Senior Pricing Actuary

Company Description

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Job Description

About this job:

• The position is embedded in the World-Wide Casualty Pricing department, which is part of the Chief Actuarial and Risk Office.
• The successful candidate will join the EMEA Casualty Pricing team in Zurich and has pricing responsibility for Casualty and Motor lines of business across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
• Your core responsibility is to be a Business Partner for the underwriters by providing profitability analysis of markets, segments, and individual transactions.

In this role you will:

• Provide timely and transparent account pricing for the Regional Liability and Specialty Casualty General Liability reinsurance treaty business.
• Develop pricing methodology and parameter for the General Liability line of business across EMEA region.
• Perform market analysis and business reviews that will support PartnerRe portfolio optimization.
• Contribute to the development, testing and maintenance of the corporate pricing tool and reporting landscapes.
• Participate on a variety of project teams (model development, annual parameter studies, ad hoc requests)

A key success factor in this role is regular exchange with Underwriters and other business partners, such as Reserving, Risk Management and Senior Management.

Qualifications

About you:

The ideal candidate profile will have the following background and skills:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience including 3+ years of reinsurance pricing or large account primary insurance pricing experience, and a wish to develop further in this area.
• Strong communication skills and are able to effectively communicate to both internal and external audiences at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to digest detailed reinsurance transactions and able to explain complex points to non-actuarial audiences.
• Flexible and able to listen to different viewpoints and make course corrections when necessary.
• Experience with regional casualty market in EMEA and working knowledge of casualty insurance products is preferrable.
• In addition, you possess a university degree in a quantitative discipline (mathematics, physics, engineering or similar), and ideally have an actuarial qualification or are pursuing one, which we will support. 
• To be a successful business partner you enjoy communicating and working together with different internal and external clients, and are proficient in English. Fluent communication in German is an advantage.
• Last but not least, as a motivated, reliable and adaptable team colleague, you actively contribute to finding solutions.

What we can offer you

An international environment, where you will be challenged, can learn from Senior Specialists and are exposed to multiple lines of business. Our structure fosters collaboration with various partners in different locations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

Additional Information

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PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. We invite you to learn more about D&I at PartnerRe.

Thank you,

PartnerRe Hiring Team