Investment Team Leader Birmingham

Do you want a lead investment consulting role advising large institutional clients supported by Aon’s breadth of specialist knowledge and expertise? Would you enjoy leading a diverse regional consulting team focused on driving positive outcomes for both clients and colleagues? If you’re passionate about joining an innovative and market leading business, then read on! This is a hybrid working role with flexibility to work both virtually and from our Birmingham office.

Aon is in the business of better decisions. At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

As a Senior Investment Consultant and Team Leader, you will not only own key client relationships and deliver advice to asset owners (including DB pension schemes, endowments, charities, and other institutional clients), but also play a pivotal role in leading and managing a regional client service team. Given the breadth of capability at Aon, you will be supported by a team of dedicated client-facing colleagues as well as expertise from our many specialist teams such as risk & modelling, investment manager research, asset allocation, and more.

Your Day-to-day Focus Will Include:

• Establishing relationships with clients to understand and solve the challenges they face.
• Driving business results through efficient delivery of client service and connecting and working with colleagues across Aon’s specialist teams.
• Finding opportunities to innovate and drive efficiency.
• Developing junior colleagues into future consultants.
• Promoting an inclusive culture across Aon.

In Your Capacity As Team Leader, You Will Also:

• Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the client service team, empowering and motivating colleagues through regular meetings and development opportunities.
• Foster an inclusive environment where all colleagues feel valued and engaged.
• Support colleagues to bring the best ideas to clients, ensuring the team is aware of the latest ideas and solutions and actively considers their appropriateness for clients.
• Oversee resource management, ensuring clients are sufficiently resourced and collaborating across offices to lead surplus or deficit of resource efficiently.
• Oversee the team’s financial management, including client billing, profitability, and compensation cycles.

This dual focus ensures you will have the opportunity to develop and test your leadership skills, influence the success and direction of the Birmingham team, and work closely with senior business managers to implement and drive positive change.

This is a unique opportunity to work as a senior investment consultant whilst also flexing your leadership skills to lead a high performing team. At Aon, the opportunity is much wider than just the local consulting team. You’ll quickly build a network across different offices, business areas and Aon teams, working with a variety of clients. With a persistently developing investment backdrop, we quickly allocate teams and dedicate resource to respond to market developments, providing a vast array of opportunities for consultants to specialise and create their own role within the business.

A great example is the rapid development and growth of our OCIO capability over recent years as well as growth in the Other Asset Owner space as part of our strategy to diversify our client base. Aon has a wealth of market-leading specialists prepared to support you in your role, producing thought-provoking content and assisting with the delivery of customized advice to clients. Continued investment in our infrastructure and systems that support our 50,000 strong global workforce ensures you can efficiently manage your time to drive value and business results.

There is a strong focus on sharing of ideas and working as a team within the UK investment team and more broadly across Aon. During each week there are multiple department wide video conference calls keeping consultants up to date on the latest business results, ideas from specialist teams and opportunities for colleagues to put themselves forward to support new initiatives.

Skills And Experience That Will Lead To Success:

• Knowledge of investment markets, with experience of building relationships and providing advice to asset owners. You understand their needs and deliver solutions tailored to them.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to distil complex information for clients, and act as a conduit between the business and the team.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team of colleagues, delegate effectively, and empower others through regular meetings and development opportunities.
• Experience in fostering an inclusive and diverse team environment, ensuring all colleagues feel valued and engaged.
• A desire for new challenges, including the opportunity to influence the direction of the team, collaborate across offices, and drive positive change within the organisation.

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to lead 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!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued. We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us to request an accommodation on ReasonableAdjustments@Aon.com.

Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.