Legal Contract Counsel - Reinsurance

You are a fully qualified lawyer and passionate about launching your legal career in the exciting world of reinsurance? Join our dynamic team and deepen your experience in contract drafting, negotiation, and legal advisory work while making a meaningful contribution to the business.

About the Role

Based in Paris, you'll work with our international team to handle reinsurance business across the EMEA region. You'll play a key role in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating reinsurance contract wordings, providing legal advice on complex matters, and working closely with clients to bring reinsurance agreements to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Build legal expertise in the creation of reinsurance contracts with guidance from senior colleagues
• Review and analyse reinsurance contracts and related documents to ensure alignment with business intent and corporate requirements
• Learn compliance frameworks to align contracts with applicable laws, regulations, and internal requirements
• Support development of corporate policies on contract-related matters
• Participate in negotiations alongside experienced team members, gaining exposure to discussions with internal partners, external clients, and brokers
• Contribute to innovation by supporting AI-driven enhancements of contract management IT infrastructure and tools
• Create training materials and support with training delivery
• Apply governance standards to contract wordings and processes

About the Team

Our international team specialises in supporting reinsurance business throughout the EMEA region. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do—we work together to draft, review, and negotiate reinsurance contract wordings that enable strong client relationships and sustainable business outcomes. We pride ourselves on our legal expertise, business acumen, and ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical solutions that drive our business forward.

About You

You are passionate about legal matters and able to translate complex legal language into clear, precise, and accessible business context. As a team player at the beginning of your career, you bring enthusiasm for learning and growing within the reinsurance sector. You have a collaborative mindset, strong attention to detail, and solid analytical skills. Your communication abilities enable you to work effectively with colleagues and progressively build confidence in client interactions. You're eager to learn, adaptable, and take ownership of your development.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• University degree in law (additional legal qualifications are a plus)
• Up to 2 years experiences with basic understanding of insurance or reinsurance concepts (or willingness to learn)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in English and French (verbal and written)
• Agile, pragmatic and can-do attitude

These are additional nice to haves:

• Familiarity with contract review or drafting
• Interest in digital tools and data analytics
• Additional European language skills
• Previous knowledge about P&C products and local re/insurance markets

The estimated base salary range in France for this position is from EUR 51.000 to EUR 77,000.

The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.

At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days