SCOR

Underwriter Manager, Casualty/EIL

SCOR  •  Republic of France (Onsite)  •  5 hours ago
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Job Description

The Underwriter Manager, Casualty/EIL combines senior underwriting expertise with team leadership responsibilities.

The role is accountable for underwriting complex casualty/EIL risks not only for France but also for Spain and Belgium, while managing and developing a team of underwriters. It ensures high-quality underwriting decisions aligned with risk appetite and profitability objectives, while fostering team performance, technical excellence, and client service.

The position also contributes to portfolio steering and strategic development of the Casualty/EIL Business business.

1. Underwriting & Portfolio Management

  • 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

4. Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing

  • 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

5. Reporting, Data & Business Intelligence

  • 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

7. Team Management & Development

  • Lead, manage, and develop a team of 3 underwriters
  • Set objectives, monitor performance, and conduct regular reviews
  • Coach team members to enhance technical underwriting skills and autonomy
  • Foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment
  • Support talent development, succession planning, and recruitment when needed

You are a senior casualty underwriter with a former international or domestic experience, with a minimum of 8 years of experience with exposure to all types of casualty risks and you have ideally some experiences in team management.

  • 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

  • Leadership and people development

  • 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.

  • Decision-making and accountability

Education

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

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.

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About SCOR

SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, provides its clients with a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. Using its experience and expertise, “The Art & Science of Risk”, SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk – in Life & Health as well as in P&C.

The reinsurance industry is about combining technical expertise and experience with the developments of science. However many tools we use to conduct our activities (models, databases, pricing tools, reserving tools, and so on), we also need expert judgments and human experience to correctly underwrite. This is what we call the art of underwriting. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry. Expertise is an accumulation variable.

The most advanced tool will never replace the intuition of a seasoned underwriter facing a complex risk. Because at the end of the day, you have to make a decision, to sign, to underwrite. And what we have underwritten, we cannot overwrite - our word is our bond, as is our signature. This dimension of our business, linked to the art of underwriting, is more important than some observers would have people believe.

One way to acquire this art is to share experiences – both good and bad – and to share doubts and questions. Artists always belong to a school, from which they learn their craft.

Like artists, we have to learn, imitate, mimic, and then innovate, in order to find our own style and create our own distinctive work.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Paris, FR
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
scor.com
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