SVP, Product & Innovation Manager - SCOR GIE Informatique

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 3^rd 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.

Desired Qualifications

• 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.

"Pay Range for this role: $178,000-$260,000 base salary per year. Actual salaries may vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, role and performance. The range listed is just one component of SCOR's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives. In addit