Global Head of Group Ceded Reinsurance (m/f/d)

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.

Allianz Re acts as Allianz Group's Internal Reinsurance Vehicle. Ceded Reinsurance is a powerful tool to steer the magnitude and composition of our global portfolio. The Group Ceded Reinsurance Team within Allianz Re aligns the Group's risk appetite, defines and implements the Group reinsurance strategy. We use reinsurance to manage exposures within the Group risk appetite and optimize the risk reward relationship. 

You will lead the Group Ceded Reinsurance team and will drive the evolution of Allianz Group’s outgoing reinsurance landscape in order to enable Allianz Re to implement the reinsurance strategy of Allianz Group. You will report to the Chief Group Reinsurance Officer. 

Key responsibilities

-You will manage a team of highly motivated and experienced reinsurance experts.
- You will support the Chief Group Reinsurance Officer in developing and implementing a Group-wide aligned external reinsurance strategy.
- You will establish and maintain a close link to your counterparts at Allianz Commercial as well as Allianz Trade.
- You will be steering the development and structuring of Allianz Group's reinsurance protections in order to match with the risk appetite. 
- You will be steering the review and enhancement of reinsurance protections in order to match with the group's risk appetite
or to adjust to market best practice.
- You will build, manage and foster relationships to reinsurers, investors and reinsurance brokers and act as "the face"
of Allianz Re to the external markets.
- You will manage and enhance relationships to other units within Allianz Group (underwriting and reinsurance management at operating entity level, market management and AZ SE Group Centers).
- You will negotiate prices and terms and conditions with reinsurers and global brokers.
- You will prepare the Group Ceded Reinsurance Committee including pre-alignment with all stakeholders.
- You will co-ordinate and host the annual meetings with the global reinsurance brokers of Allianz.
- You will be briefing Allianz SE Board members as well as Allianz Re Functional Board members in advance of high level meetings with top executives of Allianz' reinsurance partners.
- You will be resolving conflicts, escalating where necessary and managing resistance.

Qualification

- University degree in business administration, economics or similar.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience in reinsurance underwriting, client management and/or broking, ideally at least 5 years experience in outgoing reinsurance.
- Ideally experience in managing a team of reinsurance experts.
- English fluency; good knowledge of German and additional languages are a plus

Experience & Key skills

- Strong management skills and able to collaborate across a global organization, across functions and cultures.
- Enthusiastic, creative, curious to look for solutions and capable to take the lead when necessary. 
- In-depth experience in the re-/insurance industry domain.   
- Proficiency in reinsurance technique incl. in-depth knowledge of reinsurance wordings.
- Project management skills including change management.
- Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Strategic orientation and high level of analytical skills.
- Profound knowledge of cat models and ability to interprete and explain results.
- Consulting and diplomatic skills e.g. relationship management.
- Performance oriented, self-motivated individual with pro-active problem solving skills.
- Capability to interact with key decision makers, also on Executive Board level, and to influence them.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Experience with data analysis and AI tools is a plus

91779 | Reinsurance | 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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