Assistant Vice President, Business Development

Marsh; George Town; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh in Malaysia (Georgetown, Penang) is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Business Development to drive high-value client relationships within a hybrid work model. You will lead strategic sales efforts, identify new opportunities, and collaborate with colleagues across Marsh’s lines of business to deliver client-focused risk solutions.

The ideal candidate has 6–8 years in sales, strong communication and networking skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic financial

Qualifications

• Degree holder with 6–8 years of sales experience, preferably in financial services.
• Strong communication, articulation and persuasion abilities.
• Outstanding interpersonal and organizational skills with multitasking ability.
• Solid business acumen and project management capabilities with analytical mind.

Responsibilities

• Achieves sales goals by maintaining and gaining large, high-yield accounts through referrals and strategic outreach.
• Maintains market awareness of trends, competitors, and contracts to identify opportunities.
• Drafts due diligence reports and presentations for RFPs or senior colleagues.
• Constructs targeted marketing plans for offerings for potential accounts.
• Expands professional network by attending conferences and representing the company.
• Collects insights on relationship satisfaction and reports to seniors with context.

Skills

Sales experience

Networking

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Education

Degree holder

Job description

Assistant Vice President, Business Development

We are seeking a talented senior manager to join our Business Development division in Marsh. This role will be based in Georgetown, Penang. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working as per respective team's arrangement. You can expect to be part of a diligent division where you will enhance your sales expertise and data‑driven insights to help clients tackle some of the world’s most challenging and complex risks. There will be opportunities to collaborate with diverse colleagues and stakeholders across various lines of business within Marsh.

What you will do

• Achieves sales goals by maintaining and gaining large, high-yield accounts through referrals, conducting strategized cold calls, following up on RFPs, general market exposure and frequent interactions with existing accounts.
• Maintains a thorough awareness of market occurrences including important developments, trends, competitors' positioning and the status of business contracts to assist in identifying potential business opportunities.
• Under minimal supervision drafts comprehensive due diligence reports and presentations containing fundamental qualitative and quantitative assessments in response to a request for proposal or to assist a senior colleague to gain business.
• Constructs targeted standard marketing plans for business offerings and/or concepts directed at small, straight‑forward potential accounts and aspects of complex marketing plans for use by senior colleagues.
• Belongs to various professional organizations and attends conferences and events to expand and maintain a large professional network and represent the company.
• Collects insights and information on relationship satisfaction and reports results to senior colleagues offering context and suggestions when needed to best ensure account satisfaction and retention.

What you need to have

• A Degree holder with at least 6-8 years of sales experience preferably within financial services industry or from a professional services firm.
• Passion for sales and networking with corporate professionals
• Excellent communication skills including articulation, grammar and persuasion
• Outstanding interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects, and rapidly changing priorities
• Strong business acumen and project management with exceptional analytical skills.

What makes you stand out

• Proven experience in securing large accounts by strategic association efforts
• Have excellent communication skills with the drive to expand your knowledge
• Self-motivated, highly organized, resourceful and meticulous
• Innovative and technically inclined to drive solutions using system applications

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.

Company

Marsh

Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, 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.

Marsh 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 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.

Marsh in Malaysia has specialist divisions within a multidisciplinary team environment to meet clients’ specific needs. These include:

Affinity

Employee Benefits

Energy

Financial and Professional Liability (FINPRO)

Infrastructure

Marine

Takaful

Technology

Trade Credit and Political Risk