At SCOR Business Solutions, we offer a comprehensive insurance product range to address large corporate and industrial clients’ complex and evolving needs worldwide. We can do this thanks to our dedicated local expert teams, with an underwriting DNA based on technical expertise and in-depth industry knowledge. We are large but small working in a global product-oriented structure meaning that client not geography comes first. We get excited about offering our clients a diversified and innovative range of insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk”, SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society. The Group generated premiums of EUR 19.4 billion in 2023 and serves clients in around 160 countries from its 35 offices worldwide.
Job Summary: No two days are the same, but that is how we become the experts that our clients expect to work with. Producing and managing your portfolios of accounts, through the strong market relationships you have is at the core of your role at SCOR. The guidelines we develop are built to support the underwriting business plan for your line of business, but you have the chance to do much more than that, by actively contributing to portfolio growth and diversification, supporting the overall organization strategy.
There is always a lot to do, but everything is linked to the overall results of SCOR Business Solutions, developing our market share, and enhancing our market image.
When you receive, select and evaluate offers of business from various sources, your role is to produce terms and to negotiate the bespoke wordings of the contracts. But we also want you to support the development of our submission pipeline and promote SCOR by pro-active marketing in line with the strategy and guidelines defined by us.
Business and Market relationships are key to yours and our success. By maintaining and developing these relationships with clients and brokers and attending broker and client hosted events, you get the chance to be part of our growth.
We want you to be curious and innovative. We see research and development as an important part of our work, with a desire to look at new areas of potential profitable growth.
It is also important to emphasis the importance of working as a team at SCOR. Whether it’s across underwriting, or working closely with Claims and Pricing, we are successful because of this collaboration.
Some of the expectations of your role are:
- Be part of the team delivering profitable growth and diversify the portfolio in accordance with strategy and in accordance with the SBS Insurance Guidelines and practices
- Receive, select, and evaluate offers of business from various sources, calculate pricing, & negotiate conditions of the contracts
- Take time to identify, research, develop and report on new areas of profitable growth
- Be comfortable in marketing all SBS capabilities and product solutions to Corporate Risk Managers, Brokers and Ceding Companies with a specific emphasis Property
- Develop marketing materials and intelligence documentation based on research and analysis of both the portfolio results and the market data
- Provide technical expertise, best practices and mentoring to underwriters in the region that assist in sourcing new business opportunities
- Collaborate with peers' other regions to share market intelligence, best practices but most importantly ensuring that our underwriting methodology is consistent throughout the World.
- Assist other business lines in local market interactions to support cross-LOB growth
- Collaborate with the Claims Function in negotiating/resolving the claims arising from your portfolio.
- Ensure data quality and reporting to all our IT systems
- Strong underwriting experience across the market
- High technical acumen of reinsurance and insurance principals.
Cycle Management – Having the ability to manage underwriting decisions and relationships around the market's cyclical nature; You are able to flex your mindset around underwriting strategy, capacity management, portfolio management and long-term partnerships to achieve successful and profitable underwriting decisions
Commercial Business Acumen – You are able to negotiate profitable business with a structure that works for both client and SCOR.
Critical Thinking – You can assess complex risks, analyze market trends, and make data-driven underwriting decisions to improve profitability whilst mitigating exposure.
Negotiation & Persuasion – You can lead negotiations involving complex policies, ensuring client satisfaction and profitability, negotiating terms, resolving conflicts, and advocating for clients
Entrepreneurial Spirit – You can identify new market opportunities, develop innovative products and adapt to emerging risks
Intellectual Curiosity – You have the genuine desire to learn, understand and explore new ideas, concepts and perspectives, and produce credible industry collateral to place SCOR as a Market Thought Leader
Emerging Risk Discovery – You focus on identifying and evaluating new risks, monitoring and assessing non-traditional risks, and developing policies to address these risks
Required experience & competencies:
- A minimum of 5+ years' experience in property underwriting, property insurance loss control, property insurance loss adjustment, or operations in a large industrial company risks is required.
- A strong knowledge of the primary broker network that places these risks.
- Excellent analytical and communication skills and negotiating ability.
- Advanced in use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point
- Bachelor’s degree required - an engineering degree preferred, but not mandatory
CIP or FCIP designations or other insurance studies preferred
SCOR welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Hybrid Work Policy: SCOR is committed to an "in office" culture where people can collaborate, exchange ideas, and establish stronger working relationships while still providing flexibility.
To support employee work-life balance and increase opportunities for employees to excel every day, SCOR operates with a hybrid working arrangement. SCOR employees work 3 days per week in an office with the flexibility to work 2 days per week remotely.
Pay Range for roles performed in Toronto: $160,000-$195,000 CAD base salary per year. Actual salaries may vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, role and performance. The range listed is just one component of SCOR's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long term incentives. In addition, we provide a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement saving plan, paid holidays and paid time off.
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
