Executive Product Leader Casualty (m/f/d)

Beschreibung

Department description / job purpose / role

Reinsurance is positioned at the core of the Allianz Group. At Allianz Reinsurance, we provide customized reinsurance solutions by combining technical expertise with deep local market knowledge. Building on our core strengths, we continuously expand our offerings, including advancements in portfolio analytics, catastrophe risk visualization and assessment, and run-off management. These activities play a vital role in stabilizing and diversifying the Allianz Group, supporting our purpose to secure our customers’ future—today and tomorrow.

With more than 40 years of experience and offices across Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America, we collaborate closely with our partners to understand risk and deliver lasting value. As a global organization, we unite international experts in underwriting and risk management, combining global reach with local insight and multi-segment expertise.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture rooted in collaboration, trust, and integrity—an environment where everyone can thrive. Our flexible work arrangements, ongoing learning opportunities, and supportive leadership empower our employees to grow and help shape the future of reinsurance.

This role is within the Technical Underwriting Center of Allianz Re, which will create a broad and challenging range of responsibilities. The Technical Underwriting Center ensures an aligned technical support to the transactional underwriting units of Allianz Re both in Group and Third Party Business and at the same time hosts the Allianz Group Center of Competence Reinsurance.

Future challenges will include the balance between UW technical excellence and business opportunities and the maintenance of sustainable underwriting expertise by a team of highly qualified experts

The role will report to the Head of UW Governance and Technical Underwriting Center in Allianz Re CUO

Key responsibilities

• Develops and maintains market and client overviews with a strong Casualty focus, including Financial Lines
• Ensures close cooperation and consistent exchange with the relevant LoBs at Allianz Commercial
• Develops in-depths expertise and exploration of Casualty specific trends and developments
• Conducts Know How transfer including trainings / seminars / workshops
• Leads and/or contributes to Reinsurance Governance Assessments at AZ OE a as a part of the Functional Monitoring of the Group
• Leads and/or contributes to Underwriting File Reviews at AZ Re risk carriers
• Supports Global P&C Academy regarding Casualty and Reinsurance related topics
• Evaluates referrals for critical technical assessments as per Allianz Re Underwriting Guidelines and communicates and explains outcome
• Manages referrals under Group corporate rules on behalf of AZ RE (e.g. ASU, AZ FR for P&C Com, AZ FR for P&C Inward RI)
• Connects trends and developments to UW technical Frames and Guidelines and to risk management KPIs (e.g. accumulation or hard limits)
• Drives defined topics and projects with delegated responsibility
• Analyses multifaceted UW technical topics in order to develop solutions /options to contribute to the Group strategy in Casualty
• Represents AZ Re and AZ Group in front of internal and external stakeholders (incl. senior management) and manages proactive and transparent communication
• Supports AZ RE UW Governance Function regarding Casualty and Reinsurance related topics
• Provides senior consultancy on demand to the transactional CUO, CMO and CGRO areas
• Implement Data and AI in daily business

Qualification

• Academic background (Master/University Diploma or Qualification equivalent) recommended
• Legal background a plus
• Additional Advanced Professional Qualifications
• Proven command of English Language (verbal and written), additional language preferred

Experience & Key skills

Technical Skills

• Excellent understanding of reinsurance practice and techniques
• Excellent understanding and interpreting of insurance and reinsurance contract wordings
• Excellent understanding of coverage issues

General Skills

• Ability to cooperate with and build interfaces to senior management
• Ability to cooperate with and build interfaces across functions
• Project management skills
• Analytic and problem solving skills
• Ability to present professionally technical topics adequate to audience
• Entrepreneurial mindset and result orientation

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of proven experience in different Casualty lines: i.e. public and product liability; recall; environmental liability; professional indemnity, both insurance and reinsurance
• Experience of working in an international environment
• Experience in preparation of complex executive decisions
• Experience in portfolio, underwriting file and / or governance reviews

109321 | Underwriting | Management | | Allianz Reinsurance | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. And the foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and nurtures a culture grounded in integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

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