Life & Health Transaction Originator - VP or AVP

About the Role

We’re looking for a strategic, proactive Business Development Manager to help drive growth in our Life & Health (L&H) reinsurance business across the US and Canada, with a strong focus on Full Risk Transactions and Structured and Financial Solutions.

Swiss Re partners with insurers to craft bespoke reinsurance transactions that address capital, regulatory, and financial market challenges. Leveraging our global expertise, we help clients optimize balance sheets, enhance liquidity, and support strategic initiatives like M&A, product innovation, and longevity risk management.

This role will help us see over the horizon and invent the next new thing on reinsurance transaction. This role offers the opportunity to be a key contributor in the development of transaction strategies, high-impact client initiatives, and work closely with originators, structurers, and clients to identify and deliver transformative reinsurance solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Identify new transaction prospects with US & Canadian clients in the L&H reinsurance space.
• Analyze client financials and capital structures to uncover reinsurance or structured solutions potential.
• Monitor regulatory, macroeconomic, and industry trends — and translate them into transaction opportunities.
• Build and deliver compelling propositions and pitch materials.
• Partner with Structured Solutions and Market Units to shape innovative deals.
• Work with internal stakeholders (e.g. accounting, risk management) to develop structures that meet customer needs and fit Swiss Re's risk appetite
• Where relevant, assess the client benefits such as capital impact and financial value of proposed transactions.

The Team

The L&H Business Development team plays a pivotal role at the front end of Swiss Re’s transaction value chain. We focus on early-stage lead identification and the development of ideas into tangible business opportunities. Collaborating closely with Client Markets, Transaction Originators, and Structured Solutions teams, we work across markets, clients, and product lines to uncover and shape high-impact, transformative reinsurance solutions.

Our mission is threefold:

1. Transform Macro & Industry Trends into Transaction Opportunity – Track changes in insurance, capital markets, and regulation, and convert these shifts into actionable client solutions and opportunity

2. Scope Transaction Targets and Support Client Engagement – Identify priority clients in the US and Canadian markets and actively foster and support outreach and engagement efforts tailored to their capital or risk needs.

3. Support Business Unit Strategic Initiatives – Provide analytical and execution support for high-priority initiatives focused on expanding the transaction footprint, as endorsed by Swiss Re’s L&H leadership team.

You will report directly to the Global Head of L&H Business Development.

About You

This role can be filled at either VP or AVP level, based on candidate's experience.

At the Vice President level, you will bring:

• At minimum, 8 plus years of experience in L&H re/insurance, with tangible experience combining actuarial, capital management, and structured solutions capabilities
• Proactive and curious self-starter, energized by uncovering and shaping new business cases, even in ambiguous settings.
• Skilled at influencing senior stakeholders, building alignment across complex teams to drive shared commercial goals.
• Relevant experience with reinsurance treatment under statutory accounting, US GAAP, and/or other relevant capital frameworks (e.g., RBC, LICAT, BMA).
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical insights into commercially relevant narratives.
• Solid understanding of L&H products in the US and ideally Canada
• Strong actuarial or technical background with the ability to assess insurance and financial risks and mitigants.
• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field; ASA/FSA or equivalent actuarial designation strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams, including client markets and structuring teams.

At the AVP level, you will bring the following skills and experience:

• 4–8 years of experience in L&H re/insurance, ideally with a focus on actuarial, capital management, or structured solutions.
• Solid understanding of L&H products in the US and ideally Canada
• Strong actuarial or technical background with the ability to assess insurance and financial risks and mitigants.
• First experience with reinsurance treatment under statutory accounting, US GAAP, and/or other relevant capital frameworks (e.g., RBC, LICAT, BMA).
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical insights into commercially relevant narratives.
• Self-starter with a can-do mindset, eager to identify and develop business cases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field; ASA/FSA or equivalent actuarial designation strongly preferred. Having MBA or CFA a plus.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams, including client markets and structuring teams.

Why join Swiss Re L&H Business Development

• Work at the intersection of strategy, finance, and innovation in one of the world’s leading reinsurance companies.
• Be part of a global team making a tangible impact in the US and Canadian markets.
• A gateway into a long-term career in Life & Health structured transactions, client management or transactions origination roles with opportunities to deepen expertise across capital, risk, and product-focused solutions.
• Exposure to clients, senior leadership and high-profile transactions.
• Collaborative, inclusive culture committed to professional development and diversity.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office three days per week.  This role is not eligible for either relocation assistance or visa sponsorship.

The estimated base salary range for this position is for VP is $161,000 to $269,000, and for AVP level is $94,000 to $156,000.  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.