Roles and responsibilities
- Lead the Reinsurance team to deliver on departmental goals and monitor adherence to plan.
- Lead and manage the team, ensuring organisational structure and processes are best fit to serve external and internal customers.
- Review and approval of quotations for new and existing customers in line with growth strategy.
- Ensure that all new business, renewal quotations and pricing requests are addressed in a manner designed to secure clients.
- Positively represent the company internally within the Allianz and externally to the market (including client negotiations).
- Work closely with Portfolio Monitoring team to ensure adequate monitoring and reporting is in place and is shared with the appropriate audience in a timely manner.
- Take action quickly on emerging trends or any changes in the business that impact the accurate of pricing.
- Drive and proactively monitor a consistent and coherent global underwriting governance framework ensuring alignment of processes between the different lines of business.
- Proactively drive involvement of functional areas in the Underwriting and Pricing process, including e.g. Actuarial, Finance, Operations.
- Responsibility for Health, Safety and Welfare within team (please refer to the Company`s Safety Statement for full list of responsibilities)
What you bring:
To be successful in this position you will need to have the following skills/ experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of a proven track record in an Underwriting position, ideally within Dubai Health Reinsurance.
- Minimum of 3 years (re)insurance management experience in a relevant line of business.
- Proven experience of consistently delivering to tight and exacting deadlines.
- Proven track record of successful negotiations with large corporate clients
- Preferably Degree and / or professional insurance qualification (e.g. CII)
- Strong knowledge of Ms Office, especially Excel.
- Demonstrate strong managerial skills and experience, with a hands-on approach; A penchant for being proactive
- Must be highly collaborative.
- Strong communication, attention to detail, time management and leadership skills.
- Ability to motivate teams to produce quality output within tight time frames and simultaneously.
- Professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Highly numerate
- Strong attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proactive, focused and structured attitude to work and an ability to constantly meet deadlines.
- Customer focused
- Comfortable challenging the ideas of others.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment
- Honesty and Integrity
- Presentation skills
- Ability to motivate others
Desired candidate profile