Broking Placement Manager

Gallagher; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm in Glasgow is seeking a Broking Placement Manager to implement the placement strategy for new and existing business. This role involves building strong relationships with underwriters and negotiating favorable terms. Suitable candidates will have experience in property, liability, and fleet insurance, with strong negotiation and relationship management skills. The position offers a competitive salary along with various benefits including holidays, pension schemes, and health insurance.

Benefits

25+ days holiday

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance of up to 10x salary

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Placement Broker is desirable.
• Experience handling Property, Liability, and Fleet insurance packages.
• Highly accurate with a strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Advise and coordinate broking strategy with account handlers and executives.
• Lead negotiations with insurers to secure favorable placement solutions.
• Establish and cultivate insurer relationships within the region.

Skills

Property insurance

Liability insurance

Fleet insurance

Negotiation

Attention to detail

Relationship management

Risk assessment

Communication

Education

Chartered Insurance Institute Qualifications: Cert CII/Dip CII

GCSE standard or equivalent

Tools

Acturis

Job description

Introduction

At Gallagher, we help clients face risk with confidence because we believe that when businesses are protected, they’re free to grow, lead, and innovate. You’ll be backed by our digital ecosystem: a client-centric suite of consulting tools making it easier for you to meet your clients where they want to be met. Advanced data and analytics providing a comprehensive overview of the risk landscape is at your fingertips. Here, you’re not just improving clients' risk profiles, you’re building trust. You’ll find a culture grounded in teamwork, guided by integrity, and fueled by a shared commitment to do the right thing. We value curiosity, celebrate new ideas, and empower you to take ownership of your career while making a meaningful impact for the businesses we serve. If you’re ready to bring your unique perspective to a place where your work truly matters; think of Gallagher.

Overview

Gallagher is currently recruiting for a Broking Placement Manager to join our commercial division in Glasgow.

In this role, you will be responsible for implementing Gallagher's placement strategy for new and existing business. Your main focus will be on building strong relationships with underwriters and carriers in the market, in order to negotiate the most favourable terms.

As part of our commercial team, you will play a crucial role in supporting the business and ensuring excellent market relationships are established and maintained.

How you'll make an impact

• As Broker Placement Manager, you will help advise and coordinate broking strategy with account handlers and account executives, as well as leading negotiations with insurers to secure placement solutions which enable us to both win and retain clients.
• Work with our new business producers to best position our prospective opportunities with insurers, improving our success rate by enhancing our market position tactically.
• Working with and supporting the Broking Director. Establishing and cultivating insurer relationships within the region and evaluating their performance and service delivery.
• Engage with insurers to help manage identified pipeline opportunities for them.
• Build a network of internal and external contacts through effective relationship management.
• Act as a conduit for feedback to furnish your division with relevant market insight and help manage insurer service issues where necessary.
• Ability to travel within region to increase the visibility of the placement team.

About You

• Previous experience as a Placement Broker is desirable.
• Experienced in Property, Liability and Fleet insurance packages.
• Happy to consider a new business focused Account handler/Broker/Underwriter with relevant experience.
• Holding or working towards one of the Chartered Insurance Institute Qualifications: Cert CII/Dip CII is desirable as is being educated to GCSE standard or equivalent.
• Worked to targets within a regulated, measurable framework and achieved SLA’s.
• Risk aware in handling customer information. Able to recognise potential risk and seek advice when required.
• Highly accurate with a strong attention to detail.
• Proficient in Acturis.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back‑up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long‑term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [e-mail]. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non‑conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.