LATAM Climate Underwriter & Growth Leader

AXA Climate; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA Climate seeks a senior leader to drive Business Development & Growth across LATAM, forging partnerships with brokers, insurers, and public sector bodies. You will lead underwriting strategy for climate-related products and oversee risk assessment across markets, working with Paris-based teams to align governance and risk appetite.

Fluent in Spanish and English, with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills, you will build markets from the ground up and represent AXA Climate at

Qualifications

• 7+ years in underwriting or related fields.
• Experience in LATAM markets and broker ecosystems.
• Fluent in Spanish and English; Portuguese is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute AXA Climate’s commercial growth strategy across LATAM markets.
• Originate new business opportunities with brokers, insurers, public sector institutions, NGOs, and financial partners.
• Build strategic partnerships and distribution channels in priority markets including Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil.
• Represent AXA Climate at industry conferences and market events.
• Contribute to underwriting strategy and execution for climate-related insurance and parametric products across Latin America with the support of Paris-based underwriting team.
• Oversee opportunity selection, deal qualification, and portfolio development across priority markets and serve Latin American clients/partners within AXA Climate governance and risk appetite.
• Provide strategic judgment on market entry opportunities, risk appetite alignment, and transaction feasibility.
• Support contract structuring and implementation by helping navigate local legal frameworks, regulatory environments, and operational constraints.
• Structure and price weather-related parametric products for EMEA clients (agriculture yield, frost, excess of precipitation, drought, hail, temperature, flood, tropical cyclone, etc.).
• Design trigger mechanisms and payout structures adapted to clients’ needs.
• Develop models and enhance the understanding of the underlying index.
• Provide quantitative and qualitative risk assessment of the perils.
• Establish and ensure adherence to underwriting guidelines to ensure consistency and compliance with risk appetite, compliance standards, internal governance framework and legal requirements.
• Manage and monitor risk accumulation by peril and geographic region. Identify large deals and collaborate with reinsurance partners to secure necessary capacity.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

AXA Climate seeks a senior leader to drive Business Development & Growth across LATAM, forging partnerships with brokers, insurers, and public sector bodies. You will lead underwriting strategy for climate-related products and oversee risk assessment across markets, working with Paris-based teams to align governance and risk appetite.

Fluent in Spanish and English, with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills, you will build markets from the ground up and represent AXA Climate at