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About the Role
Lead Swiss Re's Life & Health retrocession activities and expand traditional and alternative capital solutions to support the L&H business. This is a high-impact, collaborative role focused on identifying opportunities, challenging existing approaches, and driving innovative solutions from idea to execution within the Alternative Capital Partners Team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the L&H Retro team, setting strategic direction and ensuring high-quality structuring and execution of transactions.
- Build a strong partnership with the L&H Business Unit to understand its portfolio, strategic priorities, and capital needs.
- Identify opportunities for retrocession or risk-transfer solutions to support the business beyond predefined requests.
- Develop and evaluate innovative solutions, including traditional retrocession, alternative capital, and third-party investor transactions.
- Drive transactions from ideation to execution, collaborating across underwriting, structuring, finance, legal, risk, and capital management.
- Engage with external markets and counterparties to understand market appetite and develop new opportunities.
- Strengthen connectivity between L&H and the broader alternative capital partner team.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, commercial thinking, curiosity, and ownership.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Life & Health reinsurance, with a strong grasp of risk transfer mechanisms, portfolio dynamics, and capital implications.
- Proven experience in retrocession or structured transactions, including leading complex deals from structuring through negotiation and execution.
- Strong capital management knowledge, including familiarity with how retrocession and alternative capital solutions interact with solvency and accounting frameworks.
- Track record of senior stakeholder engagement, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across underwriting, finance, legal, and external counterparties.
- Leadership experience, with a demonstrated ability to develop and inspire high-performing teams in a complex, matrixed environment.
- Promote a high standard of governance, documentation, and project management.
Skills
- Life & Health reinsurance
- Risk transfer mechanisms
- Portfolio dynamics
- Capital implications
- Retrocession
- Structured transactions
- Capital management
- Solvency frameworks
- Accounting frameworks
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team leadership
- Governance
- Documentation
- Project management
- Alternative capital structures
- Third-party investor transactions
- ILS (Insurance-Linked Securities) markets
- Alternative capital ecosystem
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Global, cross-functional environment navigation
- Regulatory frameworks
- IFRS-17
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Head
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- 168'000 GBP to 252'000 GBP
Benefits
- Attractive performance-based variable compensation component
- Variety of global and location specific benefits
About the Company
- 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.
- We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.