Underwriting Strategy & Transformation Manager (Hybrid)

Are you energized by turning strategic priorities into practical delivery? Do you enjoy structuring complex topics, aligning senior stakeholders, and driving transformation from concept to implementation?

Join Group Underwriting at a pivotal moment in our transformation journey. You will help shape the future of underwriting governance, portfolio steering, and AI-enabled underwriting across Swiss Re, translating complex business priorities into practical change across our global organization. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of underwriting, governance, technology, and business transformation.

About the Role

Our ambition is to modernize how underwriting is governed and steered across P&C and L&H, strengthening underwriting discipline, decision quality, portfolio steering, and the effective use of data, technology, and AI-supported capabilities.

As Underwriting Transformation Manager, you will help turn this ambition into practical change. You will lead high-impact transformation initiatives from strategy to execution, shaping operating models, processes, tools, and ways of working that are adopted across the business.

A key current focus is reimagining underwriting governance across Swiss Re. This includes simplifying governance frameworks, strengthening portfolio-owner steering, modernizing underwriting standards, embedding governance into underwriting workflows, and enabling AI-supported underwriting with appropriate oversight and decision frameworks.

You will act as a connector between underwriting, technology, and business leadership, ensuring transformation moves beyond design and delivers measurable business value.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Strategic translation: Break down complex business challenges into clear problem statements and actionable solution approaches
• Project leadership: Drive delivery, owning financial stewardship, reporting, milestone planning, stakeholder alignment and execution oversight.
• Operating model design: Support the design and implementation of future-state underwriting governance, portfolio steering, and decision-making operating models
• AI/Digital transformation: Lead AI and other digital transformation efforts, shaping robust business cases and driving disciplined execution (scope, timeline, cost, risks, dependencies) through adoption and benefits realisation
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work across business units, functions and regions to ensure solutions are practical, adopted, and sustainable
• Delivery alignment Partner with programme, business and Data & Tech leads to ensure alignment, timely decisions and successful delivery

The role offers high visibility and broad exposure, with opportunities to build a strong internal network and help shape decisions across the organisation.

About the Team

You will join Group Underwriting, working closely with underwriting and transformation leadership across the organisation.

The team plays a critical role in shaping underwriting governance modernisation, portfolio steering, AI-enabled underwriting capabilities, and enterprise underwriting standards across Swiss Re.

About You

You thrive in complex environments where you can apply both strategic thinking and hands‑on execution skills. With excellent communication and active listening abilities, you influence and align senior stakeholders while navigating ambiguity with confidence. Your strong sense of ownership and pragmatic, “can-do” mindset enable you to build consensus among diverse groups and deliver tangible results that drive business value. Combined with your ability to understand both business needs and technical possibilities, you serve as an effective bridge-builder in transformation initiatives.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in management consulting or professional services delivery

• Proven track record of leading complex transformations end-to-end (scope, plan, stakeholders, risks, delivery), including cross-functional teams
• Experience delivering AI-enabled, digital, analytics, or technology-driven transformation initiatives.
• Strong grounding in project and change methodologies (e.g. Agile, Lean, Waterfall, Change Management, Process Engineering)
• Proven ability to bridge strategy and execution, including problem structuring, data analysis, process design, and development of decision-ready artefacts
• Analytical and financial acumen: comfortable with business cases, benefits tracking, and translating recommendations into measurable outcomes
• (Re)insurance expertise and/or value chain understanding in Underwriting, Claims or Operation (preferred) or alternatively substantial experience in supporting other financial services

For Slovakia, the base salary range for this position is between 3.200 EUR and 5.400 EUR 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. Furthermore, you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits. Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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