Senior R&D Actuary — Swiss Re

Locations: Alpharetta, GA, US | Kansas City, MO, US | Chicago, IL, US | Windsor, CT, US | Fort Wayne, IN, US Do you have a passion for transforming complex data into actionable insights? Join our team where your actuarial expertise will directly impact business decisions across North America. This role offers you the opportunity to be at the intersection of traditional actuarial science and cutting-edge analytical techniques, helping shape the future of life insurance risk assessment. About the Role As a Senior Research & Development (R&D) Actuary, you'll be instrumental in developing and maintaining sophisticated mortality and lapse assumptions that drive our business decisions. You'll leverage your analytical prowess to translate experience data into valuable insights that inform product development, pricing strategies, and portfolio management across both Canadian and US markets. Key Responsibilities • Lead experience analysis initiatives to monitor population and insured life trends across direct insurance and reinsurance portfolios • Develop key assumptions for mortality and lapse rates used in new business costing, in-force management opportunities, and business valuation • Analyze complex data sets to identify underlying drivers of mortality and lapse, including policyholder behavior, product characteristics, and underwriting methods • Create innovative tools and analytics to enhance monitoring methods and improve assumption accuracy • Stay current with industry research and publications to continuously refine our methodologies • Collaborate cross-functionally with US market units, Risk Management, In-force Optimization, and Portfolio Steering & Monitoring teams • Present findings internally to educate colleagues and externally to clients, potentially at industry events and special client meetings • Document thoroughly all assumption development processes in compliance with corporate governance standards • Ensure alignment between developed assumptions and th