Middle Office Operations Transformation Lead

Aon plc; Dublin, Cork; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Aon is creating a high-impact Middle Office team across Ireland and Krakow to transform operational delivery within Wealth, Health and Talent. As Lead, you will design the operating model, manage a cross-border team and drive efficiency, governance and client service improvements.

This is a strategic, end-to-end transformation role with senior sponsorship and tangible outcomes. You will apply automation, analytics and AI to real business challenges, leading change while collaborating with senior

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in operations and transformation.
• Experience designing operating models and governance structures.
• Hands-on experience with automation, AI, analytics and digital tools.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills with senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-border teams; cross-border experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Establish the Middle Office operating model, priorities and transformation roadmap.
• Build and lead a cross-border team focused on delivery and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior leaders to identify work that can be simplified, centralized, automated or redesigned.
• Understand root causes and design scalable future-state processes and services.
• Lead implementation and embed process and behavioral changes.

Skills

Leadership

Ops leadership

Business transformation

Automation

Analytics

AI tools

Cross-border collab

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Power Apps

Dashboards

Copilot

Job description

Senior Operations Manager - Middle Office Transformation Lead

Are you an experienced operations and transformation leader who is comfortable with technology, influencing senior collaborators and crafting practical solutions to complex business challenges?

We are crafting a small, high-impact Middle Office team of fewer than ten colleagues across Ireland and Krakow. A key strategic priority within Aon's Human Capital business, the team will transform operational delivery across Wealth, Health and Talent.

Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will develop the function from scratch—designing its operating model, managing a cross-border team, and driving clear improvements in efficiency, consistency, governance, and client service. Your efforts will free up capacity for client-facing colleagues to concentrate on the work clients value most.

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 team and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

Middle Office is a new, strategically important team composed to simplify and standardize processes. It centralizes relevant activities and uses technology, automation, data, and AI for better efficiency, consistency, and control. It unites:

• Digitalisation Team – developing scalable solutions using tools such as Power Apps, dashboards and AI (including Copilot)
• Client Services Team – providing operational and governance assistance to consulting teams

As Lead, you will coordinate these teams to optimize processes, boost delivery and promote efficiency, innovation and consistency within the function. Here’s what you will build and deliver:

• • Establish the Middle Office operating model, priorities, culture and transformation roadmap.
  • Build and lead a high-performing cross-border team, encouraging innovation, accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with senior leaders to identify work that can be simplified, centralized, automated or redesigned.
  • Understand root causes and build scalable future-state processes, services and operating models.
  • Apply automation, AI, analytics, and digital tools when they provide authentic, quantifiable business benefits.
  • Develop compelling arguments, secure collaborator dedication, and constructively challenge existing ways of working.
  • Lead implementation and embed balanced process and behavioral change.

How this opportunity is different

• Build, not inherit: compose a newly established team, its identity, operating model and strategic direction.
• Small team, significant mandate: work with strong senior sponsorship and a broad, visible remit.
• End-to-end ownership: move from opportunity and solution building through implementation and measurable outcomes.
• Technology with purpose: apply operations, data, automation, and AI to real business challenges!

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Proven leadership experience in operations, business transformation, shared services, professional services or a similar environment.
• A strong record of crafting and implementing operational solutions, process redesign and service improvement from concept through delivery.
• Confidence and credibility with technology, including hands-on experience with automation, AI, analytics, and digital tools.
• Excellent collaborator management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build support for change.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams; cross-border experience is desirable.
• Strong governance, operational excellence and commercial capability, with a data-driven, outcomes-focused approach and a passion for developing people.

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