Life & Health Underwriter with English and any other European language

About the Role

Swiss Re Life & Health has very high-reaching goals, and this is your chance to join a dynamic team supporting those efforts right across the European region. It is also your opportunity to benefit from the extensive skills development program which Swiss Re can offer.

Life & Health Underwriting represents individual assessment of risk for life and living benefit applicants.

Your role as an underwriter based in Bratislava will be to support all the activities of our teams based in the major cities across Europe. Following a period of intensive training, you will learn how to use and apply our world leading underwriting manual. You will have a strong support of our extensive network of experts and you will be able to make recommendations on those individual risks which insurance companies refer to Swiss Re.

As your skills grow, you will also participate in other services which we provide to our clients, including product development, training material preparation, training delivery and, subject to language skills, translation.


As a L&H Underwriter, you will be responsible for running the following:

-Registration of underwriting cases via our administrative system
-Assessment of medical and financial documents (blood tests, cardiovascular reports… and accounting / financial documents) to establish a recommendation with the help of our underwriting tool and Medical Officers
-Preparation and/or onsite support for client facing activities, such as trainings and audits
-Support for translation of our underwriting-related tools

About the Team

We are a new team of underwriters who support several markets across the EMEA region on the business side, including cases assessment and various client needs. We work closely with regional and cross-functional partners.

*We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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