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Location:Madrid, M, ES

Are you experienced in managing global financial institution relationships, skilled in negotiation and partnership development, and passionate about building high performing international networks? This might be your next challenge.

About the Role

As the Network Partner Manager, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and strengthening relationships with our international network partners, including banks and insurance companies across all regions (APAC, EMEA, and the Americas). You will play a pivotal role in shaping our global partner ecosystem, ensuring that Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' International Surety operations rely on highquality, reliable, and scalable partner capabilities.quality, reliable, and scalable partner capabilities.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Managing and strengthening global partner relationships, acting as the primary senior point of contact for banks and insurance companies, ensuring reliable capacity, seamless service, and long term collaboration.term collaboration.
• Expanding the international partner network by identifying new opportunities, assessing potential providers, supporting due diligence processes, and onboarding new partners to enhance our global capabilities.diligence processes, and onboarding new partners to enhance our global capabilities.
• Streamlining and standardizing processes with partners, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and alignment with Swiss Re's International Surety standards, risk framework, and regional regulatory environments.
• Ensuring effective coordination with partners, timely execution of international surety transactions, and high service delivery standards.
• Collaborating closely with internal stakeholders across regions, including Surety Underwriting, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Finance, to ensure alignment and ongoing performance monitoring of partners.
• Leading performance reviews of existing network partners, including service quality assessments, KPI monitoring, issue resolution, and implementation of improvement measures.
• Providing expert advisory to internal teams, clients, brokers, and partners on international surety processes, regulatory considerations, and best practices.

About the Team

International Surety Desk is an emerging team, closely collaborating with the global Surety business teams. With passion, as well as our service and customer orientation, we strive for high customer satisfaction and help the business to achieve its profitable growth aspiration. Our team is spread across many locations in Europe, Asia Pacific, as well as North and Latin America.

As part of the International Surety transformation project, we are implementing a new International Surety Model with new roles and responsibilities, standardizing and improving processes. We are also extending our international surety partner network.

About You

• You are a relationship driven professional with a strong background in financial institutions, trade finance, banking, or insurance. You are comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders, negotiating agreements, and driving performance across a global network of partners.driven professional with a strong background in financial institutions, trade finance, banking, or insurance. You are comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders, negotiating agreements, and driving performance across a global network of partners.
• You are proactive, structured, and able to balance strategic responsibilities with hands on operational oversight. You take ownership, bring clarity, and foster a collaborative team culture. You excel at navigating ambiguity, improving processes, and building strong partnerships internally and externally.on operational oversight. You take ownership, bring clarity, and foster a collaborative team culture. You excel at navigating ambiguity, improving processes, and building strong partnerships internally and externally.

Key attributes:

• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to build trust based relationships with banks, insurers, and internal teams.based relationships with banks, insurers, and internal teams.
• Strategic mindset combined with operational discipline.
• Strong negotiation and influencing capabilities.
• Ability to prioritize competing requests and drive improvements across a complex, international ecosystem.

Essential Skills

• Education: Completed commercial education, preferably banking specialist, or bachelor's degree in economics, finance, business administration, or law; or equivalent job experience.
• Professional Experience:
• +10 years of experience working with financial institutions, preferably in surety, trade finance, credit insurance, or international banking.
• Proven experience managing institutional relationships or partnerships.
• Solid understanding of crossborder guarantees, surety operations, or related risk transfer processes.border guarantees, surety operations, or related risktransfer processes.
• Leadership: Experience leading teams or overseeing operational functions is a strong advantage.
• Linguistics: Proficiency in the English language is a must. Knowledge of German is a key differentiator. Additional languages of relevant markets (especially Spanish and French) are a plus.
• Ability to make market presentations and good power point skills.

Nice to Have

• +10 years of experience in banking, insurance, or trade finance, ideally in a partner management, correspondence banking, or surety related role.related role.
• Experience negotiating or reviewing fronting agreements or collaboration frameworks.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as URDG758, ICISA forms, and other international rules.
• Understanding of AML, sanctions, and compliance processes.
• Experience managing performance KPIs for financial institution partners.

For Spain, the base salary range for this position is between EUR 45,000 and EUR 75,000 (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
• the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience. In situations where you do not meet all the requirements or you significantly exceed these, the offered salary may be below or above the advertised range.

In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for additional rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based annual bonus.

Take the next step in your career and do not hesitate to apply! We are looking forward to reviewing your application.

As this role requires regular communication in English, please make sure to submit your application and CV in English language.

About Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Swiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. We anticipate and manage risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions is the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. We offer innovative insurance solutions to large and midsized multinational corporations from our approximately 50 locations worldwide. We help clients mitigate their risk exposure, whilst our industry-leading claims service provides them with additional peace of mind.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions embraces a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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