Regional Casualty Technical Underwriting Specialist, APAC

AIG APAC HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Singapore is seeking a Regional Technical Underwriter to enhance its Casualty portfolio. You’ll play a critical role in supporting growth strategies, maintaining key industry relationships, and driving a culture of excellence in underwriting. Ideal candidates should have expertise in Casualty insurance and a track record of profitable growth. Join us for an opportunity to set new industry standards while thriving in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in Casualty liability Underwriting.
• Significant liability insurance experience across Asia-Pacific.
• Proven track record in delivering profitable growth.

Responsibilities

• Support the achievement of business mix goals and the deployment of capacity.
• Maintain strong customer and industry relationships.
• Drive a culture of high-performance and market excellence.

Skills

Casualty liability Underwriting

Analytical skills

Business acumen

Portfolio management

Job description

Join us as a Regional Technical Underwriter to make a bigger business impact with your Casualty skills and wider talents.

Make your mark in Casualty

AIG Underwriting teams help to find insurance solutions in areas including Financial Lines, Property, Casualty, Specialty Lines, Cyber, and Multinational Clients. We are reimagining how we help customers to manage risk, transforming our operating model and reshaping our role responsibilities and career pathways. The goal is to unlock the full potential in each colleague – empowering our people to grow as insurance professionals and add more value to our customers and AIG.

How you will create an impact

Casualty is a strategically critical product for AIG Asia-Pacific. This role is critical to enabling and supporting the future growth of the portfolio across the region.

This role is instrumental in supporting AIG’s go-to-market growth strategy for our Casualty business, not only in providing technical support to the teams in APAC, but also in leading the teams in market engagement, key account strategies and solution-oriented underwriting. The role is part of the Casualty leadership team for the region. You will be responsible for supporting the execution of business strategies and transformation of those strategies into meaningful outcomes and, ultimately, business results. As a Senior Leader, you collaboratively reach across geographical and functional boundaries to create relationships that further the objectives and market position of AIG and AIG Casualty. Your deep and broad industry knowledge allows you to foresee external conditions that could potentially affect AIG’s future. Your excellent technical capabilities enable you to identify and structure client-oriented solutions to serve the needs of our key clients and distribution partners.

Key accountabilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Supporting the achievement of business mix goals focusing on the implementation of strategy and the deployment of capacity, aligned with our global and regional Casualty appetite, Business Rules and Underwriting Guidelines
• Establishment and maintenance of strong customer/industry relationships including:Broker relationships at all levels of wholesale, local and international broking firms
  Direct relationships with clients where necessary to support the local business teams
• Supporting the profitable underwriting of all liability classes of business including new and renewal business within the underwriting authorities granted and in accordance with Profit Centre guidelines. Support includes, but is not limited to, reviewing and signing-off referrals from underwriters across the APAC region; providing input on Policy Interpretation; providing Input on application of Line of Business Rules and Guidelines
• Driving a culture of high-performance and market excellence, including the continual review and development of existing Products and the development of new Products including associated Marketing material
• Ensure all product Risk Management and governance is arranged in accordance with current company guidelines
• Attain appropriate levels of expertise in all product lines including changes and developments
• Preparation and delivery of required training and development in all areas of Casualty underwriting and Casualty products
• Complete all delegated projects in the manner expected and requested by the Head of Liability, APAC of Global CUO Liability
• Develop and improve office systems on an ongoing basis including the department's self-audit procedures
• Assisting local teams and Profit Centre Managers on any other aspect Identified as needing support In order to meet their key targets

What you’ll need to succeed

• Demonstrated experience through prior positions in Casualty liability Underwriting
• Significant liability insurance experience, including oversight over products and geographies across Asia-Pacific
• Proven track record of delivering profitable growth in a sizable and relevant general insurance product line
• Deep expertise in Casualty Insurance with expert technical underwriting background
• Strong business acumen, with a proven track record of making sound judgment backed by strong analytical, quantitative, process and systems skills
• Knowledge of major insurance markets across the region
• Strong understanding of portfolio management and ability to enable underwriters to be managers of their own portfolios

Ready to set new industry standards? We would love to hear from you.

At AIG, we value in-person collaboration as a vital part of our culture, which is why we ask our team members to be primarily in the office. This approach helps us work together effectively and create a supportive, connected environment for our team and clients alike.