Specialities · Underwriting and Claims
Underwriting and claims recruitment for insurers and reinsurers
From underwriters across life, health, general and specialty lines to claims managers, adjusters and claims operations leaders, we help insurers and reinsurers hire the people who price the risk and keep the promise. Two halves of the same insurance story, recruited by a team that understands both.
What underwriting and claims roles does EliteRecruitments recruit for?
EliteRecruitments recruits across underwriting and claims for insurers and reinsurers: underwriters and senior underwriters across life, health, general and specialty lines, underwriting managers and leaders, and on the claims side, claims managers, adjusters, claims operations specialists and claims analytics roles. It serves insurers, reinsurers and the capability centres building these functions, across India and international markets.
Since 2014
insurance operations depth
80%
screening ratio, candidates we submit get interviewed
85%
joining ratio, offers that become joiners
One desk
underwriting and claims, recruited together
Our insurance operations depth
The two ends of the insurance promise
The underwriter decides which risks to take and at what price; the claims professional makes good on the promise when something goes wrong. Both are central to how an insurer performs, and both are getting harder to hire for, as products grow more complex and the talent pool stays tight. We recruit across the whole of it, because the two belong together.
It is a genuine insurance operations desk for us, drawing on the same insurance depth that runs through our actuarial and analytics work. We understand the products, the lines of business, and the way underwriting and claims actually operate, which is what an insurer wants from a recruiter in this space, rather than a generalist who treats these as ordinary roles.
The underwriting and claims roles we recruit
From the specialists to the leaders
We recruit across both underwriting and claims, from the people who do the work to the leaders who run the functions.
Underwriting, across lines and levels
Underwriters and senior underwriters across life, health, general and specialty and reinsurance lines, from underwriting assistant to class underwriter and underwriting manager. The people who assess and price risk, increasingly alongside data models and algorithmic recommendations.
Underwriting for emerging products
Underwriting talent for parametric, embedded, microinsurance, cyber, usage based and climate linked products. Each brings its own underwriting challenge and needs specialists who can build and price for emerging risks, one of the scarcest profiles in the market.
Claims management and operations
Claims managers, operations specialists and claims leaders who run the claims function, manage process and service, and balance customer outcomes with cost and control. The roles that decide how well an insurer keeps its promise.
Adjusting and claims handling
Claims adjusters, examiners and claims handling specialists across lines of business, the people who assess and settle claims fairly and efficiently, where domain knowledge and judgement matter directly to the customer and the loss ratio.
Claims analytics
The roles where claims meets data: claims analytics and the professionals who use data to detect patterns, manage fraud and improve outcomes. A natural bridge to our analytics practice, which leads the deeper data work.
Underwriting and claims leadership
Heads of underwriting and heads of claims, the senior leaders who own these functions and their performance. Confidential, senior searches connecting to our leadership hiring work.
A tight pool, a changing job
A talent squeeze as the work changes
Insurers are launching new kinds of cover, from parametric and embedded products to cyber and climate linked risk, and each needs underwriters who can price the unfamiliar. Technology has reshaped both functions, with automated underwriting, predictive analytics and AI driven decision tools now standard, which does not replace underwriters and claims professionals but raises the bar for the judgement they bring on top of the tools. Regulation has made both functions central to compliance, not just operations. Capability centres in India are also taking on more underwriting and claims work, adding to demand.
Who we serve, and how we assess
The difference is judgement
We hire for life, health, general and specialty insurers, reinsurers needing specialty underwriting and claims talent, and the capability centres taking on this work in India. The difference between a capable candidate and the right one is judgement, the ability to price an unfamiliar risk well, or to handle a complex claim fairly and efficiently. We assess that judgement and the domain knowledge behind it, alongside fit, before any profile reaches you. That discipline is why our placements last: we screen at an 80 per cent rate and our candidates join at an 85 per cent rate, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees.
Founder led
Shagun Gupta
Founder, stays close to the specialist work
EliteRecruitments is led by its founder, Shagun Gupta, who built the firm out of actuarial and stays close to the specialist work across the practice. Underwriting and claims sit naturally alongside our insurance and actuarial depth, so contact routes to Shagun and Priya Sharma. So when you talk to us about a role here, you reach people who understand the work and the market for it, not a generalist passing on a brief.
Proof
Representative underwriting and claims searches
Shown as role, sector and location, without names, counts or salaries:
Specialty Underwriter
Claims Manager
Underwriting Manager
Head of Claims
Illustrative of the role types we recruit. Specific anonymised placements to be confirmed before publishing.
Related specialities
Two halves of one insurance story
Underwriting and claims draw on our actuarial depth, where pricing and reserving meet underwriting, on our analytics practice, where claims analytics and pricing data sit, and on our catastrophe modelling work, where cat underwriting lives. Clients building insurance functions often hire across these areas.
How to work with us
A model that fits, with a 90 day guarantee
We recruit underwriting and claims talent on the basis that suits the role: retained search for senior and business critical hires, contingency for active roles, and capability build recruitment when you are standing up underwriting or claims functions in a capability centre. Whichever way we work, our placements come with a 90 day guarantee, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees, because our process is built so the guarantee rarely needs to be used. Explore Capability Build Recruitment →
Common questions
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Whether you are building an underwriting or claims team, hiring for a new product line, or weighing your own next move, we would like to help.
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