About the Role
We are looking for a curious and motivated individual to join us strengthen our collaboration with the regional market units, identifying their and their clients' (primary insurers) painpoints and executing solutions to address them. This is a unique opportunity to craft behavioural science applications in the insurance industry.
The focus of the role would be on the UK&I and EMEA markets.
The location is London, with presence in the office on most days and flexibility provided through Swiss Re's award-winning Own-The-Way-You-Work programme.
This is a 2-year contract.
Your responsibilities include:
• Grow and deliver the pipeline of consultancy services for our market units, including: organizing listening exercises with these business stakeholders, reading strategy papers and business documents to assess business challenges; diagnosing behavioural challenges and solving for them; prioritising projects; managing stakeholders.
• Consultancy services: running training sessions for our internal staff; producing literature reviews and summarising these for a non-expert internal and potentially external audience; working with other behavioural scientists in other business units who may scale and execute on some of your ideas.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to ensure their buy-in and business relevance of our projects to achieve the goal to generate commercial impact.
• Partner with the internal behavioural science community.
About You
Technical requirements:
• Relevant training: a post-graduate qualification such as a degree in Behavioural Science, Economics, Psychology; or professional training; or extensive applied experience involving behavioural research.
• Knowledge and experience of applications of behavioural research to sales, negotiations and communications would be highly desirable.
• 3 years of professional experience in consulting or working in the insurance industry.
• Ideally you have experience in driving projects from ideation to execution.
• Excellent ability to communicate in English to a variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent presentation skills when transposing your ideas into slide decks, videos, articles, or other written formats of communication.
• German and French highly desirable.
Soft skills:
• You are a fast learner and curious about anything to do with human behaviour and the insurance industry.
• You have demonstrated you are an effective consultant, able to partner with and manage stakeholders skilfully, securing their buy-in and producing high quality outputs.
• You are a strategic thinker and can make sense of a complex corporate matrix environment in a short amount of time and are able to deliver value on what can generate the most impact.
• You are a sound project manager with experience coordinating cross-functional teams.
We are looking forward to your application!
Applications for this role will be open untill 21.7.24. We will review all applications and provide feedback after the posting is removed.
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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.
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