Head of International Property Facultative
endurance · London, United Kingdom · On-site
Posted Sep 25, 2026
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Job Description
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SompoRe has a unique opportunity for a Head of International Property Facultative to lead and grow our International Property Facultative portfolio from our London office.
SompoRe operates in key markets worldwide, bringing specialized capabilities across a broad range of reinsurance products, supported by strong analytics, disciplined underwriting, risk management, and claims expertise. With global experience and local market knowledge, SompoRe remains a stable and trusted trading partner across market cycles.
Our business, your impact, our opportunity
As Head of International Property Facultative , you will be responsible for leading the development, strategic direction, underwriting performance, and client management of SompoRe’s International Property Facultative business. Based in London, you will drive profitable growth across target international markets by building and maintaining strong broker and client relationships, developing a robust pipeline of facultative opportunities, and ensuring underwriting discipline across the portfolio.
You will play a key leadership role in shaping underwriting appetite, capacity deployment, portfolio strategy, retrocessional planning, renewal execution, and business planning. Working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional partners, you will ensure the International Property Facultative portfolio delivers sustainable profitability, strong market presence, and long-term client value.
This role is ideal for a senior property facultative reinsurance professional with deep technical underwriting expertise, strong market relationships, international experience, and a proven ability to lead teams and deliver results.
What you’ll be doing
Strategic Leadership and Portfolio Management
Lead the International Property Facultative business, setting strategic direction for growth, profitability, underwriting appetite, capacity deployment, and portfolio management.
Develop and execute business plans that support profitable expansion across key international markets.
Drive underwriting performance across individual risk and automatic business, ensuring alignment with SompoRe’s risk appetite, guidelines, authority levels, and portfolio objectives.
Monitor portfolio performance, aggregation, exposure, pricing adequacy, catastrophe risk, and profitability trends.
Support and inform retrocessional planning, renewal strategy, and annual portfolio planning.
Identify market opportunities, emerging risks, and strategic areas for growth or remediation.
Underwriting and Risk Analysis
Underwrite and oversee complex International Property Facultative accounts, ensuring disciplined risk selection, pricing, terms, and conditions.
Perform and oversee risk analysis, including exposure evaluation, aggregation review, scenario testing, catastrophe modelling outputs, and profitability assessment.
Ensure…