Head of Pricing Americas

About MS Reinsurance

MS Reinsurance is a global reinsurer domiciled in Switzerland. With underwriting offices in Zurich Bermuda Miami and New York MS Reinsurance provides best-in-class reinsurance products and services to clients around the world. As part of the world-leading insurance group MS&AD MS Reinsurance is a trusted long-term partner helping clients turn risks into opportunities through deep technical expertise and bespoke reinsurance solutions.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to oversee all technical pricing aspects associated with reinsurance treaties with exposures in the US and Latin America and manage the Technical Pricing team members based in New York Bermuda and Miami. The role works within the broader Technical Pricing team in identifying the requirements and specifications of the pricing models and contributing to their continuous improvement. This will include providing support in the embedding of robust actuarial methods as well as model calibration. This position will oversee and perform case pricing and rate monitoring and ad hoc support with the claims reserving process. This position reports to the Head of Pricing.

Your responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of timely and accurate actuarial input to assist underwriters with individual risk pricing including draft pricing results and explanation of cost drivers and material movements.
• Develop a detailed technical understanding of existing pricing models in order to assist with future development and refinement.
• Contribute to the development and parameterisation of new pricing models within MS Reinsurances technical pricing framework.
• Oversee the production and validation of portfolio pricing statistics for US and Latin American markets.
• Collaborate and share knowledge with the wider pricing and actuarial team on pricing approaches and analyses.
• Manage and develop team members.

Your profile

• 15 years of relevant work experience.

• Extensive reinsurance pricing experience.

• Experience with managing actuarial team members.

• Strong knowledge of US Casualty market and pricing practices.

• Experience working with Latin American/non-US reinsurance markets strongly preferred.

• ACAS designation required. FCAS designation strongly preferred.

• Communication skills in Spanish preferred.

• Strong quantitative analytical skills.
• Strong IT skills particularly MS Excel VBA and SQL experience desirable.
• Knowledge of programming languages (R Python) desirable.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to coordinate effectively with multiple departments within the organisation.

Why work with us

Make your mark with us. At MS Reinsurance were big enough to make a difference and small enough that everyone counts.

We offer an entrepreneurial culture where theres less hierarchy and more action and room for innovation. Here youll have the power to drive real change and shape our path ahead.

Join a place where ambition can become reality with development and platforms that support where you want to go next. Together well help you discover your potential as we expand ours.

We live day-to-day by our values: collaborative progressive empowering and responsible. This means youll join a team which upholds mutual trust and treats each other with respect. While teamwork is at the heart of our approach to reinsurance we dont expect our team to think alike; at MS Re we dont just welcome your differences we believe theyre essential to our success.

Does this sound like a culture you want to be part of Find out more about what we offer on our websiteand apply today!

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Note that we will only consider applicants eligible to work in the United States.

Salary Range: $325000- $365000

MS Reinsurance is the market-facing brand of the risk carrying legal entity MS Amlin AG a global reinsurer domiciled in Switzerland and operating in Bermuda as MS Amlin AG Bermuda Branch in the United States through MS Amlin Reinsurance Managers Inc and in Labuan Malaysia as MS Amlin AG Labuan Branch.

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