Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Management

Swiss Re seeks a Manager for Underwriting Portfolio Management in Zürich to drive capital allocation and portfolio steering through advanced data analysis.

This position focuses on delivering the strategic direction for the underwriting portfolio by analyzing data, testing hypotheses, and providing clear recommendations. The role goes beyond administrative coordination, requiring direct engagement with underwriting metrics to influence capacity decisions and capital allocation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Group’s underwriting portfolio plan, including the Target Liability Portfolio and Group Capital Allocation Strategy.
• Convert Group objectives, risk appetite, and market conditions into specific portfolio choices.
• Evaluate portfolio economics, risk, return, diversification, and capital consumption to generate capacity and steering recommendations.
• Utilize Palantir and other analytical platforms to test hypotheses, interpret performance data, and form robust portfolio conclusions.
• Identify material risks, concentrations, dependencies, and opportunities early to drive management action.
• Translate analysis into specific steering actions, support governance decisions, track implementation, and adjust where outcomes are not being achieved.
• Partner with portfolio engineering, data, and analytics colleagues to improve tools, workflows, and decision-support capabilities.
• Communicate clear recommendations to underwriting, finance, risk, capital management, and senior leadership.
• Develop team capability across portfolio management, commercial judgement, and analytics.

Requirements

• Experience analyzing underwriting portfolios and assessing performance, exposure, concentration, diversification, and portfolio risk.
• Understanding of capital allocation, capacity-setting frameworks, risk-adjusted returns, and the trade-offs involved in deploying underwriting capacity.
• Strong understanding of underwriting economics, market dynamics, and portfolio management within reinsurance or commercial insurance.
• Ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear conclusions and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

What the company offers

• Hybrid work model with expectation to be in the office at least three days per week.
• Open to making the hire across any Swiss Re office within Europe and North America.

About the company

• The company anticipates and manages a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
• Success depends on building an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.
• The environment allows everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.