Job Detail

Location: 

Zurich, ZH, CH

 

Head Property & Specialty EMEA 

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions provides risk transfer solutions to large and mid-sized corporations around the world. Its innovative, highly customised products and standard insurance covers help to make businesses more resilient, while its industry-leading claims service provides additional peace of mind. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions serves clients from over 50 offices worldwide and is backed by the financial strength of the Swiss Re Group.

 

About the Role

In this role, you are accountable for delivering product management and underwriting leadership for the Region for Property & Specialty Lines. As the overall responsible Property & Specialty Portfolio leader for the Region, which includes P&L responsibility for General Property, Onshore Energy, Mining, Utilities and Engineering & Construction, you will work in close collaboration with the global heads of these lines of business, as well as various regional CorSo partners including the EMEA Country Managers.

 

You will lead a regional team of highly motivated Property & Specialty professionals and promote Corporate Solutions' brand in the marketplace, be it at industry conferences, with Brokers and Clients, or with the media', if appropriate.

 

Leadership & Management

• Lead a team of Regional Property and Specialty specialists and assumes 'dotted line' responsibility for the Country Underwriting Leaders


• Contribute to recruiting and onboarding of new underwriters and facilitate regional UW training


• Actively develop UW talent base through recruitment, training, mentoring and skill development

 

Business Development & Growth Strategy

• Craft region-specific Line of Business strategy, monitor strategy execution and perform periodical reviews


• Lead, support and execute on strategic initiatives in the region, e.g. International Program Business, Lean Underwriting, etc.


• Perform annual business planning in cooperation with the country teams

 

Portfolio Steering

• Assume overall accountability for the Regional Property & Specialty portfolio profitability (EVM, US GAAP)


• Continuously improve the quality of portfolio monitoring & steering, analysis, guidance, tactical execution, etc., including the development / updating of Level II Factbooks


• Monitor costing accuracy and propose changes where necessary to the Products Global Line of Business Heads


• Establish, maintain and improve regional/local underwriting standards

 

Product Development & Innovation

• Develop new products, respectively adjusts existing products to the needs of the Region and enable roll-out


• Enable cross-regional UW knowledge transfer, including training and skill set development for the UWs

 

External representation

• Represent subject Line of Business towards external partners, i.e. clients, brokers, industry associations/conferences/panels, regulators, etc.


• Lead and/or participate in key discussions with corresponding production sources in the market

 

Referral Underwriting and other reviews

• Perform referral underwriting, support Products Global Line of Business Heads in referral underwriting that require higher underwriting authority


• Perform underwriting checks of regional UW teams


• Propose to Products Global Line of Business Heads appropriate levels of underwriting authorities for underwriters in the Region

 

Costing & Pricing Infrastructure

• Lead or contribute to the development (incl. improvement) of regional / local costing models for existing and new products


• Participate on the design and implementation of UW relevant IT infrastructure

 

Market Research & Analytics

• Develop and distribute periodic market insight reports


• Provide Region access to market data and analytics; sources new data and assures regional market data is globally managed, maintained and improved

 

About the Team

You will report to the Regional CEO EMEA and are a member of the EMEA Executive Team and Management Team. You will have dotted line reporting to the Products Global Line of Business Head Property & Specialty.

 

As a leader, you support talent development and are comfortable with enabling team members to take the next step in their career. You are positive towards navigating ambiguity and managing change.

 

About You

Educational background

• University degree or equivalent

 

Your experience

• Min. 15 years of experience in Property or Specialty underwriting


• Strong experience in leading Property and Specialty portfolio in the insurance industry


• Recognized as a Property and/or Specialty leader in the market

 

Leadership skills

• Strong leadership and management skills, incl. project management


• Robust thought leadership and strategic thinking skills


• Excellent communication skills (oral and written)


• Solution and result oriented


• Ability to manage a team in a multi-cultural environment


• Strong analytical thinking


• Strong networking skills, excellent teammate including ability to foster cooperation with teams in different locations and business units


• Excellent talent development skills – incl. coaching and mentoring


• Strong decision-making abilities


• Entrepreneurial mindset and focus on execution


• Client centric


• Pragmatic, “can do” mentality

 

Language skills

• Languages: fluent in English and ideally another European language (German, French, Italian)

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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