Reinsurance Strategy & Execution Lead Treaty UK & International - Aon : Job Details

Reinsurance Strategy & Execution Lead (Treaty UK & International)

This role is part of the Client Solutions Strategy and Execution Function (S&E Function). This role works in close collaboration with Head of Client Solutions, regional CEO & COO’s and business leadership across the Solution Line.

The S&E function fills a gap between the businesses directional strategy and the delivery, through providing dedicated teams with focused time and resources to understand the strategic direction and break it down into business objectives with key initiatives and tasks to enable incremental and measurable transformation that accelerates execution resulting in accelerated growth.

The role is accountable for accelerating the development and execution of strategic global Reinsurance initiatives enabling business outcomes. Demonstrating an understanding of business needs, developing strong stakeholder and client relationships, and balancing local with global requirements will be key to your success. You will work closely with the NA Strategy and Execution Lead for Treaty Reinsurance to drive a consistent strategy and model implementation globally.

The post holder will work in collaboration with key stakeholders to execute global initiatives and set the direction of changes locally, including but not limited to business processes, technologies, tools, organisational structure, and systems. Implementation will be managed in regions by relevant teams under your direction to ensure alignment to the global strategy and deliver global standards.You will be instrumental to work closely with ABS and ensure we support ABS in accelerating the execution of the 3*3 initiatives and in improving clients and colleagues experience.

Sitting as part of the broader Client Solutions Leadership Team you will attend leadership meetings and support the Head of Client Solutions develop strategies across the business, ensuring alignment to your area of responsibility and viewing changes through the wider lens in order to ensure as business we continue to innovate and stay ahead of the competition.

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As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

Oversighting critical initiatives and projects within the segment you are aligned to

• Leading the growth planning, together with the business leader
• Being responsible for execution and for the change management
• Evaluating and sizing short, medium and long-term opportunities into a defined schedule of strategic priorities
• Driving initiatives to progress capabilities and expand propositions relating to emerging risk areas
• Defining and leading teams
• Programme handling the implementation of these strategies
• Communicating central initiatives, goals and progress to senior leadership
• Supporting strategic and annual business planning, quarterly and monthly business reviews, and quarterly leadership meetings
• Develop/manage organic and inorganic growth investment cases as applicable
• Proactively recommend and implement continuous operational business improvement including efforts to support margin expansion and growth
• Strategic Planning and execution to enable growth across the product line.
• Strategy and development for Technical Broking (Technical Support) ensuring resource is optimised to suit global business realities and Aon are recognised for market leading technical advice.
• Digital broking platform strategy development, design and execution to ensure Reinsurance Solutions has the trading tools and capabilities to be market leading, trade efficiently with trading partners. This will include understanding what data points we need to gather to support the business in delivering more insights and how we can enable access to that data (risk/placement/claims data)
• Operating model maintenance and development to drive the optimal operating practices across the firm that deliver client and colleague value. Taking the identified opportunities to drive continuous improvement based on the needs of the business – developing innovative solutions that are growth orientated. You will work with ABS to enable implementation.
• Understanding the competitive landscape and maintaining a view of our competitors, both traditional and emerging capabilities, so we can respond accordingly.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• 5+ years’ experience within the Reinsurance Treaty Sector
• Confirmed experience at development and execution of regional critical initiatives focussed on delivering growth
• Project management experience including across global businesses
• Experience in developing and completing long term strategic plans and driving growth
• Strong verbal and written skills, presentation skills and able to actively credibly contribute to the overall strategic business agenda
• A commercial mind-set with the ability to balance strategic needs with delivering operational objectives
• Strategic problem solver, with a solution led approach
• Experience with collaborating with HR, Finance, Legal, IT and able to flexible manage and leverage resources in a sophisticated global matrix structure

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two “Global Wellbeing Days” each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself.  We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!