Manager, Underwriting Portfolio Management

As an Underwriting Portfolio Manager, you will deliver analysis, conclusions, and recommendations that shape the underwriting portfolio, inform capital allocation, support capacity decisions, and drive portfolio-steering actions. This is a hands-on analytical role where you will work directly with underwriting data in Palantir and other analytical platforms to investigate portfolio questions, test hypotheses, assess trade-offs, and translate evidence into clear portfolio recommendations. You will form a point of view and remain involved through decision-making, implementation, and impact assessment.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the Group’s underwriting portfolio plan, including the Target Liability Portfolio and 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 brings together underwriting portfolio management, engineering, data, and advanced analytical capabilities. The team operates as one integrated group with team members holding distinct but complementary accountabilities and jointly responsible for priorities, quality, and impact.

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.
• Ability to interrogate 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.
• Ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear conclusions and recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Schedule

Our company operates under a hybrid work model, with the expectation that employees work from the office three days per week.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this position is between $164,000 to $246,000 for Armonk, NY, and between $156,000 to $234,000 for Alpharetta, GA; Chicago, IL; Fort Wayne, IN; and Kansas City, MO. The specific salary offered will take into account factors including 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).

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.