Senior Product Manager - Data-Driven Underwriting Solutions (80-100% working degree)

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Senior Product Manager - Data-Driven Underwriting Solutions (80-100% working degree)

Are you eager to disrupt the insurance industry with us and make an impact? Do you wish to have your talent recognized and rewarded? Then join our internal start-up squad and find an encouraging environment in which we aspire for client delight and make it happen for Swiss Re!

About the Team

This role is within the Global Data Driven Underwriting (DDUW) Solutions team under Swiss Re Life & Health division. You will be joining the DDUW product team who is on a mission to create a best-in-class risk tech solution in underwriting for Life Insurance carriers to address the current industry pain points with disparate data sources.

This team is instrumental in working with clients, regional internal stakeholders and the IT development team to continually evolve the Product suite, bringing market leading capabilities and solutions to our clients.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Manager, you will join a Product team to drive the product design, feature development, prioritization and release management. You will own the EMEA & APAC regional delivery of Data driven UW products like Second level evidence, Underwriting Ease, Digital Health UW etc and work closely with the Product head on expanding to different use cases and client implementations. The candidate is delivery focused and motivated to drive tangible value creation and delight clients.

Deeply passionate and knowledgeable about how data can drive business effectiveness, the selected candidate will also represent the Data Driven UW Solutions team in internal and external initiatives involving markets expansion. As delivery is key, the candidate will also be adept at driving planning and managing stakeholders to ensure efficient and seamless execution and communication of same.

5 Key areas of this role:

  1. Requirements gathering and Ideation – Gather requirements from markets and plan features to address right market need and feedback.
  2. Backlog management – Define and own the features backlog and requirements that enable the product vision and roadmap to be achieved. Sign off development plans and software releases.
  3. Release management – Own configurations, release plans and communication to clients around releases.
  4. Go-to-market – Contribute to marketing, client presentations and communications materials. Create internal and external media like newsletter, yammer posts and proposal decks.
  5. Strategy and partnership – Work with existing product tech partners to drive strategy and manage maintenance of tech feature dependencies.

About You

We are seeking a team player with strong communication and presentation skills, ideally with prior experience in consulting or a B2B environment. Experience in life insurance underwriting or Insurtech product teams is a plus. The ideal candidate will be adaptable, able to coordinate across time zones and regions, and have a positive, 'can do' attitude.

Position Requirements:

  1. 6+ years of experience in managing Software products. Background in Computer Science, Information Management. Basic understanding of insurance value chain and life insurance underwriting in European markets/UKI.
  2. Experience with database queries with SQL, scripting queries like python, basic data analysis, etc.
  3. Experience creating and managing product backlogs, facilitating prioritization, and applying Agile frameworks (ADO, release management). Experience running design thinking workshops & building business case proposals.
  4. Ability to create product roadmaps, applying strategies like RICE, MoSCoW for right-sizing. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle.
  5. Experience working with healthcare/clinical data like GPRs, nurse screenings and UW data like financial reports.
  6. Understanding of AI/machine learning capabilities and rules engine automation and integrating via APIs.

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.

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