Underwriting Transformation Manager - Group Underwriting (Hybrid; m/f/x/d; 80-100%)

Are you energized by turning strategic priorities into practical delivery? Do you enjoy structuring complex topics, aligning senior stakeholders, and driving transformation from concept to implementation?

Join Group Underwriting at a pivotal moment in our transformation journey. You will help shape the future of underwriting governance, portfolio steering, and AI-enabled underwriting across Swiss Re, translating complex business priorities into practical change across our global organization. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of underwriting, governance, technology, and business transformation.

About the Role

Our ambition is to modernize how underwriting is governed and steered across P&C and L&H, strengthening underwriting discipline, decision quality, portfolio steering, and the effective use of data, technology, and AI-supported capabilities.

As Underwriting Transformation Manager, you will help turn this ambition into practical change. You will lead high-impact transformation initiatives from strategy to execution, shaping operating models, processes, tools, and ways of working that are adopted across the business.

A key current focus is reimagining underwriting governance across Swiss Re. This includes simplifying governance frameworks, strengthening portfolio-owner steering, modernizing underwriting standards, embedding governance into underwriting workflows, and enabling AI-supported underwriting with appropriate oversight and decision frameworks.

You will act as a connector between underwriting, technology, and business leadership, ensuring transformation moves beyond design and delivers measurable business value.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Strategic translation: Break down complex business challenges into clear problem statements and actionable solution approaches
• Project leadership: Drive delivery, owning financial stewardship, reporting, milestone planning, stakeholder alignment and execution oversight.
• Operating model design: Support the design and implementation of future-state underwriting governance, portfolio steering, and decision-making operating models
• AI/Digital transformation: Lead AI and other digital transformation efforts, shaping robust business cases and driving disciplined execution (scope, timeline, cost, risks, dependencies) through adoption and benefits realisation
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work across business units, functions and regions to ensure solutions are practical, adopted, and sustainable
• Delivery alignment Partner with programme, business and Data & Tech leads to ensure alignment, timely decisions and successful delivery

The role offers high visibility and broad exposure, with opportunities to build a strong internal network and help shape decisions across the organisation.

About the Team

You will join Group Underwriting, working closely with underwriting governance and transformation leadership across the organisation.

The team plays a critical role in shaping underwriting governance modernisation, AI-enabled underwriting capabilities, and enterprise underwriting standards across Swiss Re.

About You

You thrive in complex environments where you can apply both strategic thinking and hands‑on execution skills. With excellent communication and active listening abilities, you influence and align senior 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:

• 5+ years of experience in management consulting or professional services delivery
• Proven track record of leading complex transformations end-to-end (scope, plan, stakeholders, risks, delivery), including cross-functional teams
• Experience delivering AI-enabled, digital, analytics, or technology-driven transformation initiatives.
• 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 and/or value chain understanding in Underwriting, Claims or Operation (preferred) or alternatively substantial experience in supporting other financial services

For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between 126,000 CHF and 188,000 CHF for a full-time role.

The specific salary offered considers:

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role

• 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.