Head of Cyber Center of Competence (80 - 100%)

About the team

Our Cyber Centre of Competence team is embedded in the Cat Perils, Cyber & Geo department within the Swiss Re Institute (SRI), a Group function steering underwriting risk taking and servicing the various business units. Our remit is to craft opportunities and handle downside risks in cyber re/insurance where Swiss Re has a significant global business footprint.

The SRI’s overarching purpose is to build competitive advantage in risk knowledge and capital allocation for the Swiss Re Group. It executes R&D to ensure that capabilities remain cutting edge, maintain our underwriting excellence and incubate new business. We develop forward-looking views on risk pools and craft roadmaps to grow sustainably our business.

About the Role

You would lead Swiss Re’s expertise building in the Cyber re/insurance domain. You improve the performance of the group-wide cyber re/insurance portfolio underwritten in the business units by steering capital to the most promising risk pools in Cyber. Your remit is global. To that end you’ll lead a team of cyber actuaries and security specialists with currently 6 members.

Main responsibilities:

• Complete the build-up and lead the Cyber Centre of Excellence – expertise building, talent development, outreach into business units.

• Develop and advance Group-wide accumulation control and costing processes for affirmative and non-affirmative cyber, implemented in business units’ workflows and underwriting IT infrastructure, based on own R&D, vendor model expertise and third-party R&D.

• Advance and scale infrastructure to collect, curate and exploit internal and external cyber exposure and claims data as a backbone for fact driven underwriting and steering decisions.

• Shape the target cyber underwriting portfolio for the Group over the near - and medium-term, on the back of captured market insights.

• Take major influence on underwriting expertise building and challenge underwriting risk taking decisions.

• Make the team a world-class and sought-after thought leader – for the company´s senior management, for its underwriters, and in the insurance market

  
  

About You

Are you eager to push the expertise boundaries of a flourishing line of business in re/insurance & do you feel comfortable stepping into new territories? Do you relish today’s rapid technological advancements in data analytics, always with an eye on business opportunities & do you like to transform data, facts and expertise into impactful business decisions?

You have knowledge and technical expertise:

• Excellent University degree, preferably in a field closely related to computer science or information technology/security

• 10 years or more of professional experience, preferably both, in an IT security environment, and in a re/insurance underwriting/actuarial/risk management practice

• Solid understanding of insurance products and Cyber specific underwriting capabilities & state-of-the-art IT and database tools in sophisticated corporate environments

• Solid handling of analytical techniques, including ability to encourage, trigger and assure sophisticated analytical work

• Proficiency in English, other languages are a plus

  
  

Your leadership competencies:

• Strategic mind set, creative thinking, a desire for continuous development and learning, and strong capability in global vision and strategy shaping

• You have a strong eye for business to put your and your team’s work in a financial impact context at all times

• A strong results orientation and can-do demeanour - you are a hands-on shaper, show passion, energy, and excitement

• Prioritize, delegate and mentor your team members to succeed

  
  

Building positive relationships and influence others:

• Engaging personality coupled with the gravitas needed for this leadership role

• Prepared to voice unpopular views when vital

• A communicator at all levels with the ability to represent Swiss Re with external partners and SRI towards Group Board members

  
  

We are looking forward to your application!

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