Head of Biometric Analysis and Insights

**Company**
Munich Re
**Location**
Munich, Germany

The team is part of Risk Intelligence and Knowledge Systems unit of Munich Re Life & Health division, which serves as a regional analytics centre (RAC) for Europe, UK and Latin Americas. The department is responsible for data and AI strategy development and execution, biometrics insights and knowledge modelling for more than 50 markets, for 500+ cedents, and 1,500+ active reinsurance contracts. We strategically invest in scalable, easy-to-use data and knowledge technologies to create and operationalize high quality products and services using structured and unstructured data, serving both internal and external clients. We believe that better data and advanced analytics can strengthen our reinsurance core and service business and will be the foundation for the business models of tomorrow.

Do you want to play a key role in shaping the future of the biometrics section within our department? Are you the next champion who changes the game for us?
We are looking for a highly motivated and ambitious individual to join our team as a Head of Biometric Analysis and Insights for LH1 MUC Hub - the hub is responsible for all Life and Health Reinsurance business in Continental Europe (w/o Iberia, Italy, Malta) and Israel. The position will report into Head of Department, Risk Intelligence and Knowledge Systems.
You will ensure high quality of data management, experience studies and biometrics portfolio analysis with the focus on traditional statistical methods, actuarial models, and biometrics insights. Furthermore, key focus on expansion and extension of our existing actuarial studies infrastructure landscape, and overall biometrics team leadership.
Biometrics being a fundamental piece of our business, this person will champion the topic with stakeholders in the MUC hub and ensure that business value add is in the forefront via current solution optimization and biometrics-driven new solutions offering.

Join our team of industry experts and contribute your actuarial and systems’ expertise to make a significant impact on the life and health reinsurance sector.

**Your Job**
- Developing and implementing the strategy and roadmap for biometrics transformation, including biometrics portfolio analysis 2.0
- Conceptualize and offer quantifiable business-value-first actuarial insights, including our data pooling strategy, to internal and external stakeholders along the whole (re)insurance value chain by using statistical methods
- Implement and augment operations, reusability, and automation of biometrics and actuarial analysis processes
- Plan, coordinate and lead experience studies in the life and health reinsurance sector. This includes collecting, cleaning, and analysing data related to disability, mortality, among other lines of business. Identify new trends, and emerging risks to support pricing, reserving, and underwriting decisions.
- Support the regional head of risk intelligence and knowledge systems with data integration projects, acting as a sparring partner, analysing, structuring and providing portfolio data sent by cedents (e.g. BPA in Germany) for horizontal data integration, among others.
- Participate and cooperate in projects driving evolution of our broader infrastructure, being single point of contact for biometric related requirements and associated local implementation.
- Provide leadership to a team of actuarial experts. Organize operative tasks, planning resources, and providing guidance to the team regarding overarching biometrics topics as well as innovation and marketing activities
- Cooperate and support regional departments projects with biometric expertise delivery, to capture biometrics knowledge in graphs, and develop supporting pipelines to enable broader graph usage (and underlying biometrics data) as a transparent self-service knowledge source. Sustain and evolve the developed domain ontologies.
- Turn insights into quantifiable value generation through identifying opportunities for improving existing reinsurance solutions and developing new products, and acting as an interface towards internal and external stakeholders
- Provide training and support to employees on actuarial progress and best practices.
- Work cross-functionally across the MUC Hub, and with our clients to identify relevant biometric analysis requirements and to define and execute on customer specific goals for risk understanding for various lines of business
- Establish and maintain robust compliance and governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure accuracy, security, and compliance with industry regulations

**Your Profile**
- Advanced university degree with actuarial qualification
- Knowledge of (re)-insurance business, together with team leadership and management experience
- Several years of experience in an actuary role with focus on experience studies within Life and Health reinsurance, including actuarial concepts, risk assessment, and pricing methodol