D Underwriter Credit & Surety - CorSo

Are you a credit risk professional looking to take your career to the next level in one of the most dynamic and specialized areas of the reinsurance industry? At Swiss Re, we combine deep expertise with a global perspective — and we're looking for a curious, analytically driven individual who is ready to own underwriting decisions and help us grow our Credit & Surety Reinsurance portfolio across Europe.

If you thrive on complex risk assessment, taking accountability for your decisions, building meaningful client relationships, and shaping business strategy, this could be the role for you.

This is a rare opportunity to join Swiss Re's Credit & Surety Reinsurance Europe team in Zurich — a team at the heart of one of the most specialized and intellectually stimulating corners of the reinsurance world. You will play an active role in assessing and underwriting treaty and facultative reinsurance opportunities, taking full ownership of your underwriting decisions, engaging directly with leading insurers across Europe, and contributing to portfolio strategy and business growth.

Whether your background is in Credit & Surety (re) insurance, credit risk management, trade finance, corporate banking, or a related financial discipline, we want to hear from you.

• Assess and underwrite treaty and facultative reinsurance opportunities, evaluating risk profile, exposure, profitability and portfolio impact through robust analysis and sound underwriting judgement
• Own and be accountable for underwriting recommendations and decisions, exercising independent judgement, standing behind your assessments, and ensuring decisions are in line with Swiss Re's risk appetite, governance framework and strategic objectives
• Negotiate reinsurance terms and conditions with clients and brokers, ensuring commercially sound and mutually beneficial outcomes
• Build and develop strong client relationships with insurance companies, brokers and other market participants across Europe, actively contributing to the identification of new business opportunities
• Monitor market developments, emerging risks and portfolio performance to inform underwriting decisions and support sustainable business growth
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders including Client Markets, Credit Risk Management, Claims, Contracts, Business Services and Finance, ensuring seamless end-to-end execution

Credit & Surety Reinsurance at Swiss Re provides tailored reinsurance solutions to insurers writing Trade Credit, Surety and Political Risk business across the globe. Our Europe team is a close-knit, highly international group that works with some of the most prominent insurers in the region, spanning diverse markets, products and client segments.

As part of this team, you will benefit from a collaborative culture that values knowledge-sharing, intellectual curiosity and professional development. You will work alongside colleagues across Europe, the Americas and Asia, gaining exposure to a truly global network while being based in Zurich — one of the world's leading financial centres. This is an environment where your ideas are heard, your expertise is valued, and your career can grow.

You are an intellectually curious and commercially minded professional who brings strong analytical skills, sound risk judgement and a genuine passion for building relationships. Critically, you are someone who takes full ownership of your underwriting decisions — you are confident in your assessments, comfortable defending your positions, and understand that accountability is at the core of great underwriting. You are at ease navigating complexity, working across cultures and communicating with confidence — whether you are presenting an underwriting recommendation internally or negotiating terms with a client.

You collaborate openly with colleagues and are motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a high-performing, international team.

• Academic background in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Law or a related discipline
• Several years of professional experience in Credit & Surety (re)…