Senior Client Partner - France

Company Description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

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Job Description

You will provide support to the France market team. The team is responsible for business development, finding new customers and developing new reinsurance opportunities with them. You will also be responsible for the commercial management of a portfolio of business. In this market, we underwrite short and long-term individual and group protection contracts, and selectively provide product development, pricing, underwriting and reinsurance structuring services.

Your main responsibilities and tasks will be as follow:

• Develop and manage a portfolio of mainly group business reinsured under treaties with PartnerRe, whilst improving profitability in line with plan objectives.
• Apply underwriting authority in accordance with the limits set.
• Ensure the proper management of your portfolio in terms of accounts, claims and underwriting interactions, treaty set-up and maintenance.
• Lead the tendering process, including commercial negotiations, for new and existing opportunities.
• Coordinate with our actuarial, operational, and legal teams to respond to opportunities.
• Maintain and develop our network of key clients and market relationships.
• Monitor developments in the life insurance market and develop new business opportunities.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you bring the following skills and experience:

• Underwriting, business development and negotiation skills.
• Good knowledge of the various group insurance markets, life insurance products and trends.
• Technical skills in reinsurance desirable
• Qualified actuary - an asset
• Autonomous and able to manage time and multiple priorities effectively.
• Strong command of MS Office, Excel and SalesForce (or similar software)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in French
• Good command in English.

Additional Information

PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best.  We invite you to learn more about D&I at PartnerRe.

Thank you,

Pa