About the Role
This senior, specialized position leads the editorial direction and complete publication lifecycle for the Swiss Re Institute’s world-class sigma and economic research portfolio. In this role, you will shape detailed, quantitative research and thought leadership publications that communicate actionable insights, add value for Swiss Re's clients and partners, and influence our global dialogue with public policymakers and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Editorial Leadership: Implement the editorial vision and standards for SRI’s sigma and other research publications, focusing on global themes such as insurance markets, international policy, technology/digitalization, and global financial markets. Shape narratives that translate complex quantitative analysis into clear, actionable insights.
- Global Coordination: Plan, scope, and deliver multi-author, cross-regional publications on time and to standard.
- End-to-End Publication Management: Drive the full lifecycle from scheduling timelines and allocating resources to supporting authors in creating the best outline and publication structure. Oversee line editing, governance approvals, design, proofreading, and coordinated release across channels, including social media activation.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate effectively with authors to resolve conflicting opinions and differences in viewpoint on the direction or detail of a publication. Propose solutions to restructure drafts or introduce new material.
- Derivative Assets & Messaging: Distill publications and their narratives into short "carve out" insight reports, slide decks, one-page digests for client engagement, and other summaries.
- Quantitative/Analytical Editing: Interrogate charts, tables, and models for clarity, consistency, and plausibility; ensure accurate description of methods, assumptions, and limitations; align key messages with the underlying analysis.
- Editorial Calendar & Pipeline: Co-own the forward publishing calendar, identifying ideas and opportunities for new thought leadership publications. Communicate and align calendars with teams across the wider company.
- Quality Assurance and Training: Maintain and evolve editorial guidelines, ensuring consistency of voice and accessibility without loss of analytical rigor. Mentor junior editors and train authors on writing and storytelling skills.
About You – Qualifications & Experience
- Education: Advanced degree in economics, finance, or international affairs with a strong economics/policy focus (or equivalent). A Bachelor degree in an economics-related field is desirable, and an ESG/sustainability credential is a plus.
- Communication: Excellent native command of written and spoken English; additional languages (e.g., German, French, Spanish) are beneficial. Skilled in executive briefings, speeches, and key-message development; a strong cross-cultural communicator.
- Experience: 7–10 years in research publishing or editorial leadership within economics, finance, or public policy fields, ideally with exposure to insurance/reinsurance, digitalization, or financial markets.
- Domain Knowledge: Deep familiarity with financial markets and sustainable finance (e.g., transition financing and capital-markets linkages), with experience engaging banks, insurers, and multilateral development institutions.
- Editorial Excellence: Proven ability in developmental and line-editing of complex analytical work; adept at translating technical and policy content into clear, decision-relevant narratives for senior stakeholders.
- Stakeholder & Convening Experience: Effective collaboration with senior public-private stakeholders; adept at shaping outputs and messages for major global forums.
- Global Execution: Demonstrated success coordinating multi-author, cross-regional publications and managing communities of senior leaders across time zones.
- Governance & Risk: Experienced in formal editorial governance, including brand/style, legal & compliance, and reputational risk processes within international organizations.
- Tools & Ways of Working: Proficient in MS Office and collaborative production workflows; familiar with data-visualization best practices and digital publishing; organized, deadline-driven, and comfortable managing parallel projects.
Our Working Environment
- Fast-paced and deadline-driven; you are resilient, organized, and able to recalibrate quickly across parallel projects.
- Occasional overtime may be required around major publication releases (compensated in kind).
- Positive, pragmatic "can do" mindset; able to give and receive constructive feedback.
Apply online using the form below. Please note, only applications matching the job profile will be considered.