Business Analyst - Digital Placement

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global insurance broker is seeking a Business Analyst to join their Digital Placement team in London. This hybrid role involves engaging with key insurance markets and development teams to align with digital transformation efforts. The ideal candidate will have project management experience and strong communication skills. This position offers professional development opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive work culture

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• Ability and acumen to engage and interface with senior leaders across Marsh.
• Project management experience.
• Proven track record of working under pressure.
• Ability to cope with evolving business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand the vision and communicate requirements to the development team.
• Knowledge of process steps in the Broking Placement cycle.
• Deep understanding of specialty facilities, panels & quota shares.
• Manage queries from Marsh Operations promptly.
• Coordinate with Brokers and colleagues within UK Specialty.
• Liaise with Insurers & 3rd party technology providers.
• Effectively plan workload to meet business timescales.
• Self-motivate to achieve team and personal objectives.

Skills

Engagement with senior leaders

Project management experience

Ability to work under pressure

Coping with evolving business requirements

Job description

Overview

Company: Marsh

Description:

Business Analyst - Digital Placement - Marsh Specialty

Are you interested in working within a highly skilled team that specialises in designing and delivering the next generation of digital placement solutions into the London specialty insurance market? Do you have a technical acumen and excellent organisation skills? If so, we are currently looking to expand our team and are interested in speaking with top talent within the insurance industry.

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Digital Placement team at Marsh Speciality. This role will be based in London office. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

You will be responsible for engaging with our UK Specialty and Bowring Marsh practices to understand how they trade risk today and how that can evolve with technology into the future, engaging with our key insurance markets to align with digital transformation efforts more across the London Market, and engaging with our development teams to ensure their roadmaps and functionality designs are aligned to business need.

This role could suit someone from a Product/Project Management background or possibly a Broker looking to move away from broking into a more technical role.

Responsibilities

• Fully understand the vision as well as the deployment phases of our placing platform and remain laser focused whilst communicating requirements to the development team
• Demonstrate knowledge of process steps, procedures and standards throughout the new business and renewal process of the Broking Placement cycle
• Gain a deep understanding of the specialty facilities, panels & quota shares
• Review and respond to queries emanating from Marsh Operations and manage these to close in a timely manner
• Liaise and coordinate with Brokers and colleagues within UK Specialty and across the wider organisation
• Liaise and coordinate with Insurers & 3rd party technology providers across the London insurance market
• Effectively plan and organise workload in order to meet business timescales
• Self-motivate in order to achieve desired results with regard to team, company and annual personal objectives

Qualifications

• Ability and acumen to engage and interface with senior leaders across Marsh
• Project management experience
• Proven track record of working under pressure
• Ability to cope with evolving business requirements

What makes you stand out

• Experience in change management, digital transformation, with experience in financial services being a clear differentiator
• SDLC and Agile methodologies

Why join our team

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world's top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [e-mail].

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.