Associate, Strategic Engagement

Aon; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Aon is seeking an Associate for its Strategic Engagement team in London. This role centers on building relationships with clients to ensure the success of their strategic objectives. Candidates should have a background in commercial insurance, strong relationship management skills, and a degree. Aon promotes a diverse workplace and offers flexible working conditions.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Global Wellbeing Days

Flexible working solutions

Networking opportunities

Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial background with experience working as an associate.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships internally and externally.
• High attention to detail and ability to interpret data for insights.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining fluency in the company's strategy and products.
• Engaging with clients to ensure success of their strategic objectives.
• Participating in projects and managing account-related tasks.

Skills

Relationship management

Negotiation

Persuasion

Analytical capability

Research skills

Education

Degree level education

Job description

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Aon is recruiting for an Associate to join Aon's Strategic engagement team in Inpoint (London, UK). This role can either be a hybrid or office based role.

This is a relationship focused role where you will have responsibility for partnering with Aon clients to develop relationships and ensuring success of their strategic objectives. This role will suit someone who is relationship focused with a background in the commercial insurance industry.

When you join Aon you are joining a culture of collaboration with significant networking opportunities both internally and externally through different routes such as our Employee Resource Groups which provide access to leaders, relevant volunteer and mentoring opportunities.

Aon is in the business of better decisions

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

• Developing and maintaining a fluency in the company's and insurers strategy, products, leadership and operations to enrich client outcomes
• Contributing to initiatives across the wider firm
• Working with the team on ensuing account management tasks including requests and gathering of information from carriers and colleagues, participating on projects, liaising between internal professionals and organising meeting logistics to ensure customer satisfaction
• Report to senior colleagues on relationship satisfaction to ensure a mutual understanding both internally and externally.
• Working as part of a team that delivers discrete projects for insurers and reinsurers on wide ranging strategic questions
• Undertaking market research, financial and data analysis that informs recommendations
• Supporting the preparation and facilitation of interviews with clients and Aon colleagues
• Engaging and contributing to the production of reports and other client deliverables

How is this opportunity different

Hardworking and inspiring individuals join Aon Inpoint, the management consulting and advisory arm of Aon from a variety of backgrounds because they excited by the opportunity to work with some of the most influential executives in the Insurance industry across a broad range of business challenges. You will be involved in shaping market entry options, international growth planning, distribution strategy and operational improvement initiatives across Property & Casualty Insurance, Reinsurance, Health & Benefits and Life business. This is a high-profile strategic engagement role, and one where the role holder would be expected to establish themselves as a trusted advisor to c-level stakeholders within Insurers across the UK and Europe, working in partnership with leaders across our organisation.

About you

• You like working in a fun environment with smart and ambitious people
• You are entrepreneurial and have experience in the insurance industry, or business development roles within a financial services or
• You are educated to a degree level or with an entrepreneurial background with experience working as an associate
• You have proven relationship management skills and evidence of building trusted relationships both internally and externally
• People skills, persuasion, negotiation, diplomacy, able to work within mixed and virtual teams, able to forge links and build networks with different Aon teams
• You have excellent research and presentation skills with the ability to influence decisions at all levels
• You are comfortable using sales methodologies to open new opportunities i.e. the Challenger Sales Model
• You have analytical capability – with focus and high attention to detail comfortable to undertake or instruct the organisation, analysis and interpretation of structured and unstructured data and information to be used for decision-making
• You have the ability to interpret data, seeking trends and translating this into valued insights for the business and our clients.
• You have a consistent record of delivering results with the ability to follow through on actions and track them to closure
• You are self-reliant and a self-starter who thinks around problems, creatively and resourcefully, to open new opportunities prioritise and work under pressure

About Aon

Aon is in the business of better decisions

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, with 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries. We use proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

As an organisation, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!