L&H Underwriting Solutions Expert

DescriptionAs a L&H Underwriting Solutions Expert, you will play a pivotal role at the intersection of technical underwriting and digital innovation within the (re)insurance industry. Your primary responsibility is to establish and maintain cutting-edge, evidence-based underwriting guidelines—most notably for the SOLEM Underwriting Manual. You will collaborate closely with local underwriting experts, actuaries, medical experts to ensure that guidelines are technically robust, as inclusive as can be, and aligned with local market practices and regulations.In this role, you will actively monitor industry developments, such as new medical studies, treatments, and regulatory changes, to keep the underwriting philosophy current and relevant. You will also support the development and content validation of e-underwriting solutions, working with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet market needs.A key part of your responsibilities involves clear communication and stakeholder management: you will cascade updates, document changes in relevant systems, and contribute to SCOR's reputation as a technical leader by creating communication materials for significant updates.Additionally, you will drive the roadmap for next-generation underwriting solutions, powered by AI, by providing expert insights, identifying pain points, and participating in user acceptance testing for new releases. This role requires strong technical underwriting experience, a collaborative mindset, excellent communication skills in English, and a willingness to engage with digital tools and innovation.ResponsibilitiesKey duties and responsibilitiesUnderwriting Expertise and Risk managementDevelop the Philosophy sitting behind our various Underwriting Solutions, including most importantly our Underwriting Manual SOLEM, and across all types of risks (mostly medical, but also occupation, sports, financial etc.)Ensure our Underwriting Philosophy is always state of the art from a technical perspective, with a strong evidence base and documentationWorking hand in hand with local underwriting experts, ensure our philosophy is turned into guidelines that are in line with local market practices and regulation, and as easy to use as possible for internal and client underwritersIn line with the SOLEM governance, seek key stakeholders' opinions on some of the most complex and impactful updates. These stakeholders include (but are not restricted to) L&H modelling (actuarial), doctors, legal, E-Underwriting experts, local UW teams, Business Acceptance etc.Drive the reflection on which aspects of our Underwriting philosophy (especially medical impairments) need to be updated, monitoring key news (e.g. medical studies, new treatments, new regulation etc.) that might impact our philosophy together with local markets and CMOsBring support and expertise in establishing our E-Underwriting solutions' content and rules (Velogica), helping to sign them off together with local market teams and other relevant stakeholders.Communication and Stakeholder managementEnsure that any update brought to our Underwriting philosophy is efficiently cascaded and communicated to the right stakeholders (e.g. organizing regular sharing sessions)Document the evolutions of the changes brought to our Underwriting Philosophy in the relevant tools (e.g. Teams, Azure Devops etc.) so as to build a reliable audit trackContribute to SCOR's reputation as a technical, knowledgeable reinsurer through building communication material on some of the most significant Underwriting Philosophy updates (that can then be shared on SCOR's website or social media), together with Communications and Marketing teams.Underwriting Solutions roadmapActively drive our Underwriting Solutions roadmap as a Subject Matter Expert – you work hand in hand with product managers, giving them ideas on concrete pain points to solve, explaining the overall underwriting flow, and making sure that features built are relevantContribute to the future of our Underwriting suite of solutions and participate in forming a vision of where and how AI can power this suite and where and how our solutions can be brought closer together from a knowledge, data, and configuration perspectiveProvide key insights to help the team prioritize the Underwriting solutions roadmapParticipate in user acceptance tests when launching new releases of our solutions QualificationsRequired experience & competenciesStrong life underwriting experience (>10 years), with a track record of expanding responsibility and technical expertise over timeExperience building medical underwriting guidelines together with CMOs and actuariesKnowledge and experience in contributing to innovation in the L&H underwriting landscapeInterest for both technical underwriting and solutionsStrong team player, eager to support, engage and communicate with L&H markets and other relevant stakeholdersHighly organized person, who doesn't mind documenting their work in the various systemsStrong oral and written communication skills in English. French is also an advantageLiteracy in some key IT systems used at SCOR (or willingness to learn): MS Office suite, Azure Devops, Confluence/ Jira among othersRequired Education At least a Bachelor or Master's degree (or equivalent) in an insurance or medical-related field