Join a high performing Legal & Compliance team at the heart of SCOR's P&C Business Unit on a 12 month fixed term contract position.
In this pivotal role, you'll provide expert legal and contract support across Treaty, Alternative Solutions and Single Risk underwriting, shaping commercially sound solutions that enable business growth while protecting the organisation. You will be involved in complex negotiations, product development, support sanctions compliance, and contribute to the build out of innovative wording tools used across EMEA.
This is a role for a sharp legal mind with strong (re)insurance experience, outstanding communication skills, and the confidence to operate autonomously with senior stakeholders. If you're a pragmatic problem solver with deep P&C expertise, outstanding contract wordings experience and a passion for partnering with the business then this could be the right next move for you. Candidates who do not have legal qualifications will also be considered.
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk", SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
Responsibilities
Negotiation
* Participate in negotiations of complex legal issues with external business partners and provide practical and pragmatic advice and support to the P&C business community on the negotiation of commercial terms.
Product Development
* Provide legal support for product development and the entry into any new lines of business, notably by providing contractual support to P&C treaty and specialty underwriters (e.g., policy/contract wordings, program agreements/business, third‑party administrator agreements, non‑disclosure agreements, etc.). Accountable for legal aspects of product development and market entry (working with the regulatory team as required).
Training
* Develop and lead training to the underwriter community.
Lex II & Contract Wording
* Provide the required legal support and expertise to support the development and roll‑out of the P&C sections of SCOR's contract wording tool, in coordination with P&C leadership and the P&C Legal community.
* Monitor, identify, understand, analyze, and proactively develop P&C's contract wording responses to emerging (re)insurance issues and trends, requiring an awareness and understanding of global developments and trends.
Regulatory & Best Practice
* Overcome legal and regulatory challenges by developing viable solutions to legal and regulatory "road blocks" to facilitate the P&C business unit's delivery on its business plans and targets.
* Identify required protocols and guidelines and develop (and where required support the development of) protocols and guidelines to be embedded into the P&C business unit to ensure institutional best practices.
* Handle phase 2 sanctions clearance referrals for complex sanctions and compliance issues. Ensure compliance with applicable sanctions and regulations.
Qualifications & Experience
We are ideally looking for candidates who have several years experience with the following expertise and skills:
* Reinsurance and Legal Knowledge: Extensive recent (re)insurance contract wording and legal support experience and superior technical skills are required.
* Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills, the ability to determine how and when to develop/sustain a message and/or an idea and the ability to deploy the right tools to present information.
* Business Acumen and Accountability: A deep understanding of P&C business drivers and the ability to identify and raise critical issues/points when needed; a willingness to "own" and to swiftly correct decisions; and, accepting and actioning responsibility regarding cost management.
* Advanced Problem‑Solving: Exhibit advanced problem‑solving capabilities by handling highly complex and critical legal issues with significant impact on the P&C Business Unit – involving providing and implementing innovative and effective solutions after appropriate approvals to mitigate risks, support business growth, and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
* Work Autonomy: Ability to operate autonomously, with guidance from the Chief Legal Counsel and team peers. A proven self‑starter who takes initiative and can act independently, making own decisions while keeping relevant stakeholders advised and involved and operating within internal governance requirements and guidelines.
* Commercial Acumen and Risk Mitigation: The role holder will be commercial and pragmatic and will understand the impact of market conditions on treaty and direct (specialty) insurance activities, procedures and wordings, while being able to clearly and succinctly articulate issues to the underwriting community (and management), to evaluate the risks associated with the (re)insurance activities and to develop commercial risk mitigation options, while ensuring all operations are compliant with applicable regulatory requirements.
* Stakeholder Management: Demonstrate the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
* Enthusiasm: The role holder will be enthusiastic about supporting the activities of the P&C Business Unit globally and across all business activities; working directly with the business and driving legal issues to completion; and providing general support across all areas of the Legal and Compliance functions for P&C as time and experience permits.
* Collaboration and Living the SCOR Values: Both the P&C business and Legal teams are small, such that collegiality, efficiency, proactivity and curiosity as well as living the SCOR values are key to the role holder's success.
Required Education
* Strong academic record. A law degree / undergraduate degree with a law conversion qualification / equivalent.
* Licensed to practice law in an EMEA jurisdiction and in good standing / the ability to immediately reactivate membership.
Note: non‑lawyers will be considered too, provided they demonstrate strong expertise delivering comprehensive, reasoned and commercially viable contract wording support.
If this sounds like the opportunity you are looking for then please do not hesitate to reach out and submit your applications.
Desired Skills and Experience
* Insurance
* Reinsurance
* Legal Counsel
* Wordings
* Contracts
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