Life & Health Insurance Consulting - Senior Manager

Locations: New York, NY, US | Fort Wayne, IN, US | Armonk, NY, US

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office two to three days per week on average. 

Are you an insurance consultant with a real passion for understanding and analysing client's needs, challenges, and delivering effective business solutions? Are you a Life and Health 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 across the insurance value chain to our clients. 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 role within the Americas consulting team with ownership of client delivery, people management (direct and indirect), and evolving and growing the overall consulting value proposition. 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: 

• Leading delivery of consulting engagements to clients, 

• Building and managing multi-disciplined project teams 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 Life and Health consulting, 

• Defining and evolving the overall L&H consulting proposition developing new value propositions aligned to client needs and market opportunities, 

• Working together with Sales team to support client research and discovery, as well as origination and sales of new client engagements, 

• Close collaboration with stakeholders across Swiss Re on development of new capabilities and data assets. 

About Swiss Re Solutions Risk Consulting & Analytics (RCA) 

'Solutions' is a central pillar of the Swiss Re 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.  

About you: 

You have strong analytical problem-solving skills, business mindset, can-do attitude, and ability to assimilate complex information. You also have desire and passion to work in a dynamic, high-impact client-facing role. 
  

Essentials: 

• 10-15 years consulting background and experience delivering consulting engagements to clients, 

• Experience in directly managing teams as well as leading cross-functional/multi-disciplinary project teams, 
• Excellent knowledge of the primary insurance market for Life and Health lines of business, having worked for an insurer, broker, consulting firm or analytics company,  

• Ability to interpret complex analysis and turn it into actionable insights through impactful storytelling, 

• Interacting & communicating with senior management and diverse client stakeholders, 

• Flexibility to travel occasionally,  

Nice to have: 

• Demonstrated experience in consultative sales or supporting consultative selling, 
• Experience in primary insurance Life and Health underwriting, pricing / actuarial methods, or claims, 

• Expertise in statistical tools, programming languages, and visualization tools (e.g. Python, R, SQL, MS PowerBI). 

We are looking forward to your application! 

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For Armonk, NY, the estimated base salary range for this position is $143,000 to $256,000.  The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.