Director

Aon Corporation; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm in London is seeking a Director for its War and Terrorism team. This role involves providing strategic advice on risk placement while managing client relationships. The ideal candidate will possess extensive market knowledge and strong negotiation skills. Competitive salary and benefits package offered including flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible working options

25 days holiday

Qualifications

• Proven ability to provide specialist advice to clients.
• Extensive experience in risk placement strategies.
• Strong track record of building and managing client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the primary point of contact within the broking team.
• Provides advice on placement design and available coverage.
• Negotiates terms and conditions of placement.

Skills

Market intelligence

Relationship management

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Director - War and Terrorism

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Director - War and Terrorism

Aon are currently recruiting a Director in our War and Terrorism team as part of the GBC, to join our team in London. The Director will be primarily responsible for providing advice to clients and colleagues on placement design and identifying appropriate risk placement.

About Aon

Headquartered in London, Aon Plc is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

Aon is an equal opportunities employer. Aon\'s recruitment and selection policy ensures the best possible skill mix of colleagues and the highest quality candidates are appointed using objective job-related criteria.

About the Role

Your impact as a Director:

• Acts as the primary point of contact within the broking team for specific clients to provide specialist advice to the client and client team
• Provides advice to clients and colleagues on placement design, available coverage and capacity, pricing, potential coverage enhancements and market progress within scope of responsibility
• Identifies appropriate channels for risk placement based on clients\' market security guidelines and other requirements
• Negotiates terms and conditions of placement, and performs administrative support role where necessary
• Works in partnership with client teams, across geographic regions within EMEA to ensure client/network needs and expectations are met. Seeks to enhance the sharing of knowledge and ideas within the broader team.
• Responsible for working in accordance with the Aon UK Limited Risk Management Framework, and compliance with the Aon UK Limited policies, including participation in the management of risks (including completion of mandatory training) that may adversely affect the business, interests or reputation of any Group Company

About you

Your knowledge and expertise:

Client/Market Knowledge

• Actively seeks out market intelligence to spot opportunities and follows up where appropriate
• Able to carry out analysis of competitors to spot new opportunities
• Building business acumen by looking at more macro issues surrounding clients/competitors
• Seeks feedback from the market to adapt personal approach

Relationship Management

• Is well known in the market and has an established reputation
• Actively networks to build new relationships outside of initial circle and recognises the importance of this
• Understands the importance of tailoring approach with different audiences
• Strong interpersonal skills and confident in many different situations with clients and the market
• Actively works on a small number of new business targets

Salary and Benefits

This role offers a competitive salary and bonus, plus a comprehensive benefits package and 25 days holiday. Through our flexible benefits, you will also have the opportunity to choose additional benefits, including healthcare, childcare vouchers and additional holiday. We also offer tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organisation.

Our Colleague Experience

Every day, our colleagues make a difference, work with the best, own their potential, and value one another. Together, we share this one purpose: to empower economic and human possibility around the world. This unifying goal is at the heart of our identity, and it lives in everything we do. To learn more about our colleague experience, visit Aon Colleague Experience.

We\'re happy to talk flexible working. If you need to flex your working pattern, Aon offers flexible and agile working policies and we\'re happy to discuss options with you upon application

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