Senior Risk Consultant (80-100% working degree)

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Are you an insurance consultant with a real passion for understanding and analysing client's needs, challenges, and delivering effective business solutions? Are you a P&C strategy/management consultant who leads project teams, manages consultants, and supports sales and client management? Do you have experience helping insurance companies address their challenges around pricing, UW, go-to market efforts, portfolio steering and accumulation management? If so, here is where your journey begins!

We are currently expanding our team at Swiss Re Solutions Risk Consulting & Analytics within the Swiss Re Group, and we are searching for a dedicated professional to deliver consulting services across the insurance value chain to our clients. The role's immediate focus is on the London Market, while being embedded in the EMEA regional team. Do not hesitate to apply to join our highly skilled team!

About the role

As a Senior Manager you will be responsible for evolving and delivering on our client consulting offering. This role is a leadership role within the EMEA consulting team with ownership of client delivery and evolving and growing the overall consulting value proposition. Our clients include some of the largest global insurance carriers as well as regional insurers, MGAs, and public sector organizations in EMEA. Being client-centric and commercially minded, you drive forward the commercial success of Risk Consulting & Analytics within Swiss Re's Reinsurance Solutions division.

Your main responsibilities will involve:

1. Consulting proposition development and EMEA-wide topic ownership, evolving our overall risk consulting proposition in line with client needs and market opportunities.
2. Leading delivery of consulting engagements to clients in UK and elsewhere in EMEA, building and managing multi-disciplined project teams to drive effective delivery
3. Overseeing as well as hands-on delivery on discovery, scoping, project management, analysis, and synthesizing results, as well as communication of results and recommendations to clients
4. Working hand-in-hand with Sales team to support client research and discovery, as well as origination and sales of new client engagements,
5. Collaborating with peers in the Americas and APAC regions to export success stories and value propositions from one region to another.

About the team

'Solutions' is a central pillar of the reinsurance strategy, critical both to development of our core activities as well as developing new revenue streams for Swiss Re. The Risk Consulting & Analytics team within the Solutions Division is globally responsible for delivering consulting services to our clients. We unlock the power of data by providing insights and advice to our clients along the entire insurance value chain and partner to realize their strategic ambitions of growth, profitability, and efficiency. Our typical client work centres on profitable growth, product development, pricing, underwriting, risk scoring and selection and claims. Combining Swiss Re's unparalleled industry expertise, wealth of data and groundbreaking data analytics capabilities, we offer trusted, impactful, and commercially valued insights at the forefront of innovation and grounded on Swiss Re's core values. Providing such services to our clients leads to new, more, or better business profit generation for Swiss Re that would not happen through core or transaction business. These earnings will be manifested primarily through a fee income model.

About you

1. About 5 to 10 years of consulting background and experience delivering consulting engagements to client.
2. Excellent knowledge of the primary insurance market in EMEA in general and the London Market specifically, having worked for an insurer, broker, consulting firm or analytics company.
3. Ability to interpret complex analysis and turn it into actionable insights through impactful storytelling, interacting & communicating with senior management and diverse client stakeholders,
4. Demonstrated expertise in statistical tools and programming languages like python, R, relational databases and SQL, Tableau, MS PowerBI.
5. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Proficiency in English.
6. Advanced degree and education with quantitative background
7. Flexibility to travel occasionally

Nice to have skills through which you can differentiate:

1. Experience in primary insurance Property & Casualty underwriting, pricing / actuarial methods.
2. Expertise in nat cat modelling
3. Experience in Life and Health underwriting, pricing / actuarial methods, inforce management, claims
4. Demonstrated experience in consultative sales

We are looking forward to your application!

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About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.