What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Risk Manager, Property position at Swiss Re?
About the Role
You will gain 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, but also supporting decision making on large and complex transactions.
You will engage with senior business and management stakeholders. Key responsibilities include actively driving and/or contributing to the execution of our mandate:
- Assessing risk-taking / underwriting activities within P&C Re, from individual large deals up to entire portfolios, from a qualitative and quantitative perspective.
- Providing 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.
- Contributing to and leading insurance risk reviews for specific markets, underwriting teams or P&C relevant global topics.
- Supporting the Casualty CUO teams in further developing their operational rigor as an embedded operational risk manager.
- Identifying new risks and accumulations based on your background and the insights you gain through your day-to-day interactions.
- Supporting, as needed, the review of large and complex P&C Re transactions, engaging closely with key stakeholders to enable well-informed referral decisions.
- Contributing to internal and external risk communications as well as driving risk management activities, strategic initiatives, and projects globally.
About You
You bring excellent relationship building skills to the role and are at ease with different styles, preferences, and cultures. A team player, your drive and energy enable you to motivate yourself and those around you.
Effectively organizing yourself, people around you, and tasks, you are comfortable with shifting priorities and deadlines, and instinctively keep calm under pressure.
We are looking for an intrinsically motivated candidate with the following strengths:
- 7 years of significant underwriting expertise and experience with a minimum of 5 years in Casualty (re)insurance.
- Comfortable interacting with, and expressing opposing viewpoints to, senior leadership and executives, doing so with confidence, respect, and professionalism.
- Analytical, able to break down complexity in a clear, simple, and logical way.
- Picking up problems fast, assessing the key elements, and developing innovative and practical solutions.
- Distinguishing between material versus less critical risks and prioritizing outcome over effort.
- Adept at delivering tough messages in a constructive way.
- Fair, open, and transparent in conversations with business partners.
About the Team
We are a group of highly motivated and dynamic individuals using our different backgrounds and skills to offer our business partners a variety of capabilities.
Our wider P&C Re Risk Management (RM) team covers Market Units and Legal Entities across the globe as well as P&C Reserving, Regulatory, and Sustainability RM.
With your P&C reinsurance expertise (Casualty is a must), outstanding communication skills, leadership, and adaptability, you will have a real impact on Swiss Re.
