Head of Life, Japan

Head of Life – Tokyo, Japan
Reports to: CEO (Japan)
About the Company
Our client is one of the world’s leading reinsurance brokers, providing clients with cutting-edge solutions in risk transfer, capital management, and strategic advisory. In Japan, they are recognized as a market leader in life reinsurance, with particular expertise in asset-intensive transactions.
The Role
1. The primary role is to originate, structure, and execute asset-intensive reinsurance arrangements and others for Japanese clients – working closely with the APAC Life & Health team in Singapore and Global Life Practice Group by:
• Interacting regularly with clients in order to successfully originate and/or execute each transaction. The candidate must be a self-starter, and technically capable of doing the work required to originate and execute such transaction.
• Also working closely with the reinsurers to build and maintain working relationship regularly, and navigate through the tender etc process, negotiate the reinsurance terms and conditions during working on a deal.

Although this position is for asset-intensive reinsurance specialist, however, the underlying goals are:
• To grow our portfolio of life & health brokered reinsurance business in Japan.
• To ensure the bringing of international innovations into Japan for the benefit of clients.

2. The secondary role is to provide administration work for existing reinsurance contracts.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary: JPY 30M – 50M, plus performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive benefits package aligned with senior leadership roles.

Why Apply?

• Lead the premier Life reinsurance franchise in Japan.
• Work on landmark, high-visibility transactions.
• Shape growth across Asia-Pacific markets.
• Join a global platform while building the next chapter of Life reinsurance leadership.