, preferably in Southeast Asia; experience in other emerging markets will be considered
· Completed ACII qualification is an advantage
· Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, multi-cultural matrix organisation
· Taking ownership, accountability; going the extra mile to get things done, both internally and externally
· Delivering superior service to our clients/brokers
· Ability to learn and deliver under pressure
· At ease with going outside of own comfort zone
· Strong team player
· Effective communicator, both written and verbally
· Efficient and pragmatic
