Project Management Support (40-60 %)

About Swiss Re

About the role

You are a motivated and business oriented student who is eager to apply knowledge gained at university hands-on? Then this is your opportunity to join Swiss Re Group - one of the world’s leading wholesale providers of reinsurance, insurance and other innovative forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Our business at Swiss Re is about understanding and analysing the major risks that concern the world - from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. We combine experience with expertise and innovative thinking to build new opportunities and solutions for our clients, and we enable the risk-taking crucial to the progress of enterprises. This is possible with around 14,000 truly outstanding Swiss Re people across our group worldwide.

Swiss Re Consultancy provides a range of consulting services to partners across the Group. You will be a member of a pool of Project Management Officers (PMO) who support our consultants in their projects:

• structuring and setup of program and project organisations

• crafting and updating of key documents such as project definition documents, charters, business cases, steering board presentations, risk and action logs etc.

• scheduling and handling meetings with partners and internal customers, project teams, steering boards etc.

• designing, conducting and assessing communications and partner engagement activities

• supervising and controlling scope, schedule, resources and financials

• on-boarding new team members to the program or project

• conducting training needs analysis and implementing the training approach, i.e. plan, prioritise and monitor training sessions, coordinate training material design

• acting as central collection and dissemination point for program/project management related information

• being a role model and ambassador for the application of Swiss Re internal guidelines and project management standards

About you

• Bachelor or masters student of Business/Management studies, Social Sciences, or Communications

• Strong interest (and preferably previous experience) in Project Management

• Able to navigate ambiguity, flexible and pragmatic

• "Can do demeanour": strong sense of ownership paired with high levels of intrinsic motivation and energy

• Autonomous and critical thinker, self-organised and structured

• Good analytical skills, including attention to detail without losing track of the big picture

• Good at taking care of people and at receiving and giving constructive feedback in a timely manner

• Very good MS Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint

• Excellent spoken and written English skills, German is plus

• Ability and willingness to work towards goals while keeping high quality standards

Benefits

• International environment - you will work in English within dedicated teams in Zurich, together with colleagues across the globe (United States, Slovakia, India, etc).

• Space for professional growth

• Flexible working hours and home office

• and more - apply to find out!

Duration of engagement: minimum 1, maximum 4 years at 40-60%, starting as soon as possible

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Swiss Re offers modern work models and attractive work places that allow all employees to adapt to changing work preferences and life phases.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.