Associate Director- Intellectual Property & Cyber

Posting Description

We are looking for a suitable candidate to join our Intellectual Property (IP) & Cyber Team focused on placing Global business into the London Market. This role will require IP and/or Cyber product experience, a background in broking, and collaboration with the global IP and Cyber teams.

The candidate should have good communication/negotiation skills, strong market relationships, and be able to work well in a team while self‑managing workload according to a well‑defined process. Familiarity with the documentation and systems involved in placing open‑market business in the London market is also required.

This is a hybrid role based in the City of London within our Global Broking Centre.

What the day will look like

In this wide and varied role your responsibilities will include:

• Negotiation and placement of renewal and new Cyber business in a contract‑certain process
• Review and drafting of insurance contracts, and issuing them to clients and insurers
• Sign insurance contracts with insurers via electronic placing platforms
• Provide the highest level of service and technical expertise to clients
• Prepare market presentations and broker submissions to respond to clients enquiries to insurers
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with insurance market and underwriters
• Represent Aon, demonstrating an understanding of corporate objectives

How this opportunity is different

Cyber is a relatively new but rapidly evolving class of business and therefore is an exciting sector to be part of. Aon is a leading player in this field and places the cyber insurance requirements of some of the world's largest firms into the London Insurance Market. This is a fantastic opportunity to forge a specialist broking career and build your own personal brand within a market leader.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Excellent technical insurance knowledge including policy wordings - preferably Cyber
• Experience in broking
• Ability to utilise insurance industry IT systems to efficiently deliver client service
• Experience managing effective client relationships
• Strong intuition for business
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• High level of numeracy
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work well as part of a cross-functional team
• Demonstrate integrity and professionalism