We are offering an outstanding opportunity to join a collaborative, cross functional team within Swiss Re's Life and Health business in the EMEA region. As part of our Experience Studies team, you'll analyze portfolio performance, support key stakeholders, and deliver actionable insights that help set best estimates, define valuation assumptions, and steer management decisions.
About the Role
As a Products Actuary specializing in Experience Studies, you'll support the EMEA Experience Studies Lead with activities that provide broad exposure to L&H business across the region. Your analytical expertise will directly influence business decisions and portfolio performance.
Key Responsibilities
Analyze data in R across products and markets to assess portfolio performance and emerging trends
Develop and maintain experience studies that support best estimate assumptions and valuation inputs
Ensure data quality and consistency across studies and reporting frameworks
Collaborate cross-functionally with pricing, valuation, client markets, and portfolio steering teams to align insights
Promote and share findings clearly to stakeholders and decision-makers
Participate in global initiatives to harmonize experience analysis practices and share insights across regions
Ensure compliance with global experience governance standards, methods, and process requirements
About the Team
The Experience Studies EMEA team is an international unit dedicated to monitoring and analyzing Life and Health experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. We ensure correct assumptions are used for pricing and reserving of the portfolio to maintain long-term profitability. Our insights directly support strategic decision-making across the business, making our work essential to the company's success and sustainability.
About You
You're an analytical thinker with excellent communication skills who thrives in collaborative environments. You enjoy building working relationships across technical subject areas and can translate complex data into meaningful business insights. Your ability to work optimally across the L&H value chain, including with non-actuaries, makes you an ideal candidate for this role.
We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:
First professional experience in the actuarial domain with 1-4 years of experience
Working towards an actuarial qualification
Prior experience with Python and/or R
Understanding and knowledge of L&H insurance products
Strong documentation and governance mindset
Excellent communication skills, including ability to present and discuss results with clients and internal stakeholders
Written and verbal proficiency in English is required
These are additional nice to haves:
German, French, Italian, Dutch or any other European languages are an asset
Experience connecting data insights to broader business implications
Knowledge of how experience studies influence assumption setting, profitability, and strategic decisions
Experience working in international or cross-cultural teams
For Switzerland, the base salary range for this position is between CHF 80.000 and CHF 120.000 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.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
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.
We may use AI-powered tools to support the review and evaluation of applications for this position. These tools provide additional insights to our recruitment teams, but all hiring decisions are carefully reviewed and made by people. To learn more about how we use AI in recruitment and how we handle your personal data, please review our Data Privacy Statement before applying.
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