Team Lead - Underwriting Engineering & Construction

About the Team

We play an active role in the Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Global Engineering community, contributing to knowledge sharing, special projects, and research topics. Our team collaborates with cross-functional groups to strengthen partnerships with Mexican clients, aiming for win-win solutions. We are dedicated to improving processes and achieving operational excellence within Engineering & Construction (E&C) and Renewable Energy.

About the Role

As the Team Lead - Underwriting Engineering & Construction, your main responsibilities will include:

• Growing the profitable Mexican Retail engineering portfolio while providing high-quality underwriting services and solutions to clients.
• Positioning Swiss Re Corporate Solutions as a leader in the Mexican market through strategic marketing activities, client underwriting training, risk surveys, and more.
• Underwriting Construction and Engineering deals, focusing on the Mexican market. This includes technical assessments, wording reviews, and negotiations with clients and brokers for products such as CAR/EAR, CECR, and others.
• Ensuring adherence to requirements imposed by the Mexican Insurance Regulator for E&C and Renewable Energy Business.
• Maintaining underwriting documentation, ensuring good data quality in the underwriting system, and following up on post-bound activities such as premium payments, claim data, and filing.
• Growing the renewable energy book in Mexico, with a focus on operational wind farms, solar PV plants, and BESS.
• Developing talent within the Mexican E&C community by offering coaching support and career advice.

About You

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, Construction Engineering, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of strong underwriting experience with a customer-focused mindset.
• Fluency in both English and Spanish.
• Ability to respond promptly, handling short deadlines and large workloads.
• Excellent organizational skills for maintaining documents, processes, and records.
• Strong analytical abilities to read and understand documents related to E&C projects, such as Gantt Charts, Project Descriptions, and Breakdown of Values.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal interaction abilities.
• Proficiency in identifying project risk exposures and defining the Most Probable Loss (MPL).
• Experience in writing and reviewing survey reports detailing main exposures and providing recommendations for project risk management.
• Capability to define proper coverage for projects through the most suitable policy wording.
• Knowledge of the construction industry and insurance market environment and trends in Latin America, including (re)insurers, brokers, and clients.
• Expertise in risk selection and underwriting practice, including risk management, industry assessment, and rating methodologies.

Join Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and be part of a team committed to driving excellence in the E&C and Renewable Energy sectors.

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions 

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.