Global Head, Specialty Reinsurance
Swiss Re
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $300,000 - $500,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- You are accountable for the underwriting performance, portfolio resilience and the profitable growth of Swiss Re’s global Specialty reinsurance portfolio.
- You carry a global P&L responsibility and lead the Specialty business across Agriculture, Aviation, Cyber, Engineering & Nuclear, and Marine & Energy.
- You operate as a trusted partner to the P&C Re Executive team, shaping priorities, steering capital and representing Swiss Re externally with clients, brokers and industry bodies.
- Owns, steers and profitably grows the global Specialty portfolio with clear accountability for new and in-force businesses.
- Holds the ultimate UW pen and therefore accountability for risk appetite definition, underwriting standards and their consistent application across lines and regions.
- Guides complex, material or precedent-setting underwriting decisions, balancing commercial ambition with disciplined risk judgement and long-term portfolio resilience.
- Actively monitors portfolio performance, emerging risk signals and accumulation exposures, intervenes decisively where underwriting action is required to protect capital and earnings.
Requirements
- Extensive senior executive leadership experience with proven track record across underwriting, portfolio management and senior client/broker leadership management.
- Proven ability to lead leaders and manage large, diverse teams across geographies.
- Deep understanding of underwriting governance, risk appetite and portfolio steering, with recognized or progressing senior underwriting authority.
- Strong strategic judgement, commercial acumen and confidence operating with C-suite clients and senior internal stakeholders.
- Highly developed nontechnical skills including decision-making, negotiation, stakeholder management and comfort navigating ambiguity.
- A strong belief in data and technology as performance enablers, with experience driving adoption and change.
- Fluency in English; additional languages desired.
Benefits
- Total compensation approach considering base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
underwritingportfolio managementrisk appetite definitionunderwriting standardsportfolio performance monitoringemerging risk signals analysiscapital protectionearnings protectionstrategic judgementcommercial acumen
Soft Skills
senior executive leadershipteam managementdecision-makingnegotiationstakeholder managementnavigating ambiguityconfidence with C-suite clientscross-geographical leadershipcommunicationtrust building