Senior Placement Specialist - Excess Casualty - Education

Marsh; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 328,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

401K

Job summary

Marsh is seeking a Sr. Placement Specialist to lead umbrella and excess casualty placements for education clients, including complex programs with tight timelines.

You will develop placement strategy and carrier engagement plans tailored to education risks, and build strong relationships with underwriters to drive pricing and terms. In this hybrid role, you will coordinate submissions, support negotiations, and partner with client teams to deliver a high‑quality experience while scaling the

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of relevant experience in casualty placement, underwriting, broking, or excess/umbrella casualty.
• Strong understanding of excess casualty program structure and placement workflow.
• Demonstrated ability to manage priorities independently and deliver accurate work under time pressure.
• P&C license a must, or ability to obtain.
• Bachelor's degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute umbrella and excess casualty placements for education clients, including complex and layered programs with tight timelines.
• Develop placement strategy and carrier engagement plans tailored to education risks (higher education, K–12, affiliated entities, etc.).
• Build and maintain strong relationships with carrier partners and underwriters to drive outcomes on pricing, terms, and capacity.
• Coordinate submission development and underwriting data flow; identify gaps, anticipate underwriter questions, and support a strong risk narrative.
• Support negotiation of coverage terms and structure (limits, attachments, retentions, follow-form vs. standalone considerations, as relevant to the program).
• Partner with client-facing colleagues to deliver a high-quality experience through clear communication, proactive coordination, and strong execution.
• Contribute to building the education placement "platform": market intelligence, best practices, playbooks, benchmarking, and lessons learned to improve consistency and scalability.
• Help develop and scale our education-specific placement offering "education tower", including documenting a repeatable approach and partnering with stakeholders, while maintaining appropriate discretion externally.

Skills

Casualty placement

Underwriting

Broking

Client relationship

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

RFP process

Job description

Marsh is seeking candidates for our open Placement Specialist position. This is a hybrid schedule and will be in the office 3x per week.

Marsh is hiring an experienced Placement Specialist to help expand and formalize an Education vertical within our Umbrella & Excess Casualty placement platform. This role will support complex education accounts and programs, partner closely with client and production teams, and help build repeatable placement strategies and market relationships across the education segment. The ideal candidate has strong judgment and follow-through, is comfortable operating independently, and brings a high-integrity, solutions-oriented approach to sophisticated placements.

What can you expect:

• Becoming a member of Marsh's best in class Placement team who delivers expert broking & strategy solutions to help manage risk with confidence.
• In this Sr. Placement Specialist role, you will develop an understanding of the clients' business strategic priorities, risk strategies and risk management needs to help provide knowledge and advice to complex clients.
• Builds and maintains relationships with underwriters, and is involved in the placement of sophisticated insurance programs
• Helps identify the need for new products and develops innovative solutions for clients.
• Completes policy management activities and delivery of reviewed policy to client and helps address client inquiries as necessary.
• Delivers technical expertise in the delivery and presentation of RFP’s

What's in it for you?

• Gain exposure to key stakeholders and have the ability to make strong business connections.
• An opportunity for long term growth within a dynamic and growing business unit.
• Ability to make an immediate impact to support our book of business and growth of the organization.
• Exceptional benefits, great time off and additional perks that come with working at Marsh.

We will count on you to:

• Lead and execute umbrella and excess casualty placements for education clients, including complex and layered programs with tight timelines.
• Develop placement strategy and carrier engagement plans tailored to education risks (higher education, K–12, affiliated entities, etc., as applicable).
• Build and maintain strong relationships with carrier partners and underwriters to drive outcomes on pricing, terms, and capacity.
• Coordinate submission development and underwriting data flow; identify gaps, anticipate underwriter questions, and support a strong risk narrative.
• Support negotiation of coverage terms and structure (limits, attachments, retentions, follow-form vs. standalone considerations, as relevant to the program).
• Partner with client-facing colleagues to deliver a high-quality experience through clear communication, proactive coordination, and strong execution.
• Contribute to building the education placement "platform": market intelligence, best practices, playbooks, benchmarking, and lessons learned to improve consistency and scalability.
• Help develop and scale our education-specific placement offering "education tower", including documenting a repeatable approach and partnering with stakeholders, while maintaining appropriate discretion externally.

What you need to have:

• 3–5+ years of relevant experience in casualty placement, underwriting, broking, or excess/umbrella casualty.
• Strong understanding of excess casualty program structure and placement workflow.
• Demonstrated ability to manage priorities independently and deliver accurate work under time pressure.
• P&C license a must, or ability to obtain
• Bachelors' degree preferred

What makes you stand out?

• Independent operator who can own workstreams end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Builder mindset: interest in developing an education vertical and improving how we consistently win and deliver in the segment.
• Trusted partner: dependable, organized, and accountable—someone colleagues and markets want to work with.
• Experience with large, structured education programs and/or multi-layer placements.
• Established market relationships in umbrella/excess casualty.

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 embracing 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, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [e-mail].

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.

The applicable base salary range for this role is $154,200 to $328,400.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case‑by‑case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

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