Property Facultative Underwriter

This role is for an experienced Property Facultative Underwriter at Swiss Re in Hong Kong. You will manage a growing property reinsurance portfolio across Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, driving business origination, pricing complex risks, and adopting digital underwriting tools like SwiftRe. You'll collaborate with brokers and internal teams to ensure profitable growth and strong market presence.

Grow a profitable and balanced Property Facultative book across Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan; cross-sell, engage, and service brokers and clients with excellence. Serve as the primary underwriting contact for Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan Property Fac business, delivering high-quality, timely service while adhering to underwriting authority and guidelines. Support the development and execution of the Property Go-To-Market strategy, delivering planned portfolio targets and articulating risk appetites clearly to clients and brokers. Proactively manage the portfolio for sustainable profitable growth — monitor external risk trends, steer the portfolio toward profitability targets and Target Liability Profile. Drive business origination and strengthen broker and client relationships; build robust new business pipelines and improve renewal retention to maximize Swiss Re Fac's commercial position. Mitigate volatility and manage line size, exploring alternative approaches to write business profitably while meeting client needs. Ensure disciplined use of pricing and modelling tools, maintaining robust reflection of pricing to exposure and risk quality; proactively improve data transparency and accuracy. Support underwriting peer reviews and audits, and implement audit recommendations diligently. Proactively manage operational risks to ensure ORM compliance; contribute to internal risk reviews and the ORM process. Provide underwriting support to China and other Swiss Re offices and handle ad hoc tasks as required. Develop a profitable, diversified, and highly automated SwiftRe® portfolio, improving efficiency and automation within the underwriting control framework. Support the Senior Property Fac Underwriter in steering portfolios for profitable growth; contribute to underwriting parameter setting and optimization of automation and response times. Enhance SwiftRe® functionality, underwriting control, and user-friendliness in close collaboration with the SwiftRe® Product Team. Support product set-up and adapt generic products to local market needs. Ensure timely responses to clients and brokers; handle daily submissions, special acceptances, client queries, and support SwiftRe® client onboarding. Contribute to Swiss Re's market presence by working closely with Treaty Underwriters, Key Account Managers, and cross-functional teams. Provide technical training and advice to Swiss Re clients and internal functions. Liaise proactively with the Claims Team to stay informed on claims trends and client profitability issues. Streamline underwriting processes and workflows and lead or participate in projects as required.

Experience in writing multi-national programs / automated underwriting platform business, are added advantages. Innovative and comfortable with data analytics and leveraging technology for SwiftRe® underwriting and business development ad added advantage.