Lead Associate - Broking, Property

The Role

• Support placement of individual accounts including new business and renewals, demonstrating technical capability in the field of property insurance.
• Support new business RFPs 
• Work with members of the P&C team to support them in the execution of property placements.
• Provide knowledge, insight and direction for broking activities to ensure that clients’ expectations are regularly met. 
• Responsible to ensure that relevant regulatory and technical standards are met. Helps support the broking team’s objective to achieve agreed operational and financial goals.
• Orchestrate new business placement, renewals and alterations of existing coverage.
• Provide coverage and program design advice and expertise to clients; perform needs and gap analysis to make recommendations regarding program improvements.
• Build strong partnerships with a broad range of organizations and stakeholders in the market in order to secure optimum terms and conditions for clients.
• Support design and preparation of draft proposals and presentation decks and finalize of carrier quotes, terms and conditions and coverage confirmations to ensure contract certainty.
• Bind carrier quotes and review binders and coverage confirmations.
• Request / Attend and participate in regular client and underwriter meetings.

The Requirements

• Insurance or relevant industry with minimum of 5 years’ general insurance/ reinsurance experience.  
• Educated to a degree level 
• Ideally professional qualifications such as ACII or similar country equivalent, or relevant industry experience
• Holds BCP & ComGI
• Ability to work as a team player in a dynamic broking environment
• Exceptional communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• High levels of business and financial acumen with an understanding and support of company strategy
• Strong skills in problem solving and planning 
• Strong group presentation skills (written and verbal); ability to drive complex/technical conversations and engage at executive level.
• Relationship management and customer focus; ability to leverage internal and external relationships to bring WTW resources and assets tailored to client needs; ability to drive conflict resolution.
• Negotiation skills: ability to develop innovative and creative solutions to do complex deals, drive consensus across internal and external stakeholders to close deals.
• Insurance technical skills: ability to apply knowledge of coverage forms in analysis of program design, identification of coverage gaps and ongoing coverage consultation. Ability to interpret, analyze and present models.
• Technology acumen – ability to utilize technology-based record management systems; basic MS Office skills and familiarity with other relevant online tools.

Equal Opportunity Employer