Senior Structurer - Alternative Risk Transfer - NYC

This is an opportunity to join our Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) Americas team.  If you thrive on achieving profitability and growth targets, this role may be the right fit for you?  We are looking for someone who can bring leadership skills, loves collaborating with internal and external partners, and has experience leading complex transactional insurance deals!  

About the Role:

This position is accountable for the performance of the ART Americas business segment based on pre-agreed Key Performance Indicators.  The Structurer enables profitable growth by generating and cultivating a strong transaction pipeline in a variety of structured insurance products and solutions. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Source, structure, and sell bespoke solutions jointly with underwriting, customer and broker distribution management for structured insurance products and solutions.


• Drive the formulation, execution and regulatory compliance of the business strategy based on accounting, tax and legal requirements to mitigate reputational risk.


• Consult and structure transactions with risk managers and C-Suite of our corporate customers and brokers.


• Develop and maintain professional relationships with key internal parties and external clients, brokers, risk, and financial managers, including high profile at industry events, media outreach and speaking engagements.


• Meet plan objectives in collaboration with regional customer and broker distribution managers, underwriting teams and internal professional service providers.


• Develop and promote a high-performance environment in which success is dependent on an inclusive team approach, cultivating key works with internal parties, customer and broker distribution managers, underwriting, risk management as well as Swiss Re group support teams such as Operations, Legal, Accounting, Tax and Finance.

About the Team:

Driving the innovation in products, solutions, and process, we ensure the ART Americas team is known in the market as a consistent and reliable partner for innovative Parametric Nat Cat solutions.  Our team takes pride in growing the portfolio and being an industry leader in the development of new products and solutions!

About You:

Do you enjoy working in a multi-cultural and cross-functional environment?  Can you bring sound strategic, negotiating, and decision-making skills along with excellent communication acumen?  If this sounds like you and you have the following skill sets then we look forward to hearing from you!

• Master's or bachelor's degree preferred in corporate finance, economics, mathematics; or equivalent education


• Minimum of 8 years of experience working in the North American insurance market in underwriting (property, treaty, etc.), risk management or insurance sales/marketing complemented by practical experience in structuring and executing structured insurance solutions


• Solid knowledge of traditional and structured insurance products and markets


• Strong financial acumen with deep capital and financial management proficiency as well as analytical and modelling capabilities


• Strong entrepreneurial mindset and focus on execution, and a pronounced bias towards closing deals


• Excellent collaborator with the ability to work well in a virtual team environment

**Willingness to travel is required.

Swiss Re has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office three days per week.

The estimated base salary range for this position in NYC is $136,000 to $204,000. 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 within VP band, 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.