VP, Pricing Actuary

About RenaissanceRe

For over three decades, RenaissanceRe has helped its clients manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world. We’re experts in Property, Casualty, Specialty, and Credit reinsurance, consistently recognized for the innovative way we combine data, experience and technology to understand and manage large and complex risks across the world. We are also a business with a real social purpose - we help protect communities around the globe and enable prosperity for all. Our purpose drives us forward every day as we seek solutions to some of the world's most complicated challenges.    To learn more, please visit us at Careers - RenaissanceRe (renre.com).

About RenaissanceRe’s Pricing Function

Our Pricing team is a collaborative global team of pricing analysts and actuaries tasked with building a complete and consistent view of risk for inwards transactions across the organisation. We work closely with underwriting teams to deliver accurate and insightful analysis alongside the development of loss estimates for individual transactions. From analysing large datasets to developing bespoke methodologies, we are responsible for handling a wide range of tasks with precision, expertise, and professionalism. Emphasizing teamwork, continuous learning, and innovation, we stay at the forefront of industry best practices to adapt to changing market dynamics.

About the Position

The VP Actuary is responsible for the evaluation and pricing of opportunities in all lines of business relevant to the Zurich platform, primarily focusing on but not limited to Marine, Energy, Construction, and Property lines.

The VP Actuary role is based in the Zurich office and will be expected to travel primarily within Europe, with select travel to other RenRe offices.  This individual will manage the Zurich pricing team.

We believe that meeting the below requirements will position you for success in the role. However, if you fulfil most – but not all – of the expectations, we still encourage you to apply, as we are eager to explore your potential and believe in the ability to grow and learn.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with underwriters and analysts to perform qualitative and quantitative actuarial analyses to assess the profitability of complex inwards reinsurance contracts

• Recruit and manage team members, develop their skillsets, and oversee workflows in collaboration with the underwriting team

• Peer-review pricing analyses performed by the Zurich pricing and analyst teams

• Communicate analyses effectively to underwriters and senior management

• Continuously improve the selection and pricing of risk through assisting the development and refinement of internal pricing tools

• Collaborate with all actuarial teams across the global organisation and follow consistent pricing practices and approaches

• Liaise with underwriters and communicate with brokers and clients regarding information requirements for increased effectiveness in evaluation of opportunities

• Learn to use RenaissanceRe systems to effectively extract, manipulate and report on key insights concerning the Zurich portfolio

• Carry out and manage reparameterization exercises to update pricing models as part of in-depth line of business studies, with a focus on territories and classes relevant to the Zurich platform

• Contribute to the ongoing development of RenaissanceRe’s proprietary modelling capabilities by bringing specific skills and knowledge to the organization

• Track industry trends, engage with data aggregators and generally enhance the group’s knowledge of market characteristics with utilization of relevant information, both proprietary and publicly available

Candidate Qualifications:

• A university degree with emphasis on mathematics, statistics, economics, finance or a similar field

• Attained status of FIA, ACAS, FCAS, SAV or similar

• 8+ years of experience in the insurance industry with a minimum of 5 years in reinsurance; significant prior experience in pricing of inwards reinsurance treaties, ideally with a focus on Specialty classes

• Advanced knowledge of the common types of reinsurance and how they are relevant and applicable to each line of business

• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively explain technical information to a wide range of audiences, including the broader actuarial function, underwriters, brokers, clients, and external vendors

• Experience in building and managing teams and developing talent

• Excellent understanding of insurance products, coverages, and markets

• Detailed knowledge of actuarial methods including trending, loss development, fitting of loss distributions, frequency/severity modelling techniques, and (re)insurance data sources

• Superior quantitative skills, intellectually curious and willing to question underlying assumptions to ensure the results are sound

• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of applications and database querying

• Manages expectations effectively and adapts to changing needs, concerns and priorities of clients/stakeholders

• Programming knowledge an advantage

At RenaissanceRe, we believe in creating a workplace culture that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our business. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination and take proactive steps to make employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success. It is RenRe’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/ civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.