Global Head Digital & Technology Officer, P&C Re
Swiss Re
About the Role
The Global Head Digital & Technology Officer, P&C Re is accountable for the end-to-end Digital & Technology agenda supporting our global Property & Casualty Reinsurance business.
As a member of the senior Digital & Technology leadership team and a strategic partner to the P&C Re Executive Leadership Team, this role shapes how technology enables the business to grow, operate efficiently, manage risk and respond to an evolving reinsurance landscape.
The role combines technology strategy, business transformation and large-scale operational leadership. It requires an executive who can translate business strategy into a clear technology agenda, lead a significant global technology organization and portfolio, and determine where modernization and innovation will deliver meaningful commercial value.
The successful candidate will bring deep experience operating at scale within complex, highly regulated financial services environments, together with the leadership capability to drive transformation across businesses, functions and geographies.
Key Responsibilities
Set the Digital & Technology Strategy
- Own the global Digital & Technology strategy for P&C Re, ensuring technology priorities, investment and capabilities are closely aligned with business strategy and the broader Group technology agenda.
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to P&C Re leadership, bringing a technology perspective to business strategy, growth, operational effectiveness and transformation.
- Translate business priorities into a pragmatic, multi-year technology roadmap with clear outcomes, investment priorities and accountability.
- Represent P&C Re within enterprise technology decision-making, ensuring opportunities for shared platforms, capabilities and investments are fully leveraged.
- Maintain a forward-looking perspective on technology and industry developments, identifying where emerging capabilities can create meaningful competitive or operational advantage.
- Lead the modernization and simplification of the P&C Re technology landscape, balancing transformation ambition with commercial value, operational stability and business continuity.
- Strengthen modern engineering, architecture and delivery practices to improve speed, resilience, quality and predictability.
- Drive transformation of technology operating models, including organizational structures, location strategy, sourcing and strategic technology partnerships.
- Champion the responsible adoption of data, analytics, automation and AI, including Generative AI, to enhance productivity, decision-making and business outcomes.
- Build an environment where innovation is encouraged while investment remains focused on opportunities with clear strategic or commercial value.
- Partner across Digital & Technology to leverage enterprise capabilities while ensuring solutions meet the specific needs of the P&C Re business.
- Hold end-to-end accountability for a significant global technology organization, application landscape and investment portfolio supporting the P&C Re business.
- Ensure technology services and platforms are resilient, secure, scalable and capable of supporting the evolving needs of the business.
- Optimize technology investment, capacity and resources across strategic transformation and business-as-usual priorities.
- Drive disciplined portfolio management and governance, providing transparency around investment, delivery, performance, risk and value realization.
- Identify opportunities to simplify the technology landscape, consolidate capabilities and improve cost efficiency without compromising business delivery.
- Ensure technology risk, cyber security, operational resilience and regulatory requirements are embedded within technology strategy and execution.
- Engage confidently with Risk, Compliance, Audit and regulatory stakeholders, maintaining a strong culture of accountability and control.
- Lead and develop a large, globally distributed technology organization, creating clarity of purpose, accountability and decision rights across teams and geographies.
- Build a strong senior leadership team with the capability to manage complex portfolios, lead transformation and partner effectively with the business.
- Create an open and transparent leadership culture characterized by candid dialogue, constructive challenge and clear accountability.
- Invest in leadership development, succession and capability building, empowering leaders while holding them accountable for outcomes.
- Lead teams successfully through significant organizational and technology change, maintaining engagement, stability and delivery performance.
- Build effective partnerships across business, technology and corporate functions, b j4id10410392a j4it0939a j4iy26a
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