Engineer (all gender) Looking for a Career Change / Underwriter Industrial Property and Engineering

Zurich region – With work experience – 50% - 100%

40% FlexOffice /

Your department

Here, you can scale new heights: in Switzerland and on the international market, Helvetia Specialty Lines offers tailor-made insurance cover for transport, aviation, space, art and technology. So we can promise you: you will certainly not get bored here! Will you take up the challenge?

Your responsibility

Detailed underwriting analysis of Industrial Property accounts – review of exposures, insurance contract terms and conditions, pricing
Determination of loss expectancies, control of accumulations, capacity deployment
Negotiation of terms and conditions with brokers and clients
Develop an extensive knowledge of the broker network worldwide
Attend national and international client and broker meetings as well as site visits when necessary
Build up own portfolio, according to Helvetia Group Underwriting Directives and Guidelines Strategy
Close cooperation with our claims department for large and complex claims
Location: Zurich Stettbach and Flex-Office

Your qualification

You hold a university degree in Engineering with a few years of experience, ideally in Chemical or Metal Industry and are willing to develop as an Insurance / Reinsurance Underwriter
As an alternative, you already have some experience as Property underwriter and an appetite to learn about industrial processes
You have strong analytical skills as well as business acumen
You tackle challenges with passion and demonstrate high expectations of your own performance
You can develop stable partnerships across departmental boundaries and cooperate with internal and external stakeholders to meet common goals
You have a positive, agile, and team-oriented approach
Proficiency in English is a must, other European language(s) would be advantageous

Your contact

Alice-Alexandra KallRecruiting Partner

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What we offer

Flex Office enables people to work independently of time and place
Staff restaurants at our main locations
Above-average retirement provision benefits
Buy yourself extra vacation days
Attractive staff discounts and stock programmes

Flex Office enables people to work independently of time and place

Staff restaurants at our main locations

Above-average retirement provision benefits

Buy yourself extra vacation days

Attractive staff discounts and stock programmes

Your contact

Alice-Alexandra KallRecruiting Partner

For this position we cannot consider applications through recruitment agencies.

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