Head L&H Retro Structuring

About You

You combine a strong understanding of Life & Health reinsurance and risk transfer with a commercial, solution-oriented mindset. You are naturally curious about the underlying business problem and comfortable challenging established approaches when a better solution exists. You thrive working across organisational boundaries, build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders with ease, and can translate complex risk, capital and structuring considerations into clear business choices.

We are looking for candidates who meet these 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 the ability to lead complex deals from structuring through to 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

These are additional nice to haves:

• Experience with alternative capital structures and third-party investor transactions in a reinsurance or insurance context

• Familiarity with ILS (Insurance-Linked Securities) markets and the broader alternative capital ecosystem

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of proactively identifying and developing new business opportunities

• Experience working in a global, cross-functional environment, navigating diverse stakeholder groups across geographies

• Knowledge of regulatory and accounting frameworks, in particular IFRS-17

For London, the base salary range for this position is between 168'000 GBP to 252'000 GBP for a full-time role. The specific salary offered considers: 

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role 

• the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience 

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.