Senior Reinsurance Risk Manager, Underwriting Property & Casualty

Full-time - Senior

Armonk, NY

10,001+ employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

We are offering a unique opportunity for a Senior Risk Manager to join our dynamic, open minded and global Property & Casualty Reinsurance Risk Management team! This role sees an excellent overview of and frequent exposure to Swiss Re's global Property & Casualty (P&C) Re risk-taking activities, with a strong focus on our Casualty business. Drawing on your material Reinsurance underwriting experience, you will support decision making on large and complex transactions and engage with senior business and management stakeholders to enable well-informed referral decisions.

Responsibilities

• Assess risk-taking / underwriting activities within P&C Re, from individual large deals up to entire portfolios, from a qualitative and a quantitative perspective.
• Provide P&C Re's and Group's EC and BoD with an independent view of relevant risk implications arising out of strategic and financial plans of specific Casualty portfolios.
• Contribute to and lead insurance risk reviews for specific markets, underwriting teams or P&C relevant global topics.
• Support the Casualty CUO teams in further developing their operational rigor as an embedded operational risk manager.
• Identify new risks and accumulations based on your background and the insights you gain through your day-to-day interactions.
• Contribute to internal and external risk communications as well as drive risk management activities, strategic initiatives and projects globally.

Requirements

• 7+ years of significant underwriting expertise and experience with a minimum of 5 years in Casualty (re)insurance.
• Experience and comfort level interacting with, and expressing opposing viewpoints to, senior leadership and executives, doing so with confidence, respect and professionalism.
• Analytical skills to break down complexity in a clear, simple and logical way.
• Ability to pick up problems fast, assess the key elements, and develop innovative and practical solutions.
• Adept at delivering tough messages in a constructive way.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent relationship building skills and comfort with different styles, preferences and cultures.
• Ability to effectively organize yourself, people around you and tasks, comfortable with shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Instinctively keep calm under pressure.

Benefits

• Estimated base salary range of $113,000 to $200,000 based on various factors.
• Total compensation approach considering base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered.
• Encouragement for experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break.