Head L&H Retro — Lead Complex Risk-Transfer Structuring

Swiss Re; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 184.000 - 276.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

Zusammenfassung

Swiss Re seeks a strategic Head of Life & Health Retro to lead retrocession activities and expand capital solutions for the Life & Health business. You’ll proactively identify opportunities, drive innovative solutions, and oversee execution in collaboration with underwriting, finance, and legal teams.

You will influence the L&H portfolio strategy, manage relationships with external markets and counterparties, and build a high-performing team within Swiss Re's Alternative Capital Partners

Qualifikationen

• Deep expertise in Life & Health reinsurance and risk transfer mechanisms.
• Proven experience in retrocession or structured transactions leading deals.
• Strong capital management knowledge and understanding of solvency frameworks.
• Senior stakeholder engagement and cross-functional partnership experience.
• Leadership experience developing high-performing teams.

Aufgaben

• Lead the L&H Retro team, setting its strategic direction and ensuring high-quality structuring and execution of transactions across lines of business.
• Build a strong, proactive partnership with the L&H Business Unit, developing a deep understanding of its portfolio, strategic priorities and capital needs.
• Identify opportunities where retrocession or other risk-transfer solutions can support the business — going beyond predefined transaction requests to surface new value.
• Develop and evaluate innovative solutions across the full spectrum, from traditional retrocession structures to alternative capital and third-party investor transactions, where applicable in close collaboration with our ILS structuring team.
• Drive transactions from ideation to execution, bringing together expertise across underwriting, structuring, finance, legal, risk and capital management.
• Engage with external markets and counterparties, including traditional reinsurers and alternative capital providers, to understand market appetite and develop new opportunities.
• Strengthen connectivity between L&H and the broader alternative capital partner team, identifying where third-party capital can complement Swiss Re's balance sheet.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, commercial thinking, curiosity and strong ownership.

Kenntnisse

Life & Health reinsurance

Retrocession

Capital management

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Jobbeschreibung

Swiss Re seeks a strategic Head of Life & Health Retro to lead retrocession activities and expand capital solutions for the Life & Health business. You’ll proactively identify opportunities, drive innovative solutions, and oversee execution in collaboration with underwriting, finance, and legal teams.

You will influence the L&H portfolio strategy, manage relationships with external markets and counterparties, and build a high-performing team within Swiss Re's Alternative Capital Partners