SVP, Product & Innovation Manager

Within the Product and Innovation Team, you are Product & Innovation Manager in charge of (i) supporting Reinsurance and Specialty Insurance underwriting teams in their underwriting development projects and (ii) building a portfolio of new insurance products, systems and services (in-house and through partnerships). You will benefit from SCOR P&C resources and will interact with market/client managers to steer a wide range of initiatives including interaction with clients. Your generalist UW expertise, Data science interest and PMO capabilities will be key success factors for the Product & Innovation portfolio. 

As the P&C Product & Innovation Manager, you will support Reinsurance and Specialty Insurance underwriting teams in their efforts to develop insurance products and services for treaty and corporate clients:

• Participate to any underwriting development projects:
  • either on Specialty Insurance or for our Reinsurance clients,
  • for mature products
  • and innovative opportunities.
• Develop a pipeline of New Products opportunity:
  • Provide market insight and development
  • Investigate, analyze existing and new markets in the area and propose new solutions, new businesses to develop the existing portfolio
  • Investigate on partnership models 
  • Evaluate and advice 3rd party providers
• Support Underwriters on Innovation topics
  • Bring technical expertise on new product / services
  • Visit client with Underwriters when needed to present new products /services
  • Support underwriters in client negotiation if needed
  • Actively participate, contribute and collaborate to UW planning, business initiative and implementation process to both Reinsurance and Specialty Insurance 
• Based on your generalist expertise, work with SCOR P&C functions to evaluate various requirements of any Underwriting Development Project:
  • Risk modeling
  • Actuarial Pricing
  • Insurance Wording
  • UW guidelines
  • Distribution
  • Capacity / Reinsurance arrangements
  • Legal and regulatory 
• Based on your strong PMO skills, and leveraging the existing P&I core team experience, construct and lead deal teams across SCOR P&C to bring the necessary support to the execution of the successive steps of a specific Underwriting Development Project:
  • Opportunity identification
  • Feasibility study (including assessment of potential IT partner)
  • Proof of Concept (including management of potential IT partner)
  • Progressive UW delegation
  • Geographical roll-out
• Produce reports of various formats for reporting purposes as required.

• A minimum of a college degree, or equivalent experience, in Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent discipline. Business degree in addition would be a plus.
• Ideally, a minimum of 10/15 years work experience on similar fields in an international environment
• Strong experience in Data science
• Ability to work within a team, to share work and information with other team members
• Proven underwriting skills for diverse and large companies (wordings, quotations),
• Proven International exposures, 
• Risk management knowledge, reinsurance and insurance, 
• Ability to define and implement a business plan
• Ability to manage teams (direct and remote), projects and deals with their specificities
• Communication, interpersonal skills
• Analytical, organizational and reporting skills
• Proactivity
• Autonomy
• Curiosity
• Flexibility
• Negotiation skills
• Ability to travel up to 33% FTE
• Spanish language would be a plus

Hybrid Work Policy: SCOR is committed to an "in-office" culture where people can collaborate, exchange ideas, and establish stronger working relationships while still providing flexibility. To support employee work-life balance and increase opportunities for employees to excel every day, SCOR operates with a hybrid working arrangement. SCOR employees work 3 days per week in an office with the flexibility to work 2 days per week remotely.<