Senior L&H Reinsurance Consultant

Are you passionate about translating strategy into measurable business impact? Join us at the heart of Swiss Re’s Life & Health (L&H) Reinsurance transformation journey, where you will collaborate with senior leaders and market units to shape the future of the L&H business globally. 

About the Role 

As a Senior Consultant in Business Transformation (L&H), you will play a key role in driving and delivering high-impact transformation initiatives across the L&H value chain.

You will lead initiatives end-to-end — from strategic framing through execution and benefits realization — spanning operating models, governance, processes, technology, and ways of working. 

You will act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, helping turn strategic ambition into tangible change that delivers sustainable business outcomes, not just presentations, but results embedded in the organization. 

The role is exciting for someone who embraces variety and challenges; enjoys driving cross-functional teams and can navigate the organization at multiple levels to achieve concrete results and business impact.

Current focus – Strategy execution 

A key part of our L&H transformation agenda is ensuring disciplined execution of strategic priorities across global and market-unit levels, while driving improvements across the L&H value chain. 

In this role, you will be responsible for: 

• Strategic translation: Break down complex business challenges into clear problem statements and actionable solution approaches  

• Initiative leadership: Transform strategic intent into well-defined initiatives with measurable outcomes and robust governance. Drive delivery, owning financial stewardship, milestone planning and stakeholder alignment  

• Challenge the status quo: Be ready to drive innovative solutions and seek alternative approaches to achieve the best outcome for SwissRe L&H 

• Delivery alignment: Partner with L&H Business leaders to ensure alignment, timely decisions and successful initiatives that move beyond experimentation and embed new capabilities into underwriting, claims, in-force management and operations 

• Execution excellence: Strengthen project, program and portfolio management standards across L&H; ensure strategic initiatives are governed, prioritized and executed with clear accountability and measurable impact 

• Cross-functional collaboration: Act as a change agent and connector between business, market units, governance forums, and Data & Tech teams to ensure alignment 

About the Team 

The L&H Business Transformation & Initiatives team, part of L&H Business Advisory, drives change and sustainable performance across the L&H business unit. We convert L&H strategy into measurable execution, champion excellence in project, program and portfolio delivery. Additionally, we run and enhance central governance processes and enable effective resource allocation and decision-making. We are a globally distributed, experienced team working across the entire L&H value chain, combining strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. 

About You 

You thrive in complex, international environments and combine strategic thinking with pragmatic execution. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing stakeholders at all levels. With strong ownership and a structured mindset, you translate ideas into concrete outcomes and measurable impact. You act as a bridge-builder between strategy and execution, global and local, business and technology. 

Required Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, professional services, or transformation/project leadership within insurance or reinsurance 

• Proven track record of leading complex transformations end-to-end (scope, plan, stakeholders, risks, delivery), including cross-functional teams  

• 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 (L&H) and/or value chain understanding in Underwriting, Claims or Operations (preferred) or alternatively substantial experience in supporting other financial services 

Nice to have:

• Experience in operating model design and implementation 

• Experience delivering AI or advanced analytics initiatives in financial services 

• Lean Six Sigma or process excellence background 

• Relevant certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, PROSCI, Agile/Scrum/SAFe, Lean Six Sigma) 

Our company operates under a hybrid work model, with the expectation that employees work from the office three days per week every week. Please note that this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship/visa transfers/visa extension or relocation support.

The estimated base salary range for this position for Armonk, NY, is $128,000 to $192,000, and for Fort Wayne, In, the range is $120,000 to $180,000.  The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

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