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Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President Division: BPP-Swiss Re Institute (50001535) Department: BPPH-Group Economic Research & Strategy (51001374) Recruiter: Nisha Agarwal Hiring Manager: Li Xing Copy the below link to share this job posting with your coworkers: About the role The role of Economist, in Group Economic Research and Strategy is a fantastic opportunity for you to work on hands-on projects, and also support the thematic research, with a tangible business impact. Together with a high-caliber and motivated international team, you will actively contribute to the formulation of our global insurance market analysis and forecasts for the Group and support our business unit strategy and client outreach. The role is a unique, broad and exciting professional growth opportunity and an excellent steppingstone within the company with frequent exposure to senior management and other teams across the Group. As such, you will shape key strategic projects and drive Swiss Re\'s thought leadership, particularly around the topic of macroeconomics, and insurance. You should expect a dynamic environment and should be able to demonstrate flexibility, adaptability and autonomy in your daily work. Key tasks and responsibilities include: Analyse local, regional and global insurance market trends and provide related analysis and forecasts. Contribute to Swiss Re\'s thought-leadership topics and client outreach by writing a study on a major market or industry segment in publication (e.g. Swiss Re\'s sigma, Expertise Publications, Economic Insights, etc), Prepare high-quality and visually appealing presentations, and presenting findings to internal and external stakeholders (e.g. presenting a market outlook to clients, preparing briefing materials for senior executives, presenting research results at an industry conference, etc.) Manage research projects to completion with minimal supervision/guidance and have good interpersonal skills. Most activities involve collaboration across teams. Expected to generate a workflow of projects from Swiss Re\'s business units. This entails networking and communicating SRI\'s services to various company stakeholders. The projects may be related to quantifying and modelling the impact of economic risks (e.g. inflation, energy prices, health care reform). Strong data affinity and statistical analysis skills are essential, hands-on experience with a statistical software package and/or a programming language an advantage Support Group Chief Economist and Head of Insurance Market Analysis in various tasks (e.g. writing background notes, some administrative tasks, etc) About the team Group Economic Research and Strategy (GERS) is part of the Swiss Re Institute, and is responsible for analysing and forecasting the global macroeconomic and insurance market environment. GERS holds a crucial role in steering Swiss Re\'s capital allocation for both sides of the balance sheet. The team also drives thought leadership on topics of strategic importance for the Group and helps shaping the policy dialogue and outcome. GERS is responsible for Swiss Re\'s flagship sigma publication series. GERS is highly visible and interacts with a wide variety of key partners and decision makers across the organization and externally. We are a truly global team located in Zurich, New York, Hong Kong and Beijing and collaborate closely with all of Swiss Re\'s re/insurance business units and Group functions. Swiss Re embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We further collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing all of our employees with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where we work most effectively. About You Master\'s degree in economics with around 3-5 years of analytical work experience, with experience related to the re/insurance industry, being a strong plus, though not required (if working experience less than 3-5 years, position of junior economist would be considered). Experience in macroeconomic, insurance analysis and forecasting, including but not limited to topics like, climate change, emerging markets, behavioural economics, financial/company analysis, discrete choice analysis, applied econometrics, and so on. Independent and able to operate with minimal level of guidance, while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization, especially from different global locations. Team player, comfortable working with colleagues across all different levels, experience in training and mentoring new team members is also preferred Strong analytical skills and ability to think strategically and steer & deliver high quality deliverables. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English other languages a plus Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) is required Econometric and programming skills in one of the major statistical softwares/programming languages (R, Stata, Matlab, Python, EViews) is an advantage Internationally focused and highly motivated with a can-do attitude dedication to continuous learning and willingness to challenge and improve the status quo Very agile, open-minded and curious personality with ability to work under tight timelines Mature and proactive showing a high degree of own initiative Ability and enthusiasm to work in a global and multicultural environment Keywords: Reference Code: 123942

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