Director, Underwriting Portfolio Management, US

Accountable for delivering the underwriting portfolio plan, the underwriting contribution to Group capital allocation, capacity recommendations, and steering actions that improve the risk-adjusted performance and resilience of the underwriting portfolio. This is a hands-on analytical leadership role, working directly with underwriting data in Palantir and other analytical platforms to investigate portfolio questions, test hypotheses, form conclusions, and translate those conclusions into recommendations and implemented management actions.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the underwriting portfolio plan, including TLP / Group Capital Allocation Strategy, translating Group objectives, risk appetite, financial ambition, and market conditions into explicit portfolio choices.
• Assess portfolio economics, risk, return, diversification, and capital consumption to produce clear capacity, allocation, and steering recommendations.
• Work directly with Palantir and other analytical platforms to test hypotheses, interpret underwriting performance and exposure data, and form robust portfolio conclusions.
• Identify material risks, concentrations, dependencies, and opportunities early enough to drive meaningful 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, while developing team capability across portfolio management, commercial judgement, and analytics.

About The Team

The Portfolio Strategy & Steering team combines underwriting portfolio management, engineering, data, and advanced analytics. It operates as one integrated team, with two Directors leading specialist teams, allocating resources to shared priorities, and jointly accountable for quality and impact.

Requirements

• Proven experience analyzing and managing complex underwriting portfolios, with the ability to translate evidence into explicit portfolio choices, capacity recommendations, steering actions, and measurable performance improvement.
• Deep expertise in capital-allocation processes, capacity-setting frameworks, and the analysis of risk, return, diversification, and capital consumption, with the ability to develop and challenge senior-level allocation recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to interrogate large and complex datasets, test hypotheses, and produce decision-ready insight using Palantir or comparable modern data and analytical platforms.
• Strong understanding of underwriting economics, market dynamics, and portfolio management within reinsurance or commercial insurance.
• Proven ability to present complex analytical conclusions clearly and concisely and to influence senior stakeholders across underwriting, finance, risk, and capital management.

Schedule

Hybrid work model, with the expectation that employees work from the office three days per week every week.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this position for Armonk, NY is between $220,000 to $330,000 and for Alpharetta, GA; Chicago, IL; Fort Wayne, IN; and Kansas City, MO, the range is between $208,000 to $312,000. The specific salary offered will take into account factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. Swiss Re takes a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions, considering all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short- and long-term incentives, and benefits offered).

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.