Zurich, Zurich, CH
About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions offers a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?
About the role
At Swiss Re we are building a Risk Data & Service Platform (RDSP) with an aim to deliver outstanding risk insights and services to our customers based on risk data and advanced analytics. In this context we are looking for a proposition lead (product owner) to join a cross functional team driving the development of our risk data management solution for Corporate Risk Managers.
As the Head Risk Data Management, you will:
Create a risk data management solution that solves a real client pain point. Working with both internal and external customers, you will need to have strong analytical and conceptual thinking, with the ability to recognize competing requirements and constraints, in order to balance and negotiate trade-offs:
• Act as ‘proposition (product) owners’ for these services – articulate the product vision, user story, define the MVP, and prioritise development activity for continuous improvement
• Ensure ‘voice of the customer/client’ is heard and reflected in the prioritisation of the work and focus of the Feature Teams.
• Partner with delivery squads to build, enhance or source services, striving for synergies in developing and deploying our digital capabilities
• Direct, advise and prioritize the backlog of work to maximize value within constraints of resource, strategy and compliance
• Identify market segmentation and bring clarity on the value proposition
• Co-create, prioritize and communicate product roadmaps (working closely with dedicated engineering team)
• To balance & manage technical debt in line with customer value work, aligning with the engineering lead on delivering to the architecture blueprint
• To define clear acceptance criteria for the work and agreement of what constitutes ‘Done’
Collaboration will be crucial. You will work with multiple groups with deep expertise to shape our proposition, including our key account managers, engineers, market bodies, risk managers, brokers, other service providers, and so on. More meaningfully, the team's success is your success and vice versa – you can only be successful by becoming a deeply integrated part of the wider team.
As the proposition (product) owner, you will trade-off the different components of a proposition, prioritising development and investment to achieve the best results. It will be your responsibility to supervise propositions over time and lead the team to take whatever action is needed.
Reporting to the Head Products & Propositions of Risk Services for Corporates, this position is identified as a key role in the programme with responsibility and exposure to a wide range of senior stakeholders.
We offer a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?
About You
You are someone who can conceive of pragmatic ways to take a bold, imaginative vision to reality. You can motivate and recruit others to our shared vision, and guide groups in translating our strategy to a practical implementation. Your natural resilience means you encounter new problems with a confidence you can overcome them; and use your ideas, and the ideas of the teams you assemble, to do so!
You take on problems strategically in a structured way, integrating your own original and creative ideas and those of others. You can do this at a high-level, and engage in significant detail, to make sure ideas are realistic and pragmatic. You have experience working within an agile environment and delivering hypothesis focused, iterative problem-solving processes.
You have a proven track record in insurance and risk management or related areas. This includes a deep understanding on how corporates collect, manage and use corporate risk data.
Similarly, you have experience in working with cloud-based solutions and delivering digital or data based business models, products and services (e.g. Mobile Apps, SaaS, PaaS). Experience in the field of data integration is preferred.
You can engage in technical issues with real content and understanding, including data platforms, platform design and architecture.
You communicate clearly and simply – even when taking care of complicated problems and ideas – and you do so both orally and in writing. When interacting with colleagues of every level of seniority and experience, you are empathetic and perceptive, able to adjust your communication style for all audiences!
You will have a forward-thinking, intellectually curious approach to everything you do; and you are likely someone who is continually learning from a variety of sources.
Business proficiency in English is needed. The role will require some travel, not expected to exceed 30%.
Swiss Re is 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 at Swiss Re. 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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