Lead Actuary Property Americas

Crossell; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as the Lead Actuary for Property Americas, where you will spearhead strategy development and portfolio management. This role involves collaborating with underwriting leadership to drive initiatives that enhance profitability and mitigate risks. You will manage a diverse team, ensuring they thrive while contributing to innovative solutions in a dynamic environment. The successful candidate will possess deep Commercial Insurance expertise and exceptional leadership skills, ready to influence change and foster a culture of inclusivity. If you are passionate about analytics and leadership, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Environment

Professional Development Opportunities

Health and Wellness Programs

Inclusive Workplace Culture

Travel Opportunities

Qualifications

• Deep experience in Commercial Insurance, ideally in Property.
• Strong analytical skills and actuarial technical capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse team of actuaries in North America.
• Drive portfolio management discipline across Property Americas.

Skills

Commercial Insurance

Data Analysis

Actuarial Segmentation

Portfolio Management

Leadership

Education

Actuarial Science Degree

Professional Actuary Certification

Tools

Pricing Models

Analytical Tools

Job description

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

About the Role

• Strategy development: Collaborate with underwriting leadership and products teams of Property Americas portfolios to support strategy development and support execution of UW strategies. Partner with the portfolio leader to monitor and evaluate existing and new opportunities efficiently to support both growth and remediation activity. Collaborate with Head APM P&S to ensure that execution is in line with other Property portfolios.
• 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 and capability that responds to the execution of actions, pricing data, market trends and competitor behaviour. Collaborate with Head APM P&S to ensure that application of these principles is in line with other Property portfolios.
• Pricing model development: As part of Global Rating framework for Property, ensure that pricing parameters corresponding to Property Americas are calibrated inline with Global approach and are accurately to reflect the latest experience, portfolio mix, and trends and 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 and work with the business stakeholders to take advantage of opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Team management and APM Property leadership: Manage a diverse team of actuaries based in North America, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance feedback. As a member of the APM Property leadership team you shall 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 which is responsible for pricing models, parameters, 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.

You will also be part of leadership team of APM Property & Specialty.

About You

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

You are someone who can lead initiatives to take our vision to reality, being an advocate for driving change. You are comfortable with data and analytical management techniques and have a strong actuarial technical capability; and can both create solutions yourself, and lead, coach others to do so.

You communicate clearly and simply - even when dealing with complicated problems and ideas - and you do so both orally and in writing. When interacting with colleagues of every level of seniority and experience, you are empathetic and sensitive, and you adjust your communication style to meet the needs of others. You build broad networks of colleagues with strong inter-personal relationships.

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

Business fluency in English is needed. The role is based in US and will require some travel, but 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. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

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 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.

Swiss Re is an equal opportunity employer. It is our practice to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.

During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.

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