Business Development Manager

SCOR’s client relationships are one of the cornerstones of our service offering and the successful candidate will have a proven record of developing and maintaining excellent relationships and providing outstanding service. SCOR is undergoing a transformation and instilling a culture of genuine innovation using agile methodologies and increasing our technical excellence using all of the latest resources. We’re offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, passionate individual who can come with us on this journey and add to our continuous improvement in these areas. We are looking for someone with a passion for change and innovation. Experience in agile working, using data visualisation tools, data science tools and an ability to think creatively would be a definite advantage and excellent interpersonal, communication & negotiation skills are a must.

• Client Management

  • Tenders – lead the delivery of tenders to clients following agreed process & client needs

  • Business Implementation – implementation of new business for allocated clients according to agreed process and deadlines, ensuring a smooth operation of reinsurance relationships.

  • Assist in delivery of technical service to clients, such as experience analysis and optimisation.

• Preparation for actuarial presentations to clients & target clients

  • Ensure relevant content & material available for presentations.

• Support the delivery of superior customer service to SCORs client

• Co-ordination of delivery of excellent service to clients

• Management of client expectations

• Treaty Production

  • Management of version control for treaty production process and monitoring of internal sign-offs

  • Production of treaties for allocatedclients.

• Promoting the SCOR brand at Industry events

  • Involvement in industry bodies

  • Presentations at industry events – desirable, not essential

  • Hosting SCOR seminars and marketing events as part of the Marketing Team.

• Research

Production of agreed research material, particularly with regard to market developments or product initiatives.

Experience:

• Proven experience in theUK lifeinsurance / reinsurance market.

• Experience of the pricing and risk factors associated with the major individualprotection benefits available in the UK life insurance market.

• Knowledge of the different types of protection products available in the UK market.

• Knowledge of Data Science applications such as R, Python or Tableau.

• Experience of project management & in particular agile methodology(desirable)

• Direct office experience. (desirable)

Personal Competencies :

• Technical skills – technical skills in the pricing and construction of lifeinsurance products. Experience of using different data visualization tools would be an advantage.

• Problem solving – the abilityto work flexibly to devise practical & innovative solutions for the issues faced by SCORand its client companies.

• Interpersonal skills – theability to develop effective personal relationships with both working colleagues and clients.

• Project management – effective project management skills including time management, personnel management and dispute resolution skills.

• Negotiation Skills – theability to negotiate effectively on behalf of SCOR whendealing with

  clients or other third parties.

• Report writing – production of papers from conception to delivery

• Presentational skills – ability to present services or solutions internally or externally.

• Change management – strong appetite for driving change and continuously improving processes.

• Ability to work autonomously

• Team spirit
  

The following Strategic digital / technical competencies would be an advantage:

• Python coding - 1 (Novice)
• Agile methodology / SCRUM 1 (Novice)
• Data Science - 1 (Novice)

Required Education

Essential:

• Nearly / Newly Qualified Actuary

• Good working knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel packages.