VP - Sr. Underwriter Property, Cedant Facultative Reinsurance,

SCOR

$225K — $304K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in insurance, risk management, math, engineering, or science
  • Minimum of 8 years in U.S. facultative property underwriting
  • Strong expertise in property lines and technical risk assessment
  • Experience with experience-based and exposure-based rating methodologies
  • Proficient in managing a book of business through market cycles
  • Good understanding of underwriting processes and regulatory considerations
  • Established relationships with key broking and cedant partners

Responsibilities

  • Support development and delivery of the facultative ceding strategy
  • Build collaborative relationships with colleagues to generate profitable business
  • Negotiate terms, pricing, and conditions for reinsurance solutions
  • Assist in managing and renewing facultative placements
  • Collaborate with analytics teams for reinsurance needs assessment
  • Maintain relationships with cedants and brokers, showcasing market expertise
  • Ensure accurate deal documentation and compliance with internal governance

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) Plan with competitive match
  • Company-funded retirement program
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Long- and Short-Term Disability
  • Flexible Parental Leave
  • Unlimited Sick Days
  • Volunteer Time
  • Summer Fridays
  • Learning & Development Resources
  • Personal Wellness Tools and Rewards
  • Competitively priced gym memberships
Full Job Description
Job Description

Within this role, you play a key role in SCORs facultative property reinsurance offering, across the United States, developing and strengthening relationships with cedants and brokers and collaborating internally with peers and counterparts in the global SCOR organisation.

As a senior underwriter for property, you will support business development efforts, including business origination and ongoing maintenance of SCORs facultative offering to cedants and brokers, in the region.

You support the achievement of the plan and contribute to the profitability of the cedant facultative transactions in the US and play an important part of the regional underwriting success. Your individual contributions help advance the regional and global cedant facultative ambition through sound technical and profitable underwriting.

These goals require experienced underwriting and commercial skills to develop SCOR's market share and leadership position across facultative reinsurance.

Responsibilities

Key duties and responsibilities

Strategic Client Engagement - Support the development & delivery of the regional facultative ceding strategy within your line of business by helping through originate placements that align capacity and risk appetite requirements

Team Collaboration - Build strong, collaborative relationships with reinsurance & insurance colleagues to help generate profitable business to ensure SCOR is represented consistently to clients

Market Negotiation - Negotiate terms, pricing and conditions to secure and provide the best possible facultative reinsurance solutions

Portfolio Optimisation - Assist in managing and renewing the existing portfolio of facultative placements, assessing placements against our risk profile, identify exposures and optimize capacity allocation

Analytics Discovery - Collaborate with analytics and risk modelling teams to determine optional facultative reinsurance needs based on exposure and loss scenarios

Client Management - Maintain constructive relationships with cedants and brokers, showcasing our position in the market, and additional value provided through our expertise

Operational Excellence - Ensure accurate and timely deal documentation, including reporting, reserving and claims settlements in conjunction with the relevant departments

Compliance - Ensure facultative placements meeting internal governance, compliance and regulatory requirements, aligned with the Internal Control System and guidelines within the region

New Market Ideation - Stay informed on market developments, pricing shifts, and capacity changes, using this market intelligence to optimise Facultative products, timing and portfolio management

Qualifications

Required experience & competencies
  • Degree in insurance, risk management, math, engineering or science
  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience in U.S. facultative property underwriting
  • Strong expertise in property lines, strong command of technical risk assessment, pricing, U.S. regulatory requirements, and market best practices
  • Experience in both experience-based and exposure-based rating methodologies for facultative property business
  • Experience building, managing, and steering a book of business through market cycles
  • Good understanding of value creation, end-to-end underwriting processes, and related actuarial, accounting, legal, and regulatory considerations
  • Exposure to working within matrixed organizations and fast-evolving international environments
  • Agile work style with a bias for action
  • Strong team orientation and collaborative mindset
  • Established relationships with key broking and cedant partners
  • Strong negotiation, presentation, and marketing capabilities

You may not meet every requirement listed in the job description. If you bring broad expertise and alignment to the role and resonate with our core values, we encourage you to apply.

Relocation assistance within the U.S. is available for this position. Candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Hybrid Work Policy:

SCOR is committed to an "in-office" culture where people can collaborate, exchange ideas, and establish stronger working relationships while ll 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.

At SCOR, we CARE about clients, people, and societies, and we are committed to placing them at the center of everything we do. Providing great benefit choices to you and your family is just one of the ways we support the physical, financial, and emotional well-being of the people who make our company successful - you.

Benefits We Offer
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) Plan with a competitive match
• Company-funded Defined Contribution Retirement Program
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Long- and Short-Term Disability
• Flexible Parental Leave
• Unlimited Sick Days
• Volunteer Time
• Summer Fridays
• Learning & Development Resources
• Personal Wellness Tools and Rewards
• Competitively priced gym memberships from a large nationwide network of gym brands and local fitness studios
• And More!

Pay Range for roles performed: 225,000 - 304,000 base salary per year. Actual salaries may vary based on various factors including

but not limited to location, experience, role and performance. The range listed is just one component of SCOR's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long term incentives. In addition, we provide a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance

coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement saving plan, paid holidays and paid time off.

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