Your Partner in Life & Annuities Insurance Talent
Navigating talent challenges in life & annuities
Securing the right life & annuities insurance talent is critical for maintaining financial stability and delivering competitive products. Access passive talent in a candidate-driven market by utilizing our strong network built through referrals, conferences, and many years of working in this highly specialized field.
Selby Jennings helps direct insurers, asset management firms, reinsurers and sidecar businesses hire professionals who can manage risk, support product development, and adapt as market conditions change. Our tailored range of permanent, multi-hire, and retained search solutions allows you to build and evolve teams in line with long-term growth plans, product innovation, and balance sheet priorities.
Roles we recruit for in life & annuities insurance
Our consultants specialize in specific disciplines within life & annuities, enabling us to support hiring across highly technical insurance models where precision and forward-thinking are critical.
Through long-standing relationships across the market, we partner with firms to secure professionals who bring expertise aligned to both technical requirements and business strategy.
We recruit life & annuities insurance professionals across core business functions, including:
- Actuarial
- Underwriting
- Product
- Investments and Asset-Liability Management (ALM)
- Data and Analytics
- Risk and Capital Management
- Accounting and Finance
- Technology
- Executive Leadership
- Direct Insurance Carriers
- Reinsurance Firms
- Actuarial Consulting Firms
- Management Consulting Firms
- Asset Management Firms
- Sidecar Businesses
- InsurTechs
We connect organizations to life & annuities actuarial talent across:
- Pricing & Product Development
- Valuation
- Modeling, (GGY Axis, ALFA, Prophet, Risk Agility, etc.)
- Reinsurance Pricing
- M&A and Capital Management
- ALM & Cash Flow Testing
Levels we support:
We support hiring from actuarial analyst to executive-level actuarial roles. Our placements range from actuarial students advancing through exams to achieve their designations, to FSAs and Chief Actuaries leading rotational programs and actuarial departments.
We support life & annuities underwriting hiring across:
- Individual Life Underwriting
- Group Life Underwriting
- High-Net-Worth Underwriting
- Financial Underwriting
- Automated and Digital Underwriting
- Underwriting Operations
Typical roles include:
- Life Underwriter
- Senior Life Underwriter
- Underwriting Manager
- Underwriting Director
- Chief Underwriter
We recruit life & annuities product development professionals who design solutions that meet evolving customer needs and regulatory expectations, working across:
- Product Development and Innovation
- Retirement and Pension Solutions
- Annuities and Structured Products
- Distribution Strategy
- Marketing and Campaign Strategy
Typical roles include:
- Head of Product
- Insurance & Annuities Product Director
- Product Marketing Lead
- Marketing Strategy & Distribution Lead
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