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Head of Product Delivery - Reinsurance

SCOR Zurich, Switzerland
Posted 2 days ago Permanent Competitive

Head of Product Delivery - Reinsurance

SCOR Zurich, Switzerland
Head of Product Delivery - Reinsurance
Job Description

You will be defining product vision and roadmap, translating strategic objectives into business outcomes alongside your business counterpart. As well as leading the end-to-end delivery of integrated technology solutions that create measurable value for the business

The Head of Product Delivery ensures that business priorities are translated into technically sound outcomes and delivery, that architecture and design decisions align with strategic goals, cross-squad dependencies are actively managed, and that the final outcome is not a collection of disconnected components but one integrated product.

You will work closely with the business, transformation team, engineering leads, architects, UI/UX, data and AI teams, and squad-level tech leads. Your role is to provide the product leadership, strategic direction, delivery structure and cross-functional coordination needed to turn complex business objectives into integrated, scalable products that deliver meaningful value.

The challenge in this product area is not simply building features. It is coordinating delivery across multiple applications, services, data flows, and squads while preserving product coherence, business relevance, technical feasibility, and architectural integrity.

This role is critical because the products depend on strong cross-team orchestration, realistic design choices, technical dependency management, and delivery discipline across a complex landscape. The Head of Product Delivery ensures that data and technology landscape in one integrated product that provides real value to the business.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap in partnership with business leadership, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes.
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of the product portfolio, ensuring successful execution across multiple teams and workstreams.
  • Translate business priorities into clear product plans, delivery objectives, and implementation roadmaps.
  • Ensure all initiatives and capabilities are delivered as one integrated product experience rather than a collection of standalone solutions.
  • Establish delivery governance, planning structures, and execution disciplines that support predictable and high-quality outcomes.
  • Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and priorities to ensure smooth and coordinated delivery.
  • Partner closely with business, transformation, engineering, architecture, data, AI, and design teams to align objectives and execution.
  • Drive decision-making and resolve delivery challenges, ensuring progress against agreed objectives and timelines.
  • Balance business value, customer needs, delivery feasibility, and long-term sustainability in product decisions.
  • Communicate product direction, progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders.
  • Foster collaboration and alignment across squads, ensuring a common vision and consistent delivery approach.
  • Promote continuous improvement in product management, delivery practices, and ways of working.
  • Ensure delivered solutions generate measurable business value and support operational excellence.
  • Provide leadership, coaching, and line management for the Product team, including objective setting, performance development, talent management, and team capability building.
  • Build and maintain a high-performing product organization with a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Insurance, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience in product management, product delivery, technology delivery, or transformation leadership roles.
  • Proven experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to define product strategies and translate business objectives into successful delivery outcomes.
  • Management experience and building high-performing product organizations.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior business and technology leaders.
  • Experience operating in large, complex organizations with multiple delivery teams and dependencies.
  • Knowledge of Agile product development and modern product operating models.
  • Insurance, reinsurance, financial services, or other complex regulated industry experience preferred.

About Us

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.
Job ID  300000246875648
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