Senior Underwriter - Casualty – Scor Business Solutions (SBS)

SCOR; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SCOR Group is seeking a Senior Underwriter, Casualty for SCOR Business Solutions (SBS). The role focuses on underwriting complex casualty/EIL risks for France, Spain and Belgium, with emphasis on portfolio development, pricing and client/broker engagement.

The candidate should have extensive casualty underwriting experience, strong negotiation skills, and fluency in French and English, with willingness to travel internationally.

Qualifications

• Established underwriter with several years of underwriting experience in Casualty class of business.
• Proven underwriting skills including wording negotiation.
• Fluency in French and English and able to travel worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the existing Casualty/EIL portfolio for France, Spain, and Belgium.
• Analyze, select and underwrite submissions using a technical approach (pricing, wordings, terms & conditions).
• Ensure profitability and portfolio quality in line with SBS underwriting guidelines.
• Develop SBS’s Casualty/EIL market share in collaboration with EMEA commercial teams.
• Originate new business opportunities and maintain a regular flow of submissions.
• Promote SBS capabilities to brokers, corporate clients and ceding companies across EMEA and London market.
• Represent SCOR at industry events (seminars, conferences, client meetings).

Skills

Underwriting (Casualty)

Wording negotiation

Bilingual (FR/EN)

Education

Master’s degree in Insurance, Finance or Risk Management

Job description

Senior Underwriter - Casualty – Scor Business Solutions (SBS)

Job Description

The Senior Underwriter, Casualty is accountable for underwriting complex casualty/EIL risks not only for France but also for Spain and Belgium.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the existing Casualty/EIL portfolio (renewals, endorsements, claims involvement)
• Analyze, select and underwrite submissions using a technical approach (pricing, wordings, terms & conditions)
• Ensure profitability and portfolio quality in line with SBS underwriting guidelines
• Contribute to overall business results through sound and disciplined underwriting
• Develop SCOR’s Casualty/EIL market share in collaboration with EMEA commercial teams
• Originate new business opportunities and maintain a regular flow of submissions
• Promote SBS capabilities to brokers, corporate clients and ceding companies across EMEA and London market
• Represent SCOR at industry events (seminars, conferences, client meetings)

2. Business Development & Market Positioning

3. Client & Broker Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with brokers and key stakeholders across EMEA
• Conduct regular client meetings, risk visits and project site visits
• Ensure high-quality service and long-term partnership development
• Work closely with underwriting peers across the SBS network to ensure consistency and team alignment
• Collaborate with technical assistants, claims teams and internal stakeholders
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and business intelligence within the team
• Foster a strong team spirit across EMEA
• Produce and share portfolio analyses and market intelligence insights
• Report regularly on accounts, underwriting performance and commercial activity
• Ensure accuracy, completeness and timely entry of data in underwriting systems
• Maintain reliable data to support portfolio monitoring and decision-making

6. Governance, Compliance & Expertise

• Ensure underwriting practices comply with legal, regulatory and SBS frameworks
• Develop and maintain technical expertise in selected industries
• Contribute to continuous improvement of underwriting practices and standards

Qualifications

You are a Senior Underwriter with a former international or domestic experience, with a minimum of 8 yearsofexperiencewith exposure to all types of casualty risks.

• Established underwriter with several years of underwriting experience in Casualty class of business
• Proven underwriting skills including wording negotiation

Market recognition and sound reputation across insurance market

Established market relationships

Ideally Broking experience, industry or risk management experience, established client relationships, experience of writing international business

Active engagement and contribution to the global casualty team is essential, with a strong team spirit

• Knowledge of competitors, cedants, reinsurers and brokers within EMEA or internationally

An enquiring mindset with the ability to work independently as a motivated and pro-active self-starter.

Curious and willing to learn.

Commercial and tactical vision

Proficiency in the use of underwriting tools, ability to understand and assess the results

Organised and able to prioritise under pressure, high level of commitment

Ability to evaluate, condense and summarise key information

Fluency in French and English and able to travel worldwide.

Willing to perform under time pressure during peak activity renewal periods while ensuring adherence to processes and guidelines.

Education

You have a Master’s degree in Insurance, Finance or Risk Management.

About Us

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.