Vp, senior manager, risk consulting, property & casualty

Are you an insurance consultant with a real passion for understanding and analysing client's needs, challenges, and delivering results by turning complex business challenges into clear, practical solutions? Are you a Property & Casualty (P&C) strategy/management consultant who leads project teams, manages consultants, and supports sales and client management? Do you have experience in product development, pricing, underwriting, go-to market efforts, in-force management, claims? 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 to our insurance clients, addressing strategic and operational challenges across the insurance value chain. 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 key leadership position within the Americas consulting team with ownership of client delivery, project and people management (direct and indirect), and the continued development and growth of our consulting value proposition.

This is a highly client-facing role where the ability to communicate clearly, build credibility, and make complex topics understandable is critical to success. Our clients include some of the largest global insurance carriers as well as regional insurers, MGAs, and public sector organizations in the Americas. Being client-centric and commercially minded, you drive forward the commercial success of Risk Consulting & Analytics within Swiss Re's Reinsurance Solutions division.

Your key responsibilities will involve:

• Lead strategy and management consulting engagements for P&C insurance clients
• Building and lead multi-disciplined, cross-functional project teams including consultants, insurance subject-matter experts, data scientists and analytics professionals to drive effective delivery
• Overseeing discovery, scoping, project management, analysis, and synthesizing results, as well as communication of results and recommendations to clients
• Acting as domain expert and primary contact for Property and Casualty consulting,
• Define and evolve the overall P&C consulting proposition, developing new value propositions aligned with client needs and market opportunities
• Partner closely with Sales on client research and discovery, opportunity development, origination and the sale of new consulting engagements
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Swiss Re to develop new capabilities, analytical approaches and data assets, ensuring they can be effectively positioned and communicated to clients.

About Swiss Re Solutions Risk Consulting & Analytics (RCA)

'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 deliver trusted, impactful, and commercially valued insights at the forefront of innovation and grounded on Swiss Re’s core values. We make sophisticated analysis accessible for our clients, connecting technical expertise with business context and leading to new, more, or better business profit generation for Swiss Re that would not happen through core or transaction business.

About you:

A seasoned strategy consultant, you have a strong commercial mindset, structured problem-solving skills and the ability to connect client needs with practical solutions. Your exceptional communication and presentation skills enable you to make complex topics clear, relevant and understandable for both technical and non-technical audiences.

You are intellectually curious and analytical, with a desire to operate in a dynamic, high-impact, client-facing environment and can build credibility with senior executives, technical specialists and cross-functional teams alike.

Essentials include:

• 10-15 years consulting background and experience, with a strong strategy/management consulting background and demonstrated experience leading client engagements
• Experience in directly leading complex consulting engagements, directly manage consultants and lead cross-functional or multi-disciplinary project teams
• Excellent knowledge of the primary insurance market for Property and Casualty lines of business; relevant backgrounds may include primary insurers, MGAs, brokers, insurance-focused consulting firms, analytics companies, or major strategy consulting / professional services / accounting firms
• Ability to synthesize complex information, data and analysis into compelling, impactful and practical business insights, providing executive-level narratives and recommendations clients can readily understand and act upon
• Confidence and experience interacting with senior management and diverse internal and external client stakeholders
• Flexibility to travel occasionally

Nice to have:

• Demonstrated experience in consultative sales or supporting consultative selling and business development
• Hands-on experience within primary P&C insurance, including underwriting, product, pricing/actuarial, claims, distribution or related functions
• Expertise in statistical tools, programming languages, and visualization tools (e.g. Python, R, SQL, MS PowerBI)
• Proficiency in Spanish/Portuguese a plus

We are looking forward to your application!

Our company uses a hybrid work model requiring at least three days in the office each week, with the option to work onsite full-time if preferred. This position is not eligible for full-time telework and is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

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 15,000 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. If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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