Consulting Director – Construction Specialist/Risk Engineering in England

Marsh Risk Consulting is seeking a talented individual to lead our construction risk engineering and consulting proposition in the UK. This role will be based in London. This is a unique opportunity to service UK clients and to develop and deliver a global service proposition for international clients who place business in the London insurance markets. You would be joining a Marsh team of over 1,000 construction professionals across 130 countries. Marsh Risk Consulting provides clients with strategic advice and innovative solutions across a wide range of insurable and non-insurable risks.

While the focus for this position will be risk engineering, you would work with multi-disciplinary teams to support enterprise risk management, probable maximum loss (PML) studies, risk finance optimisation (RFO), claims management, and loss control solutions. You would be a lead member of our global construction risk advisory team.

We will count on you to:

• Work with clients and colleagues to deliver the best risk management and insurance support for clients by accurately representing the risk profile of client assets to the insurance market.
• Conduct surveys and create underwriting reports, risk improvement recommendations and loss estimates.
• Lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and internal experts to deliver risk assessments, insights and support to clients.
• Build differentiated service offerings by working with our experts across operational risk consulting, strategic consulting, claims solutions and analytics.
• Improve the safety performance for our client through recommendations and implementation of best practices.
• Work with a specialist team of client executives, brokers and claims colleagues to provide technical information and support for insurance placement, tenders and requests for proposals.
• Liaise with insurance markets on technical topics.
• Develop thought-leadership publications to support clients in their understanding and delivery of improvement in construction risk engineering, risk management and safety management topics.
• Apply strong communications and influencing skills – capable of presenting complex analytical topics across all levels of an organization including senior stakeholders.
• Support the development of junior colleagues in their consulting skills and technical knowledge.

What you need to have:

• Extensive industry experience within the construction sector.
• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering subject (or similar).
• Effective communications skills to liaise with senior management at various sites, delivering presentations and leading client and insurance market meetings.
• A highly organised work ethic in order to achieve report deadlines and coordinate site visits with a range of clients and underwriters across a variety of countries.
• An advanced engineering skill set including experience with process safety management, operations management, construction project management, asset integrity management and emergency response.
• Able to travel up to *****% of the time, both one-day and longer trips.

What makes you stand out?

• Experience working for an insurer or broker.
• Time in a senior management position(s) or positions of technical influence.
• Professional/Chartered/Fellow of Professional Institute.
• Language skills.

Why join our team:

We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders. We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities. Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh Risk is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.