Large Case Underwriter (Re/Insurance)

Do you thrive on complex risk decisions, meaningful client partnerships, and never stop learning? If so, this role was built for you!

About the Role

Step into a pivotal role at the heart of Swiss Re's U.S. Life and Health reinsurance business. As a Senior Life & Health Underwriter, you will bring your expertise to bear on some of the most sophisticated and nuanced cases in the industry — from large case and high net worth risks to foreign national business and multi-impairment evaluations. You'll be a trusted partner to clients and a key contributor to the team's culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Every day brings new challenges, new learning, and real impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate complex risks across medical, non-medical, financial, highly substandard, and multi-impairment cases, applying sound underwriting judgment and evidence-based risk selection
• Underwrite large case and high net worth business, including foreign national cases, with precision and a strong command of mortality assessment principles
• Deliver high-quality underwriting decisions that align with Swiss Re's risk appetite, pricing objectives, and corporate strategy
• Build and nurture client relationships, serving as a knowledgeable, responsive, and trusted reinsurance partner
• Stay current on medical advancements, global events, underwriting trends, industry developments, and the evolving regulatory environment to inform risk decisions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with pricing, product, legal, and other internal teams to drive well-rounded outcomes on complex cases and broader initiatives
• Participate in and lead internal and external audit programs, contributing to governance, quality assurance, and continuous improvement efforts
• Represent Swiss Re professionally at industry conferences, client meetings, and Swiss Re offices, acting as an ambassador for the brand and the team
• Contribute to team knowledge-sharing initiatives, mentoring colleagues and supporting a culture of learning and development across the Americas
• Support product and governance considerations, ensuring underwriting practices remain compliant, consistent, and aligned with evolving market standards

About the Team

The U.S. Life and Health Underwriting team is an experienced, dedicated, and geographically diverse group with colleagues based across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. We are proud of the strong facultative services we deliver and the culture we've built — one grounded in collaboration, consistency, knowledge sharing, and genuine partnership. Whether you're working on a complex case or contributing to a broader initiative, you'll find a team that's invested in each other's success and committed to excellence across the Americas.

About You

The Individual Life Facultative Underwriting team is seeking a VP, Large Case Underwriter to help deliver exceptional underwriting expertise and client service. This hands-on role is ideal for an accomplished life underwriter with extensive experience handling large and high-net-worth cases, complex underwriting scenarios, and foreign national business, while contributing to underwriting excellence.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Large Case Underwriting experience with a minimum of $10 million dollar approval authority
• Significant experience with High Net Worth, Complex cases and foreign national business
• Vast knowledge of industry developments, regulatory changes and medical advances that may impact underwriting decisions
• Strong, established relationships across the life underwriting community
• Partner with Medical staff and underwriting colleagues as appropriate, and ensuring sound and consistent application of underwriting philosophy and guidelines

Our company operates under a hybrid work model, with the expectation that employees will work from the office three days per week every week .  This role can be placed in any of the above listed Swiss Re office locations on the East Coast and Central region.

Please note that this role is  not eligible for visa sponsorship/visa transfers/visa extension.

For Armonk, NY,  New York, NY, and Washington DC, the estimated base salary range for this position is $136,000 to $204,000, and for Chicago, IL, Plano, TX,  Fort Wayne, IN, Kansas City, MO, Schaumburg, IL, Alpharetta, GA, and Windsor, CT, the range $128,000 to $192,000.  

The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.