MSIG Europe
Underwriter- Builders Risk
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Specialty Marine Underwriter – Builders Risk Rotterdam
Underwriter Builders Risk
About MSIG Specialty Marine
MSIG Specialty Marine is a specialist marine MGA (coverholder) delivering tailored insurance solutions across global markets. We combine carrier options to provide A-rated capital flexibility while backed by one of Europe’s largest teams of marine underwriters and claims specialists.
With ~250 professionals and wide-ranging product suites, we are recognised for our technical expertise, client focus, and solution-driven approach. Our mission: to be a world-class marine insurance partner—collaborating closely with clients to deliver innovative risk solutions and first-class service from underwriting to claims.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking an Underwriter (Builders Risk) to join our Rotterdam team in a key, strategically influential role. This position fosters ownership and progression as you grow your expertise across the underwriting lifecycle, including risk assessment, broker relationships, portfolio management, and growth strategy.
Key Responsibilities (Scaling with Experience)
- Contribute to underwriting complex Builders Risk and Energy-related risks
- Assume increasing accountability for acCOUNT portfolios and broker relationships
- Influence portfolio development and profitable growth
This role offers real ownership: transition from reviewing risks to shaping how MSIG Specialty Marine writes them—moving beyond transactional tasks to judgement-driven decision-making.
The Role in Practice
Your work will span technical underwriting, commercial acumen, and relationship management, including:
- Analysing complex shipbuilding projects (e.g. dredging vessels, mega yachts, offshore/defence assets);
- Advising on new builds, repairs, conversions, and energy-transition-related contracts.
- Engaging with brokers and clients across, multi-country markets (Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, US/Canada, Eastern Europe), ensuring MSIG aligns with transformation opportunities.
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Core Challenges
- Prioritise multiple deadlines: underwriting, administration, client engagement
- Build confidence in risk decisions despite incomplete information.
- Apply curiosity, ownership, and commercial thinking—focusing on risk mitigation and growth.
What You’ll Deliver
Core Responsibilities
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Underwrite Builders Risk and Energy exposures, aligning with underwriting appetite/guidelines.
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Manage or contribute to portfolio growth (scale dependent on experience).
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Build strong broker-client relationships through professional, proactive engagement.
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Conduct risk assessments using data, market insights, and peers’ expertise.
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Monitor portfolio performance and propose optimisation opportunities.
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Drive underwriting strategy alignment and direct collaboration with claims teams.
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Act as external advisor—advocating MSIG’s expertise in the marketplace.
What We’re Looking For
Experience
- Background in marine insurance, underwriting, or equivalent roles preferred.
- Familiarity with Builders Risk, Hull, Machinery, Energy, or related specialties (not required).
- Hands-on risk analysis with a focus on client-centric solutions.
- Experience collaborating with brokers, insureds, or internal partners.
We welcome candidates from entering specialism (e.g. brokers, surveyors, legal) who demonstrate risk acumen and boundaneous development.
Skills & Mindset
You thrive when:
- Equipping skills but ambitious: transitioning from foundational expertise to leadership.
- Proactive and insightful: pinpointing underwriting opportunities while mitigating risk.
- Comfortable gaining weightেজеılar shocked: recumbent topics from documentation to dynamics.
- Detail party: keyheight statements without oversighering rules or exceptions.
- Dynamically engaged: executing amidst change and supporting a restless line.
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Team & Culture
Expect collaborative, sagacious, andープ openness: -Shared goals and outcomes. -Question clear expectations and standards, honing in you too to succeed. -Embrace transparency: risks are tackled head-on with accountability and support.
Prospect to nurture growth while working rich pace headship.
Benefits
| Benefit | Description | |----------------------------------|------------------------------------------> | Vacation | 30 days/year (full-week 40-hour schedule)| | Financial Bonus | Regular 13th-month bonus. | | Commuting | Optional bike-leasing scheme. | | Healthcare | up to 50% contribution to extra insurance | | Well-being | Complimentary (eekage access**. | | Work Environment | Rotated’s innovative centre. | | Ethical Growth | Reward companies’ dedicated fulfilment implementation of opportunities.
Why Join Us?
MSIG Specialty Marine is part of MS&AD, a top 10 global insurer, operating from the Netherlands.
Built on a legacy rooted in ethos of respect, trust, and care (our Japanese heritage), we enable confidence in relationship-led risk protection.
Inspire your growth—helping individuals like you pave your career track, shape global marine-risk solutions.
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