Underwriting / Product Management

Senior Underwriting Expert (all genders) Center of Excellence Liability

Workload: 50% - 100% Place of work: Basel / Zürich / St.Gallen Level of experience: With work experience FlexOffice: on-site
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Support the Head of the Centre of Excellence (CoE) Liability in establishing and developing the Group-wide Center of Excellence and advancing Helvetia's Global Specialist Strategy. Work with local teams to strengthen underwriting standards, support portfolio development and enable profitable growth in Liability. Apply your technical expertise to assess complex risks, guide underwriting and improve processes and pricing, while sharing knowledge and best practices across markets.

What you'll be doing

  • Help develop group-wide Liability underwriting guidelines and a consistent framework, with appropriate governance and reporting.
  • Work with local teams on business cases, strategies and market activities that support profitable growth and healthy margins.
  • Bring your expertise to complex Liability risks, support underwriting decisions beyond local authority levels and contribute to technical underwriting reviews.
  • Help improve underwriting processes, pricing approaches and portfolio management tools, identifying opportunities for synergies across the Group.
  • Build connections with colleagues across the Group to share best practices and strengthen Liability underwriting expertise.
  • Share your knowledge through tailored underwriting training and help plan, organize and deliver Liability workshops.
  • Identify and collect emerging risk signals, assessing their potential relevance and impact on Liability underwriting.
  • Work Place: Basel or Zurich Stettbach or St. Gallen and Flex-Office

What you'll bring to the role

  • You draw on broad Liability experience across product development, pricing, underwriting and claims, supported by an understanding of reinsurance basics. Portfolio management experience is a welcome plus.
  • Your expertise spans General Liability, Product Liability and Professional Indemnity within Corporate Liability, ideally complemented by Financial Lines and/or Specialty Liability.
  • You bring hands-on underwriting experience in Upper Mid-Market and Corporate business, including international and cross-border risks.
  • You connect easily with others, communicate clearly and build support for ideas across countries and cultures.
  • You have a passion for Liability Insurance and for building, fostering, and sharing technical excellence across an international organization
  • You turn strategy into practical action, with a track record of supporting change and delivering profitable growth.
  • You work confidently in English. German is highly desirable, and Spanish, French or Italian would be a welcome addition.

Your contact

Alice-Alexandra KallRecruiting Partner

What we offer

FlexOffice

Flexible work in the office, from home or on the go

Insurance & pension solutions

Discounts on insurance and pension solutions

Holiday purchase

Buy yourself extra vacation days

Training and development

Attractive training and development opportunities for your personal development

Retirement plan

Above-average retirement provision benefits

Do you have any questions?

For this position we cannot consider applications through recruitment agencies.

Your contact person

Alice-Alexandra Kall
Alice-Alexandra Kall
Recruiting Partner

Your manager

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