Casualty Underwriter (m/f/d*) - Facultative & Corporate LA South

Are You Ready to Go Beyond and Push Boundaries with Munich Re?

Join our team in Bogotá as a Casualty Single-Risk Underwriter and play a key role in supporting facultative risk underwriting for Casualty lines across Latin America. Collaborate with top-tier clients in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and beyond to assess complex risks and deliver innovative, tailored solutions. If you’re passionate about driving excellence and making an impact in dynamic markets, this is your opportunity to excel.

Company
Munich Re
Location
Bogotá , Colombia

 

Munich Re Bogota is responsible for important and growing markets in Latin America such as Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia within its Underwriting Center function for F&C single risks lines of business. At our Casualty UW team in Bogota we strive to assure the highest standards in underwriting quality and excellence as well as to develop and provide business solutions with a clear focus on our clients.  

We are looking for a Casualty single-risk underwriter  (m/f/d*) focused on Casualty / TPL / D&O / Cyber Risks / Professional Indemnity to join our team.

Your Job:

• Assessing and underwriting Casualty single risks offers (proportional and non –proportional with a high degree of exposures analysis) for our clients in LA Region, including pricing, risk assessment, policy wording analysis, quotation, admin and documentation.
• Implementing business acquisition tactics in accordance with target portfolio, risk appetite, underwriting guidelines and authorities, client segmentation and business unit strategy.
• Closely interacting with clients, understanding their needs and business strategy for developing joint opportunities and providing tailor made solutions.
• Pro-active enhancement and expansion of business relationships in direct contact with cedants and brokers with a clear focus on acquisition of new profitable business. 
• Supporting managerial tasks of the department manager on matters such as strategy implementation, underwriting quality assurance and business development, closely interacting with the headquarters.
• Supporting treaty underwriting in client reviews for Casualty lines of business.
• Supporting local office and other areas  on technical questions and business development by taking a high degree of personal initiative and consistently exploiting all synergies available within Munich Re.
• Coordinating and facilitating local internal and regional UW procedures within UW Excellence Framework.
• Support seminars, workshops for clients on local and regional basis.
• Taking on special projects / initiatives, e.g. within multidisciplinary working groups and projects on local and regional scale.
• Actively contribute to ensure opinion leadership within the Casualty re/insurance community in the region.
• Working on market, customer and portfolio analyses, and providing ideas to generate new business and innovative (product) solutions. 
• Strategic and innovative vision of the business to support its development.

Your Profile: 

• University degree (preferably in Law, economy, Business Administration). MSc. Is a plus. 
• A minimum of 5 years single risks Casualty underwriting experience in reinsurance / direct insurance and/or claims.
• Experience on specific field of business practice / expertise desirable e. g. D&O, PI, Cyber
• Ability to work as a team player in multidisciplinary environments.
• High degree of client orientation, negotiation & marketing skills and interest in finding innovative client solutions.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to think out of the box.
• Preparedness to take ownership, proactive, highly self-motivated and target-oriented.
• Proven Intercultural competence and delight in working in international teams.
• High degree of commitment, flexibility and willingness to travel.
• Business-fluent (written and spoken) Spanish and English.  German is of advantage.

Benefits:

• Company Bonus (Group Financial Performance Dependant)
• Health &Life Insurance
• Company Pension Program
• 20 days annual leave plus additional wellness days
• Hybrid working
• Training & Development Programs

About us
As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 11,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Reintroduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk we enable fundamental change. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel. Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation. Sounds like you? Join us at Munich Re and Push Boundaries. With us.

*Munich Re not only stands for fairness with regard to its clients; it is also an equal opportunities employer. Severely disabled candidates will also be prioritized, if equally qualified.

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