Head of Distribution Relationships - Reinsurance

Gallagher; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading reinsurance firm in London seeks a strategic engagement leader to drive initiatives and strengthen reinsurer relationships. This role involves collaboration with senior leaders, strategic planning, and leveraging data visualization for impactful decisions. The ideal candidate will bring proven leadership experience and exceptional organizational skills. Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive health plans, and generous holiday offerings.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance up to 10x salary

Income protection coverage

Health cash plan

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Emergency back-up family care

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a similar role is essential.
• Track record of successful leadership in strategic planning and execution.
• Experience with client engagement plans.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior leaders to evolve strategic plans.
• Lead implementation of the Reinsurer Engagement plan.
• Monitor and document key takeaways from executive meetings.

Skills

Strategic planning

Leadership

Data visualization

Stakeholder engagement

Organizational skills

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Data analysis tools

Job description

Introduction

Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

The strength of our market relationships, including a deep understanding of reinsurer behavior, truly differentiates our ability to provide delivery of capital and solutions to our clients, enabling long-term, strategic growth.

As we evolve these trading partnerships, our challenge is to define and execute a best-in-class reinsurer relationship strategy which will have measurable success outcomes for our teams and our client partners.

At Gallagher Re, we cultivate a collaborative, client-centric environment, providing you with the tools, resources, and support needed to excel and thrive. You will gain executive-level exposure to billion-dollar trading partnerships within the global reinsurance sector and access to an internal network of senior executives. Our world-leading data and analytics team will collaborate with you to drive strategic initiatives and help shape the future of the industry.

How you\'ll make an impact

• Collaborate with senior leaders to evolve the Reinsurer Engagement strategic plan by aggregating Exec and regional needs supplemented by ongoing assessment of successful outcomes.
• Lead the implementation of the Reinsurer Engagement plan determining the priority and type of engagement needed with each reinsurer. Engagement priorities should focus on strategic alignment, revenue growth impacts and client needs (direct or indirect).
• Clearly define and communicate priorities for each relationship, developing comprehensive action plans and ensuring consistent follow-ups.
• Monitor and document key takeaways from executive meetings, ensuring follow-through on action items and providing regular progress updates.
• Partner with appropriate stakeholders to create content for strategy meetings.
• Track and analyse reinsurer performance and review external messaging such as investor day topics to inform planning strategies and incorporation into action plans.
• Source and execute opportunities for revenue growth via new capacity creation, strategic identification of reinsurers for given opportunities, performance tracking and coordination with retro teams, consulting engagements or other similar scenarios.
• Facilitate reinsurer surveys for use in internal evaluations and to provide reinsurers’ feedback and peer review to drive improving outcomes.
• Oversee the advancement of reinsurer analysis tools and placement data utilisation, for internal and external consumption driving dynamic responsiveness to reinsurer behaviors and more targeted placement and engagement strategies.
• Identify and evaluate potential opportunities across the Gallagher footprint.
• These duties emphasise clarity, leadership, and strategic coordination.

About you

• Proven experience within a similar role is essential.
• A proven track record of successful leadership in strategic planning and execution with the successful delivery of business growth in reinsurance.
• Experience leading the development and execution of a strategic client/market engagement plan.
• Connector in chief, with the ability to work across multiple global stakeholders in a complex matrix report line structure.
• Exceptional organisational skills to ensure focus remains on engagement, strategic alignment and positive impacts on revenue.
• Track record in leveraging data visualisations to drive a story/strategy.

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.