Zurich, Zurich, CH
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Are you passionate about translating business strategy into measurable business impact? Join us at the heart of Swiss Re's transformation journey, where you'll collaborate with senior leaders to reshape the future of P&C Reinsurance.
About the Role
As Consultant in Business Transformation, you will support initiatives that translate strategy into meaningful change across the global P&C Reinsurance business. Working within cross-functional project teams, you will help simplify complex challenges, develop practical solutions, and support delivery across operating models, processes, technology, and culture.
Your responsibilities will include:
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Strategic translation: Structure complex topics into clear problem statements, hypotheses, and workplans
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Project management: Drive delivery, own financial stewardship, milestone planning and stakeholder alignment
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Decision support: Develop robust analyses and decision materials to support leadership discussions
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Delivery assurance: Support delivery activities across design, implementation, and adoption
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Process and solution design: Contribute to process improvements, user journey definition, and process-to-system translation
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Change enablement: Support stakeholder engagement, communication, and change activities to drive practical adoption
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Global collaboration: Collaborate effectively across global and cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are workable and sustainable
The role offers high visibility and broad exposure, with opportunities to build a strong internal network and help shape decisions across the organisation. To strengthen the reinsurance business understanding, opportunities are available to deepen business exposure - for example, supporting Underwriting teams during renewals.
About the Team
Business Transformation is part of P&C Reinsurance and exists to turn strategy into measurable change across the business unit - improving end-to-end ways of working and ensuring initiatives deliver outcomes.
We are a small, experienced and globally distributed team, working across the value chain. We support operating model and process redesign through to implementation, with a strong focus on execution discipline and lasting adoption. Our work spans both strategic transformation and continuous improvement.
About You
You thrive in complex environments and can translate complex business challenges into practical solutions. With strong communication and active listening abilities, you influence and align 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:
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3+ years in management consulting or related professional services roles
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Track record of leading or supporting end-to-end delivery workstreams (scope, plan, stakeholders, risks, budget)
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Strong problem structuring and analytical skills; comfortable with data and ambiguity
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Solid grounding in project and change methodologies (e.g. Agile, Lean, Waterfall, Change Management, Process Engineering)
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Ability to translate between business and tech/data teams (requirements, user journeys, process-to-system mapping)
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Analytical and financial acumen: comfortable with business cases, benefits tracking, and translating recommendations into measurable outcomes
These are additional nice to haves:
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(Re)insurance exposure (e.g. Underwriting, Claims, Technical accounting)
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Digital / AI-enabled transformation exposure
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Operating model design and implementation experience
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Project portfolio management exposure
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Relevant project, change or process management certifications: E.g. PMP, PRINCE2, PROSCI, Lean Six Sigma, Scrum/SAFe exposure
Do not hesitate to apply - we look forward to meeting you.
For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between 104’000 CHF and 156’000 CHF for a full-time role.
The specific salary offered considers:
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the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role
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the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience
In the situation where you do not meet all the requirements or you significantly exceed these, the offered salary may be below or above the advertised range. In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based annual bonus.
Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week.
About iptiQ
At iptiQ, we partner with established brands around the world to create impactful digital insurance solutions. We make it easier for consumers to buy the insurance they need from the brands they trust. We provide life and non-life insurance through our end-to-end digital platform and build multi-channel customer experiences.
What we offer our employees is outstanding. Hybrid working in offices across the world, phenomenal learning & career opportunities and a culture that encourages new perspectives to challenge conventions and come up with innovative solutions. We believe in the power of inclusion. Drawing on our employees' broad range of perspectives, life experiences and backgrounds stimulates creativity and gives us a competitive edge. iptiQ embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive regardless of their age, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, physical or mental ability, or other characteristic and can be their authentic self. Ignite your curiosity to shape digital insurance.
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.
iptiQ is part of Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of re/insurance and risk transfer solutions. This means we’re backed by Swiss Re’s capital strength and more than 150 years of risk knowledge. Through our partnerships, we contribute to Swiss Re’s vision to make the world more resilient.
During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for special needs are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.
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