Senior Underwriter Agriculture

About the role

Swiss Re is looking for a highly motivated agriculture underwriter with hands-on experience in agriculture insurance or reinsurance to join its Agriculture Reinsurance Team in Singapore. The role supports underwriting across Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and ANZ, with flexibility to support other APAC markets, and covers costing and pricing of treaties and facultative business, as well as origination of new business such as new agricultural schemes.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to the global agriculture portfolio strategy by identifying and originating new opportunities in the responsible markets.
• Underwrite, cost and price agricultural reinsurance business, including renewals and new deals, in line with Swiss Re's guidelines, pricing tools and best practices.
• Develop new agricultural insurance schemes, including product design, pricing and policy wording, with private and public sector partners, and build knowledge of index-based insurance solutions.
• Maintain client and agri-stakeholder relationships, play a key role in portfolio steering and client management, and build relationships with insurers, brokers and government entities.
• Take part in technical and market studies, publications and client training and consulting.
• Analyse agriculture insurance and reinsurance market data, collate pricing and claims data for business planning, and run the end-to-end underwriting process, including UW data system input and budgeting, with Business Services, Contract Wordings and Finance.

Required profile

• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant experience in insurance or reinsurance underwriting, actuarial or pricing.
• Graduate or post-graduate degree in Agriculture, Actuarial Science, Finance, Agronomy, Statistics, Computer Engineering, Insurance or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of agriculture business in Asia is an advantage; knowledge of emerging technology in agriculture insurance is also an advantage.

Required skills

• Strong technical understanding of agriculture pricing, exposure assessment and claims/loss experience analysis.
• Data analytics, data management and processing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft products such as Excel and PowerPoint.
• Effective communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to work accurately to deadlines.