About the Role
Great opportunity to join our North America Property division as an Account Executive, working with clients/cedants from across the globe.
Responsibilities
- Understand a client or prospect’s business, situations, opportunities, problems, and key issues.
- Manage relationships and negotiate placement with the reinsurance market.
- Prepare client and prospect presentations considering the impact of client profitability.
- Work with other Account Executives and Sales Team in determining appropriate solutions and structuring and pricing the deal.
- Identify appropriate markets and determine placing strategy.
- Create and grow relationships with underwriters in London and international markets.
- Price and design conceptual programmes.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with WTW’s guidelines and procedures.
- Ensure good relationships and communication with other WTW associates.
- Maintain a thorough understanding and be an expert real-time user for all relevant systems.
- Understand the clients’ business and risk management needs and look for solutions to deliver those needs through the provision of ongoing service.
- Understand, apply and where necessary explain the BU policies and procedures.
- Provide technical, industry and subject matter expertise where required.
- Draw on expertise within specialist technical teams within the BU and across the Group for clients as required.
- Liaise with clients and build strong relationships.
- Determine appropriate solutions, structure, price, and placement strategies that meet the clients’ needs and deliver profitable business for a range of clients.
- Grow existing portfolio by identifying new and/or existing opportunities.
- Support the drive of the sales process and business area practice activity in relation to winning, retaining, and developing profitable new clients.
- Develop and maintain a pipeline of prospects including research, initiation of contact, meetings, responding to RFPs, new business presentations, and accurately maintaining WTW CRM database to create and convert sales opportunities.
- Respond quickly and accurately to new business introductions.
- Actively identify opportunities to work with colleagues across the business to capitalize on account penetration and cross-selling opportunities.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of relevant products and services offered by WTW.
- Network internally with other BUs, within the sector, and with external specialists (lawyers, TPAs, insurers).
- Work closely and maintain working relationships with key market contacts (and the Broking Team) as required.
- Ensure transparency of agency and other commitments made to carriers and clients.
- Manage compliant processing of contracts as per FCA and contract certainty requirements.
- Assist with loading of data into the relevant WTW Systems.
- Check market presentations and client documentation as appropriate.
- Assist with and design programme and pricing structures to best meet the client’s needs based on knowledge of the client, the reinsurance market and industry sector proposition.
- Deliver optimization of revenue from new and existing clients through the use of the full range of appropriate placement channels and markets for the specific client segment of the business.
