Senior Underwriter Construction (80-100%)

From breaking ground to laying foundations to opening day, large construction projects face a wide variety of risks at every stage. As a Construction Underwriter, you are at the forefront of the significant infrastructure investment trend we observe across the globe. We’re a leading insurance provider in this segment and bring our experience and insight, deep technical expertise and risk transfer solutions to serve our clients and partners.

Great underwriting starts with great people. You will find that our teams are collaborative, down-to-earth and open to the new.

DISCOVER your opportunity

What will your essential responsibilities include?

· Developing and structuring tailor-made solutions by considering the Construction Underwriting strategy and Underwriting policy to win new business and retain existing customers in the area of building construction works, green and renewable projects, oil/gas/chemical installations, power generation through to open-cut mining

· Proactively foster positive relationship with clients to get mutual understanding of their needs

· Advise, assist and service clients on insurance and risk management matters to ensure clients satisfaction and respond to client and AXA XL queries in a timely manner

· Assessing the risk technically, evaluating appropriate risk premium by considering the risk costs inherent to the Construction Sector, reinsurance cessions as well as the underwriting and general administration costs to ensure profitability

· Initiate opportunities for cross-selling

· Ensure proper hand-over for timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to AXA XL's quality standards (including policy-, invoice- and endorsement issuance)

· The Underwriter Construction may have a responsibility for the development of skills, knowledge and competencies of less experienced colleagues

· They will develop best practice and the sharing of underwriting knowledge within the team

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

· Excellent team player

· Engineer ETH/FH with strong analytical and problem solving skills

· Insurance-related experience as a Construction/Engineering Underwriter with thorough technical knowledge of underwriting, rating methodologies, forms and business processes is a plus

· Basic understanding of global and domestic construction underwriting. Large account experience is a plus

· Excellent communication skills in German and English, further language skills are a plus

· Excellent marketing, presentation and negotiation skills

· Ability to develop and maintain relationships with customers, producers and trading partners

· Excellent decision-making skills

· Very good knowledge of the Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

· Willingness to work flexible and to travel

· Excellent analytical and conceptual skills, efficient and able to work independently by structuring the path forward

· Motivated and solution-oriented personality that thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic and high energy environment

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a strong and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

Corporate Responsibility

At AXA XL our approach to corporate responsibility (CR) is the same as our approach to business; constantly seeking to provide innovative solutions to the world’s most complex problems. From offering our expertise, products and services to help build more resilient communities, to advancing understanding and response to climate change, our strategy – Our Impact. Our Future. – aligns key issues that are pertinent to our business – climate, water and financial resilience - and contributes to AXA Group’s purpose to “Act for human progress by protecting what matters.”.

· Climate: We’re reducing our carbon footprint, protecting ecosystems and exploring how our business can help build a better world.

· Water: We’re developing water resilience where it is — and will be — needed most.

· Financial resilience: We’re helping create opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed, so they can be better prepared for unexpected changes.

· Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as our “Hearts in Action” programs.

For more information please see the Corporate Responsibility section on our website.

Inclusion & Diversity

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, while creating an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

· Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe

· Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements

· Enhanced family friendly leave benefits

· Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index

· Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.