Senior Investment Propositions Actuary - Life - 80-100%

This exciting Global role in the Group’s Life Business Management Propositions and Pricing team will require a dynamic and experienced actuary who brings excellent Investment and Savings product and pricing knowledge, combined with strong commercial acumen to drive profitable growth.

What you will do

• Drive profitable growth of Zurich’s Investment and Savings business, covering both unit-linked and traditional savings solutions.

• Provide hands-on product design and pricing support for business units, to ensure solutions meet customer needs while meeting Zurich’s internal requirements

• Support the optimisation of Zurich’s existing open-to-sale investment and savings products, as well as product and pricing aspects of Group product approval processes

• Build and maintain tools to support calculation of Pricing KPIs and sensitivity testing, support BUs in their implementation

• Work with other Group functions to ensure efficiency of solutions, considering Asset-Liability Management and capital consumption.

What you bring

• At least 10 to 15 years Actuarial experience, including expert knowledge of pricing both unit-linked and traditional life insurance investment and savings products, ideally across a range of markets and products. Protection knowledge a plus.

• Significant experience pricing or managing retail Life investment and savings products, as well as a robust knowledge of economic capital models and estimation techniques

• Sound knowledge of Life Asset-Liability Management approaches and considerations as they relate to product design and pricing

• Ability to both lead, and work as part of cross-functional and cross-country teams

• Excellent modelling skills across a range of tools – at a minimum with Excel, but ideally experience with standard tools in the industry e.g. Prophet, but also R / Python

• Strong commercial acumen, including a detailed understanding of propositions from a customer, distributor and shareholder perspective, and an understanding of different life insurance business models and their impacts on pricing and products

• Strong communication skills, verbally and in writing, with a proven ability to work across cultures and geographies

• Proactive self-starter, looking to support Zurich in profitable growth

• Role is English-speaking, however additional language skills are a plus

Qualifications

• Fully qualified actuary with recognised professional body

Additional Information

We look forward to receiving your online application.

Zurich wants to attract the best talent and we acknowledge that talents might not always be available full-time. At Zurich we will consider requests for flexible working. Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of ways. Please talk to us during the interview about the flexibility you may need.

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Information for recruitment agencies

Zurich does not accept any applications from recruitment agencies for this position. We refuse any responsibility for unsolicited applications as well as any associated fees.

Why Zurich

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right?

We are an equal opportunity employer who knows that each employee is unique - that’s what makes our team so great!
Join us as we constantly explore new ways to protect our customers and the planet .

• Location(s): CH - Zürich
• Remote working: Hybrid
• Schedule: Full Time
• Recruiter name: Grace Cunningham