Global Business Development Actuary

Company Description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.

Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger. Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success. The result is a day-to-day experience that will allow you to:
Shape your own career

Grow in a supportive environment

Connect with a community of experts

Make an impact

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**Job Description**:
We offer an exciting, global role that combines product focus with commercial strategy. You will join the Business Development Initiatives team (BDI), to actively support our growth in Life & Health reinsurance (L&H). You will work in 2 primary areas:

- Help develop new L&H (re)insurance products & services, working directly with insurers, PartnerRe experts, and external partners. Our focus is on solutions with global potential.
- Lead global, commercial L&H reinsurance initiatives: setup and execution to help improve our value proposition and the effectiveness of our market teams.

For area #1, you will:

- Help build new L&H reinsurance propositions or retail products, together with our market experts, partners, and clients. You will co-lead the actuarial part, as well as the overall product development and project;
- Leverage local product/service innovation to a global level. Identify, promote, and develop knowledge bases, best practices, and excellence;
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide product and expert views, ideas and recommendations that will drive our growth efforts globally.

For area #2, you will:

- Actively support global and regional efforts to extend our value proposition to drive sustained growth in net income. Develop new partnerships on innovative topics and/or across regions;
- Help our commercial teams to identify and assess market gaps and needs. Conduct market research and evaluation of (re)insurance offerings to deliver new, sustainable, and relevant ideas;
- Help coordinate how we manage international insurers and/or brokers. Monitor key success factors to advance our commercial practices, recommending improvement actions. Support the Head of BDI on shaping and advancing the team’s contribution to L&H strategy and results.

You will need core technical/professional skills, as well as initiative, problem solving and empathy. You will identify opportunities and issues collaboratively and deliver tangible results that matter to our clients and internal stakeholders.

**Qualifications**:
To be successful in this role, you bring the following qualification and experience:

- Life & Health (re)insurance product development experience (5+ years) and technical understanding. Strong preference for Qualified Actuary with pricing and product development expertise, proven in their track record and knowledge across multiple markets
- Knowledge of pricing, distribution, underwriting journey. Ambition to find the next great product or service that delivers value to customers and recognition to PartnerRe.
- A curious, analytical, creative mind to own the project, from ideation to product/actuarial execution and overall proposition development. High degree of autonomy and agility, as part of a small team. Ability to deal with ambiguity and abstraction.
- Ability to translate concepts into tangible action plans. Ability to communicate, align resources and get things done through influencing with peers and seniors
- Comfortable in an environment where ideas are shared, challenged, and can change often. Active listener, bring energy and a real desire to contribute to a high-performing team that helps the business unit achieve great heights together

Helpful if you have/are:

- Project management skills - for business, not IT, initiatives
- Product manager skills - in the (re)insurance industry
- A cross-functional, global network (or ability to build one quickly)
- You tell us: Let us know how you think you would be a good fit