Underwriting / Product Management

Head (all gender) of Centre of Excellence for Liability Insurance

Workload: 50% - 100% Place of work: Basel / Zürich / St.Gallen Level of experience: With work experience FlexOffice: on-site

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Set new standards and shaping the future together. With us, you don't just tick tasks off a list. You work alongside people who take responsibility, set high standards and have the courage to try new approaches. We believe trust and performance go hand in hand. Your ideas, your initiative and your contributions are what really matter to us. You will have the opportunity to make a difference for our customers, your team and your own personal development.
Please note that a full and detailed job description is available upon request.

What you'll be doing

Shape and further develop Group-wide Liability underwriting standards, policy wordings, clauses, and best-practice approaches across European units.
Establish a consistent underwriting framework with clear governance, reporting, and decision-making processes.
Act as a key expert for complex Liability risks, providing technical guidance and supporting underwriting decisions beyond local authority levels.
Drive profitable growth by contributing to local business cases, market strategies, portfolio analytics, pricing methodologies, and performance monitoring.
Strengthen collaboration across the Group by connecting local units, Claims, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, and other specialist teams.
Recruit, onboard, and lead one supporting FTE within the Liability CoE following the successful establishment of the function.
Build Liability expertise through internal knowledge sharing and tailored training initiatives.
Represent Helvetia in relevant national and international Liability insurance forums, associations, conferences, and industry working groups.

What you'll bring to the role

Extensive Liability underwriting expertise across the full insurance value chain, including product development, pricing, underwriting, claims, portfolio management, and reinsurance fundamentals.
Strong technical knowledge of Corporate Liability Insurance, ideally covering General Liability, Product Liability, Professional Indemnity, Financial Lines, and/or Specialty Liability lines.
Proven experience in Upper Mid-Market and Corporate business, preferably in an international or cross-border environment.
A strategic mindset with the ability to develop and implement initiatives, drive change, and contribute to profitable business growth.
Strong analytical and portfolio management skills, combined with sound commercial judgment and a data-driven approach.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, collaborate, and build trust across countries, cultures, and business units.
A genuine passion for Liability Insurance, technical excellence, and international collaboration; fluent English is required, while German and other European languages are an advantage.

Your contact

Alice-Alexandra KallRecruiting Partner

What we offer

FlexOffice

Flexible work in the office, from home or on the go

Insurance & pension solutions

Discounts on insurance and pension solutions

Holiday purchase

Buy yourself extra vacation days

Training and development

Attractive training and development opportunities for your personal development

Retirement plan

Above-average retirement provision benefits

Do you have any questions?

For this position we cannot consider applications through recruitment agencies.

Your contact person

Alice-Alexandra Kall

Recruiting Partner

Your manager

Sounds like your kind of environment?

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Collaboration that makes a difference

We believe in genuine collaboration, mutual trust and people who are willing to take responsibility. Different perspectives help us to develop better solutions, both for our customers and for us as a team.

In the Specialty Markets segment we don't just have our feet on the ground.

NASA T-shirt instead of shirt and tie – in his capacity as Head of Space at Helvetia, Jan Schmidt has been our Head of Space since April 2020 and is responsible for space insurance. As this is an entirely new service for Helvetia, we were very interested to find out more about what Jan Schmidt does and how he got into this exceptional line of work.

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