Job Description
Broker (Placing Broker)
This role is a key contributor to the strategic growth and operational excellence of Willis Re’s business. The role will assist with placement strategies and drive business development initiatives while ensuring compliance and profitability.
Role Responsibilities
- Serve as a point of contact for key clients, ensuring high levels of service and responsiveness.
- Conduct strategic reviews, renewal planning, and risk advisory sessions with client
- Identify cross-selling and upselling opportunities across Willis Re’s portfolio.
- Analyse underwriting data and develop market knowledge to inform placement strategies
- Collaborate with actuarial and analytics teams to assess portfolio performance and identify growth opportunities.
- Assist with the structuring, negotiation, and placement of reinsurance programmes by developing bespoke client solutions
- Grow and maintain strong relationships with global reinsurers to secure optimal terms and capacity.
- Ensure all placements and documentation meet internal quality standards and regulatory requirements.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Previous proven reinsurance broking experience
- Strong understanding of reinsurance structures
- Advanced negotiation skills and deep market relationships with global reinsurers
- Excellent communication, presentation, and client‑facing skills
- Ability to manage complex placements under tight timelines
- Degree in Business, Finance, Risk Management, or related field; professional designations (e.g., ACII) beneficial
About Willis Re
We combine specialist broking with analytics, modeling and research to help insurers optimize risk transfer, strengthen balance sheets and achieve sustainable growth. Our approach is relationship-driven, transparent and outcome-focused.
At the heart of Willis Re is a focus on delivering the most cutting-edge analytical solutions to enable more informed, better decision-making for risk selection, portfolio optimization, and capital management.
The launch of Willis Re brings a strategic advantage of being unhindered by legacy, an ability to leverage data, statistical models and advanced technologies with the best knowledge and expertise to deliver more efficient and effective reinsurance outcomes. This places Willis Re in a unique position to build a truly analytically driven business, focused on creating solutions for the reinsurance industry that are future led and forward thinking.
Willis Re will also leverage recognized technical expertise from WTW’s Insurance Consulting & Technology business including their advanced modeling and analytical capabilities. Alongside this will be WTW’s Research Network, an award-winning business supporting and influencing science to improve the understanding and quantification of risk.
Willis Re is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, orientation, or any other legally protected categories. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please email us at [email protected]