Senior Facultative Casualty Underwriter

We are seeking an ambitious Casualty Underwriter who is inspired to build a meaningful career at Swiss Re, bringing their skills, drive, and curiosity to grow within our Reinsurance Division and contribute to one of the world’s leading global reinsurance organizations.

About the Role

You will join our Singapore Facultative team and drive profitable growth by building and expanding a Casualty facultative portfolio primarily across Hong Kong and Taiwan, while extending your market impact across the fast-growing Southeast Asia region. In this front-line role, you will execute Swiss Re Facultative’s go-to-market strategies, strengthen our market presence, and deliver high-value solutions to brokers and clients.

The role offers exceptional regional exposure, with hands-on involvement in peak renewals and four-eye consultations across multiple Asian markets—providing enhanced visibility, accelerated learning, and a broader commercial perspective.

At Swiss Re, performance drives opportunity. Your success will be measured by bottom-line growth, portfolio quality, and your ability to create sustainable value—directly shaping your career progression.

Reporting to the Head of Casualty Facultative, Greater China and Southeast Asia, this position offers high visibility, meaningful responsibility, and a clear platform for growth within a leading global reinsurance organization.

Key Responsibilities

Underwriting and Business focus:

• Be the first port of call for Fac business, and provide high quality, timely and appropriate service to clients and brokers whilst complying with underwriting authority and guidelines
• Grow a profitable and balanced Casualty Facultative book in accordance with the planned portfolio targets and Go-To Market strategy, within stated underwriting guidelines and other governance rules.
• Drive both single risk and facility growth and unlock opportunities in small to mid-sized industrial and commercial segments.
• Monitors portfolio metrics and observe external risk landscape & trends and steer portfolios to reach profit targets and the Target Casualty Portfolio
• Mitigates volatility, manages line size and explores alternative approaches that allows us to write business profitably and meet client needs.
• Provides high quality and timely underwriting service to brokers and clients
• Actively seeks and procures opportunities in the market through high quality client and broker interactions, relationship building and engagement
• Builds strong new business pipelines and boosts renewal retention to strengthen Swiss Re Fac’s commercial position and pricing adequacy.
• Develop and monitor budgets and business plans to ensure timely steering and reporting.
• Ensures diligent use of pricing / modelling tools and robust reflection of pricing to exposure and risk quality, proactively improves data transparency and accuracy
• Cross sells Property and other lines of business where possible
• Helps train and retain underwriting talent
• Supports underwriting peer reviews & audits and implements audit recommendations
• Provides underwriting support to other Swiss Re offices and handles ad hoc tasks as needed.
• Drive business origination and enhance relationship building with clients and brokers
• Improve efficiency & productivity
• Proactively manage operational risks and ensure Operational Risk Management (ORM) compliance and contribute to the ORM process and internal risk reviews

About the Team

This is a unique opportunity to join Swiss Re’s Singapore Casualty Facultative Team and be part of the Asia P&C Facultative Underwriting community across our Asia Pacific business units. United by a shared vision, we work collaboratively to grow our Facultative business across Asia—from Japan and Korea to Greater China, Southeast Asia, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

In this role, you will be a valued member of a newly formed, high-energy team that champions entrepreneurial thinking, strong teamwork, underwriting excellence, and resilience—while actively supporting your personal and professional growth.

You will broaden your expertise across major casualty and financial lines, including Motor and Group Personal Accident, and gain meaningful regional exposure through peak renewals and cross-market collaboration across Asia.

You will thrive in a collaborative, multicultural environment that empowers ownership, values excellence, and is deeply committed to delivering outstanding client service.

About You

• Technical university degree, law preferred; or vast experience in (re-)insurance business.
• 12+ years of relevant underwriting experience, with strong, up-to-date knowledge of insurance and reinsurance products and market dynamics, or experience in a comparable reinsurance or broker role. Preferable in  North Asia markets; experience in other emerging markets will also be considered.
• Experience across APAC and Southeast Asia markets is an added advantage.
• Proven underwriting experience in Casualty and Financial Lines, including Motor and Personal Accident products.
• Strong expertise in underwriting facultative facilities; experience in Casualty Treaty underwriting is an advantage.
• Established market network and client/broker relationships.
• Willingness to travel as required based on business needs.
• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, matrix, and multicultural environment, demonstrating ownership, accountability, and a strong service mindset when engaging with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to perform under pressure, adapt quickly, and step confidently outside of one’s comfort zone.
• Proven track record as a successful salesperson and deal maker.
• Strong team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Efficient, pragmatic, and execution-focused, with a consistent ability to deliver results.