Lead Actuary (P&C)

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to join our team as the Lead Actuary Property Americas. You will be reporting into the Head of Property & Specialty (P&S) Actuarial Portfolio Management.

About the Role

• Strategy development: Collaborate with underwriting leadership and product teams of Property Americas portfolios to support strategy development and execution of underwriting strategies. Partner with the portfolio leader to monitor and evaluate existing and new opportunities efficiently to support both growth and remediation activity.
• Portfolio management discipline: Drive portfolio management discipline across Property Americas, ensuring that portfolios have a long-term strategy, detailed business plan, and a monitoring framework that responds to the execution of actions, pricing data, market trends, and competitor behavior.
• Pricing model development: Ensure that pricing parameters corresponding to Property Americas are calibrated in line with the Global approach and accurately reflect the latest experience, portfolio mix, and trends. Work with technology to implement these tools to support underwriting decision-making.
• Analytical driven decision making: Develop a view on portfolio profitability reflecting the latest market dynamics, rate, and loss experience. You will develop initiatives to understand the drivers of profitability using actuarial segmentation analyses.
• Team management and APM Property leadership: Manage a diverse team of actuaries based in North America, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance feedback. Actively contribute to the leadership, stakeholder management, and future strategy of Property portfolios.

About the Team

You will be joining a diverse and global team of Property actuaries responsible for pricing models, parameters, and tools corresponding to General Property, Energy, and Alternative Risk Transfer products. The successful candidate will lead actuaries based in North America and will also be responsible for portfolio management strategies for Property Americas underwriting portfolios.

About You

You are likely to be an Actuary with deep Commercial Insurance experience, ideally in Property or conceptually similar lines such as Engineering. You bring a combination of industry knowledge, business insight, and technical skills.

You can lead initiatives to turn our vision into reality, advocating for driving change. You are comfortable with data and analytical management techniques and possess strong actuarial technical capability. You can create solutions yourself and lead and coach others to do so.

You communicate clearly and simply, even when dealing with complicated problems and ideas, both orally and in writing. When interacting with colleagues of every level of seniority and experience, you are empathetic and sensitive, adjusting your communication style to meet the needs of others.

You will have an open-minded, intellectually curious approach to everything you do and are likely someone who is continually learning from a variety of sources.

Business fluency in English is needed. The role is based in the US and will require some travel, but it is not expected to exceed 10%.

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.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally.

Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire, and promote without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.

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