Swiss Re
Business Development Manager
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About the Role
We're looking for a strategic and proactive Business Development Manager to help drive growth in our Life & Health (L&H) transaction business, with a particular focus on Structured and Financial Solutions and Full Risk Transfer Transactions.
About the Team
Swiss Re Life & Health partners with insurers on bespoke reinsurance transactions that address capital, financial market challenges, and risk transfer.
The L&H Business Development team sits at the front end of this transaction value chain. We identify emerging transaction opportunities, develop origination strategies together with our Market Units, Transaction Teams, and clients to turn market insights into innovative reinsurance solutions.
This role offers significant exposure to senior leaders across Market Units and Transaction teams, providing the opportunity to influence strategic priorities and shape the future direction of our Life & Health transaction business. You'll help anticipate where the market is heading and shape the next generation of transactions through strategic initiatives and proactive client engagement in close collaboration with originators and structurers.
Our work focuses on three key areas:
- Transform market trends into transaction opportunities
- Turn developments across insurance, capital markets, and regulation from client needs into concrete transaction leads.
- Drive proactive transaction origination
- Proactively identify and target new opportunities across assigned markets, develop related commercial narratives, and foster engagement aligned to clients' capital, financial, and risk management needs.
- Advance strategic growth initiatives
- Support high-priority Business Unit initiatives and strategies that expand our transaction franchise, strengthen origination capabilities, and shape the future of reinsurance transactions.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Develop new Life & Health reinsurance transaction opportunities across UK & Ireland, EMEA, and selected global markets, with a focus on Structured and Financial Solutions and Full Risk Transfer transactions.
- Partner with Transaction Originators, Structured Solutions, Market Units, and other technical experts to shape and drive the origination of innovative reinsurance transactions.
- Create a deep understanding of clients' strategic, capital, and financial objectives, and shape differentiated value propositions that address their evolving needs.
- Anticipate regulatory, macroeconomic, and industry developments and translate market insights into commercially compelling transaction opportunities and client propositions.
- Influence and collaborate across Swiss Re to strengthen our transaction capabilities, develop new client solutions, and advance our transaction proposition.
- Act as a senior contributor, building trusted relationships across internal and external stakeholders while driving strategic initiatives without direct people management responsibility.
- You will report directly to the Head of L&H Business Development.
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What We’re Looking For:
- 8+ years of experience in Life & Health re/insurance, with proven experience in complex reinsurance or capital solutions transactions.
- A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for identifying opportunities, pushing boundaries, developing business cases, and creating long-term client value.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts into commercially compelling client propositions and strategic business opportunities.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, including client markets, structuring, underwriting, and actuarial functions.
- Strong technical expertise in actuarial, capital management, structured solutions, or financial reinsurance, combined with a commercial mindset.
- Solid understanding of Life & Health reinsurance products in the UK&I or EMEA.
- Strong understanding of reinsurance treatment under Solvency II, IFRS, and/or other relevant capital or accounting frameworks.
- Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join Swiss Re Group - one of the world's leading wholesale providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other innovative forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Our business at Swiss Re is about understanding and analyzing the major risks that concern the world - from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. We combine experience with expertise and innovative thinking to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. And we enable the risk-taking essential to enterprise and progress. This is only possible with around 15,000 truly exceptional Swiss Re people across our group worldwide.
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Compensation & Work Model
The salary range for this position is GBP 90,000 - GBP 134,000 (full-time equivalent), depending on experience, qualifications, skills, and the scope of the role. We operate a hybrid working model, with a minimum of three days per week in the office. We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not received a response, please check your spam folder.
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. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. 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 15,000 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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