Senior Client Manager Life & Health

Are you ready to shape the future of reinsurance in Asia? Join Swiss Re as Senior Client Manager Life & Health and become the driving force behind strategic client relationships that power business growth across the region. This role offers you the perfect blend of relationship building, strategic business development, and portfolio management in one of the world's leading reinsurance companies.

About the Role

As Senior Client Manager, you'll be the trusted advisor to key clients in the HK & Taiwan market, developing deep relationships while identifying and creating innovative reinsurance solutions. You'll be responsible for managing client portfolios, driving business growth, and ensuring operational excellence across all client engagements and business processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Life & Health (L&H) and Medical business for your accounts in the Hong Kong and Taiwan market, including the development of go-to-market strategies, business planning, KPI monitoring, and accountability for account management, experience and financial performance.
• Build and nurture strategic relationships with C-suite executives and decision-makers at assigned client organizations
• Originate new business opportunities and lead cross-functional teams to deliver differentiated solutions that align with clients' strategic growth objectives
• Support product innovation development, solutions sales, and thought leadership initiatives
• Monitor in-force portfolio performance by reviewing emerging experience, executing treaty actions as needed, identifying trends and risks, and implementing targeted remediation plans when necessary
• Ensure treaty operational excellence by leading cross-functional teams to deliver optimal account management, from onboarding to claims audits
• Contribute to the broader APAX Market Unit in cross-market initiatives and our regional sales community
• Provide coaching and development support to junior team members

About the Team

You'll join Swiss Re's dynamic Life & Health Hong Kong & Taiwan team in Asia, a team dedicated to providing innovative reinsurance solutions to clients. Working closely with underwriting, actuarial, claims, and other solutions teams, you'll be part of a collaborative environment that values expertise, client focus, and market leadership. The team combines deep technical knowledge with commercial acumen to deliver sustainable growth while maintaining Swiss Re's position as a market leader in the region.

About You

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in life (re)insurance.
• Outgoing and confident, with strong communication and negotiation skills. A self-starter and problem-solver with an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to think on your feet.
• Balanced risk management perspective, capable of driving business origination while maintaining vigilance towards emerging risks.
• Technical fluency and commercial awareness across the end-to-end treaty lifecycle. 
  • Good understanding of Life & Health insurance products in the market.
  • Able to interpret experience studies and actuarial data and identify broader trends that may require actions.
  • Possess a strong understanding of valuations, profitability, and experience analyses and understand their implications on the balance sheet. 
• Results-driven and collaborative, with the ability to perform under pressure.
• Excellent command of English; proficiency in Cantonese is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel as required (up to 10%).

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. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. 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.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.