Sr Underwriter, Cedant Fac. Reinsurance - Casualty LATAM

SCOR; Bogotá; Híbrido; COP 281.248.744 - 361.605.528; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work arrangement

Collaboration with industry experts

Descripción de la vacante

A global reinsurance leader is seeking a Senior Underwriter for Casualty LATAM, based in Bogotá. This role involves developing relationships, evaluating business proposals, and negotiating contracts while ensuring profitable underwritings aligned with company strategy. Candidates should have strong reinsurance experience and be fluent in Spanish and English. The position supports a hybrid work model, promoting a balance between office collaboration and remote flexibility.

Formación

• Strong underwriting experience across the market.
• High technical acumen of reinsurance and insurance principles.
• Spanish/English proficiency for discussions and reports.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver profitable growth and diversify the portfolio based on strategy.
• Evaluate offers, calculate pricing, and negotiate contract conditions.
• Collaborate with other regions and support cross-LOB growth.

Conocimientos

Commercial Business Acumen

Critical Thinking

Negotiation & Persuasion

Intellectual Curiosity

Emerging Risk Discovery

Educación

Qualified by experience, or degree

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Sr Underwriter, Cedant Fac. Reinsurance - Casualty LATAM at SCOR, Bogota, D.C., Capital District, Colombia.

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry - actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.

Role Overview

SCOR has created a new Facultative Reinsurance team to further our success in this market. Our focused approach will help secure our position as a market leader. This role begins by creating this book of business in collaboration with the wider Insurance and Reinsurance teams.

Within this role, you are responsible for SCOR's Facultative Casualty Reinsurance offering across LATAM, developing relationships with clients and our underwriters.

As a Senior Underwriter Casualty - LATAM, you will support the strategic engagement for our business development, including business origination and maintenance of the SCOR Cedent Facultative offering to clients and brokers in the region.

You play a key role in the achievement of the Plan, and for the profitability of the Cedent Facultative transactions in your regional line of business, being part of the success of the underwriting team within the region. Your plan contributions form part of the regional and global Cedent Facultative ambition and is achieved through sound technical and profitable underwriting.

These goals are achieved through your skill at developing SCOR's market share and leadership position across Cedent Facultative Reinsurance through enhancing the Group image in the market by efficient and innovative support of client needs, being the partner, our clients not only need, but ask for.

No two days are the same, but that is how we become the experts that our clients expect to work with. Producing and managing your portfolios of accounts, through the strong market relationships you have, is at the core of your role at SCOR. The guidelines we develop are built to support the underwriting business plan for your line of business, but you have the chance to do much more than that, by actively contributing to portfolio growth and diversification, supporting the overall organization strategy.

There is always a lot to do, but everything is linked to the overall results of SCOR, developing our market share, and enhancing our market image.

When you receive, select and evaluate offers of business from various sources, your role is to determine the quality of the proposal, analyze the exposure, identify the optimal facultative arrangement and ultimately negotiate the best terms for SCOR whilst satisfying the needs of the client. But we also want you to support the development of our submission pipeline and promote SCOR by pro-active marketing in line with the strategy and guidelines defined by us.

Business and Market relationships are key to yours and our success. By maintaining and developing these relationships with clients and brokers and attending broker and client hosted events, you get the chance to be part of our growth.

We want you to be curious and innovative. We see research and development as an important part of our work, with a desire to look at new areas of potential profitable growth.

It is also important to emphasize the importance of working as a team at SCOR. Whether it's across underwriting, or working closely with Claims and Pricing, we are successful because of this collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the team delivering profitable growth and diversify the portfolio in accordance with strategy and in accordance with Facultative Guidelines and practices


• Receive, select, and evaluate offers of business from various sources, calculate pricing, and negotiate conditions of the contracts


• Take time to identify, research, develop and report on new areas of profitable growth


• Be comfortable in marketing and cross selling the capabilities of other units across the Group, be it Treaties, AS, Specialty Lines or SBS to Managers, Brokers and Ceding Companies


• Develop marketing materials and intelligence documentation based on research and analysis of both the portfolio results and the market data


• Provide technical expertise, best practices and mentoring to underwriters in the region that assist in sourcing new business opportunities


• Collaborate with peers in other regions to share market intelligence, best practices but most importantly ensuring that our underwriting methodology is consistent throughout the World


• Assist other business lines in local market interactions to support cross-LOB growth


• Collaborate with the Claims Function in negotiating/resolving the claims arising from your portfolio


• Ensure data quality and reporting to all our IT systems

Desired Competencies

• Cycle Management - Having the ability to manage underwriting decisions and relationships around the market's cyclical nature; You can flex your mindset around underwriting strategy, capacity management, portfolio management and long-term partnerships to achieve successful and profitable underwriting decisions


• Commercial Business Acumen - You are able to negotiate profitable business with a structure that works for both client and SCOR


• Critical Thinking - You can assess complex risks, analyze market trends, and make data-driven underwriting decisions to improve profitability whilst mitigating exposure


• Negotiation & Persuasion - You can lead negotiations involving complex policies, ensuring client satisfaction and profitability, negotiating terms, resolving conflicts, and advocating for clients


• Entrepreneurial Spirit - You can identify new market opportunities, develop innovative products and adapt to emerging risks


• Intellectual Curiosity - You have the genuine desire to learn, understand and explore new ideas, concepts and perspectives, and produce credible industry collateral to place SCOR as a Market Thought Leader


• Emerging Risk Discovery - You focus on identifying and evaluating new risks, monitoring and assessing non-traditional risks, and developing strategies to address these risks

Desired Experience

• Strong underwriting experience across the market.


• High technical acumen of reinsurance and insurance principals.

Required Education

Qualified by experience, or degree

Required Languages

Spanish/English - Can lead discussions and negotiations at the highest level. Writes complex reports. Rarely makes grammatical mistakes.

Hybrid Work Policy

SCOR is committed to an “in-office” culture where people can collaborate, exchange ideas, and establish stronger working relationships while providing flexibility. To support employee work-life balance and increase opportunities for employees to excel every day, SCOR operates with a hybrid working arrangement. SCOR employees work 3 days per week in an office with the flexibility to work 2 days per week remotely.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Analyst, Business Development, and Strategy/Planning

Industries

• Financial Services and Insurance