Senior L&H Reinsurance Consultant

Swiss Re • Town of North Castle, NY

5d • $120,000 - $192,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Join Swiss Re's Life & Health (L&H) Reinsurance transformation journey as a Senior Consultant in Business Transformation (L&H). In this role, you will collaborate with senior leaders and market units to shape the future of the L&H business globally. You will lead high-impact transformation initiatives across the L&H value chain, from strategic framing through execution and benefits realization, spanning operating models, governance, processes, technology, and ways of working. You will act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, turning strategic ambition into tangible change that delivers sustainable business outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on variety and challenges, enjoys driving cross-functional teams, and can navigate the organization at multiple levels to achieve concrete results and business impact. The current focus is on strategy execution, ensuring disciplined execution of strategic priorities and driving improvements across the L&H value chain.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, professional services, or transformation/project leadership within insurance or reinsurance.
• Proven track record of leading complex transformations end-to-end (scope, plan, stakeholders, risks, delivery), including cross-functional teams.
• 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 (L&H) and/or value chain understanding in Underwriting, Claims or Operations (preferred) or alternatively substantial experience in supporting other financial services.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in operating model design and implementation.
• Experience delivering AI or advanced analytics initiatives in financial services.
• Lean Six Sigma or process excellence background.
• Relevant certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, PROSCI, Agile/Scrum/SAFe, Lean Six Sigma).

Responsibilities

• Strategic translation: Break down complex business challenges into clear problem statements and actionable solution approaches.
• Initiative leadership: Transform strategic intent into well-defined initiatives with measurable outcomes and robust governance. Drive delivery, owning financial stewardship, milestone planning and stakeholder alignment.
• Challenge the status quo: Be ready to drive innovative solutions and seek alternative approaches to achieve the best outcome for SwissRe L&H.
• Delivery alignment: Partner with L&H Business leaders to ensure alignment, timely decisions and successful initiatives that move beyond experimentation and embed new capabilities into underwriting, claims, in-force management and operations.
• Execution excellence: Strengthen project, program and portfolio management standards across L&H; ensure strategic initiatives are governed, prioritized and executed with clear accountability and measurable impact.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Act as a change agent and connector between business, market units, governance forums, and Data & Tech teams to ensure alignment.

Benefits

• The estimated base salary range for this position for Armonk, NY, is $128,000 to $192,000, and for Fort Wayne, In, the range is $120,000 to $180,000.
• Swiss Re takes 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed