Partner Engagement Manager - London Wholesale

Division: Distribution and Marketing

Reports To: Head of Partner Engagement, Wholesale

Key Relationships: Partner Engagement and Marketing teams, underwriters and brokers.

Job Summary: Jointly manage broker facilities, ensuring robust governance, compliance, and adherence to acquisition cost protocols. Collaborate with underwriters and brokers to negotiate and secure renewals and identify new facility opportunities. Champion Beazley’s position as a leading specialty insurer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Jointly manage broker facilities: Ensuring robust governance, compliance, and adherence to acquisition cost protocols.
• Collaborate with underwriters and brokers to negotiate and secure renewals and new facility opportunities.
• Produce RFP responses within deadline.
• Maintain facility pipelines and prepare for upcoming renewals.
• Compile facility RAG document on a bi-annual basis and ensure appropriate remediation actions.
• Update facility process document when necessary and cascade internally.
• Work with Finance and CUO office to track acquisition costs.
• Provide updates for relevant committees within Beazley.
• Champion Beazley’s position as a leading specialty insurer by working collaboratively within the London Partner Engagement team.
• Serve as a relationship manager support for wholesale brokers: Communicate Beazley’s strategic objectives and underwriting priorities.
• Develop, track, and deliver joint strategic initiatives with partner brokers.
• Identify and cultivate opportunities for expanded trading.
• Understand and represent underwriting team priorities, ensuring these are effectively communicated to brokers.
• Analyse broker performance and market trends, collaborating with underwriters to design and execute targeted action plans to drive growth.
• Leverage Beazley data to generate actionable insights, identify emerging opportunities, and inform strategic decisions.
• Support and advance pipelining, cross-sell, and new business initiatives across the organization.
• Contribute to the delivery of impactful broker events that strengthen relationships and reinforce Beazley’s market presence.

General: It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving for Better, and Doing the Right Thing – as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.

We also expect Beazley employees to:

• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct.
• Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
• Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas.
• This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
• Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system.
• These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Personal Specification:

Skills and Abilities:

• The ability to establish close working relations with a range of professionals who operate under constant time pressure.
• Ability to negotiate and influence at all levels.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Strong organisation skills with the ability to manage own time, meet deadlines and prioritise.
• Excellent database interrogation capabilities with the ability to drive meaningful insights.
• Excellent report presentation skills allowing for the clear presentation of key facts.

Essential Criteria:

• Good understanding of the drivers of insurance markets.
• Good understanding of the financial drivers of insurance companies.
• Ability to think through the long-term impact of potential options.
• Use of various analysis and strategic frameworks to enable opportunities to be researched and assessed.
• Proven experience with client service.

Aptitude and Disposition:

• Shows initiative and self-motivated.
• Interested in understanding and helping others.
• Outcome focussed.
• Determination, persistence and strength of mind.
• An interest and passion for data and insight.

Competencies:

• Technical competence.
• Significant Excel experience.
• Self-motivated.
• Collaboration.
• Problem solving.
• Purposeful communication.
• Broad-based thinking.
• Business awareness.
• Creativity.
• Innovation.