Full-Time
Underwriter Manager
Casualty/EIL
Updated on 9/3/2026
SCOR
1,001-5,000 employees
Global reinsurer offering P&C and L&H.
No salary listed
Île-de-France, France
Remote
Worldwide travel is required.
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- A Master’s degree in Insurance, Finance, or Risk Management.
- At least 8 years of experience with exposure to all types of casualty risks.
- Established underwriting experience in the casualty class of business.
- Proven underwriting skills, including wording negotiation.
- Market recognition and a sound reputation across the insurance market.
- Established market relationships.
- Fluency in French and English.
- Ability to travel worldwide.
- Proficiency in underwriting tools and the ability to understand and assess their results.
- Ability to evaluate, condense, and summarize key information.
- Ability to work independently and proactively, prioritize under pressure, and maintain a high level of commitment.
- Ability to perform under time pressure during peak renewal periods while adhering to processes and guidelines.
- Decision-making and accountability.
- Manage and develop the existing Casualty/EIL portfolio, including renewals, endorsements, and claims involvement.
- Analyze, select, and underwrite submissions using a technical approach covering pricing, wordings, and terms and conditions.
- Ensure profitability and portfolio quality in line with SBS underwriting guidelines.
- Contribute to overall business results through sound and disciplined underwriting.
- Develop SCOR’s Casualty/EIL market share in collaboration with EMEA commercial teams.
- Originate new business opportunities and maintain a regular flow of submissions.
- Promote SBS capabilities to brokers, corporate clients, and ceding companies across EMEA and the London market.
- Represent SCOR at industry events, seminars, conferences, and client meetings.
- Build and maintain relationships with brokers and key stakeholders across EMEA.
- Conduct regular client meetings, risk visits, and project site visits.
- Ensure high-quality service and long-term partnership development.
- Work closely with underwriting peers across the SBS network to ensure consistency and team alignment.
- Collaborate with technical assistants, claims teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and business intelligence within the team.
- Foster a strong team spirit across EMEA.
- Produce and share portfolio analyses and market intelligence insights.
- Report regularly on accounts, underwriting performance, and commercial activity.
- Ensure accurate, complete, and timely data entry in underwriting systems.
- Maintain reliable data to support portfolio monitoring and decision-making.
- Ensure underwriting practices comply with legal, regulatory, and SBS frameworks.
- Develop and maintain technical expertise in selected industries.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of underwriting practices and standards.
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of three underwriters.
- Set objectives, monitor performance, and conduct regular reviews.
- Coach team members to enhance technical underwriting skills and autonomy.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment.
- Support talent development, succession planning, and recruitment when needed.
- Ideally, experience in team management.
- Broking, industry, or risk management experience.
- Experience writing international business.
- Knowledge of competitors, cedants, reinsurers, and brokers within EMEA or internationally.
SCOR SE is a global reinsurance provider with two main segments: Property & Casualty and Life & Health. It helps insurance companies transfer a portion of their underwriting and financial risk, offering P&C coverage for property, casualty, and specialty lines, and L&H coverage for life, health, and long-term care risks, with asset management to support obligations. The company differentiates itself through global scale, a two-segment focus, and integrated asset management that enables a broad set of risk-management solutions. Its goal is to help clients mitigate underwriting and financial risks across regions, grow in both P&C and L&H, and maintain a diversified, risk-aware position in the global market.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1970
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- H1 2026 net income reached €397 million, with 220% solvency and 19% ROE.
- Q2 2026 P&C combined ratio fell to 79.5% on benign catastrophe losses.
- Alternative Solutions premiums grew 71.7% year-to-date, and 133% at mid-year renewals.
What critics are saying
- SCOR cut non-cat US property and US casualty at July 2026 renewals.
- Gross price change on renewed business was -4.4%, pressuring margins.
- Persistent oversupply into January 2027 forces SCOR to surrender share or miss targets.
What makes SCOR unique
- SCOR’s Forward 2026 targets pair Tier 1 reinsurance, Alternative Solutions, and selective underwriting.
- SCOR Business Solutions deepens client lock-in through Energy, Construction, and capital-relief structures.
- June-July 2026 renewals showed disciplined capital redeployment across specialty and P&C lines.
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