Reinsurance Broker - Credit, Bond & Political Risk Team

This job is with Marsh McLennan, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Guy Carpenter is seeking a motivated and experienced professional eager to grow and thrive within our market-leading Credit, Bond & Political Risk Team in London, UK, as a Treaty Reinsurance Broker (Vice President level). In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and deepen your expertise within the dynamic and expanding credit specialty markets. Working within a nurturing and collaborative team environment, you will engage closely with clients, underwriters, and other partners to thoughtfully negotiate and place reinsurance contracts across a truly global marketplace. This role also offers a meaningful focus on relationship-building and business development. It is a wonderful chance to grow your career and contribute significantly to our organisation's success in a thriving sector of the industry.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate and nurture strong, lasting relationships with clients through regular conversations and meaningful engagement, including international visits.
• Guide the identification and understanding of risks in credit, bond, political risk, and related financial areas with care and insight.
• Collaborate closely with analytics and underwriting teams to co-create tailored client solutions and thoughtfully negotiate terms with reinsurers.
• Support the renewal process, manage placement documentation, and ensure smooth and timely follow-up on contract needs.
• Contribute actively to our sales and business development initiatives, including preparing responses to RFPs and tenders with a team-oriented approach.
• Stay attuned to evolving market trends and share insights with clients, brokers, and colleagues to help them navigate changes confidently.
• Uphold our professional standards with integrity and embrace MMC systems and tools to support your work effectively.

Qualifications

• Preferably holds Chartered Insurance Institute qualifications such as Cert CII, Dip CII, or ACII.
• Proven experience as an insurance/reinsurance broker or underwriter, ideally with a focus on credit, surety, and/or political risk.
• Strong data analysis and presentation skills to communicate insights clearly and effectively.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills to engage with clients and reinsurers with confidence and empathy.
• A natural ability to build and sustain positive relationships with clients and stakeholders, combined with strong organisational and time management skills.
• Comfortable at working collaboratively with colleagues, clients, and industry leaders at all levels.
• A commitment to handling confidential information with discretion and integrity, and managing potential conflicts thoughtfully.
• Resilience and adaptability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.

What makes you stand out

• Experience with treaty reinsurance.
• Deep understanding of the credit, surety, and political risk insurance market, including key players, products, and emerging trends.
• Confidence in recognising associated risks and designing (re)insurance risk transfer solutions with care and insight.
• Ability to identify market insights and trends and use this knowledge to guide clients in their underwriting and portfolio management strategies.
• Additional language skills are a plus.

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.

At Guy Carpenter, a Marsh business, you can be your best. We work on challenges that matter with colleagues who help bring out our best. Our uniquely collaborative environment will empower you to focus on your personal and professional success, learning from top specialists in the (re)insurance industry and leading you towards a rewarding and impactful career.

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 at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com. 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.