Broker - Facilities & Binders

Lockton is recruiting for a placing broker to join our team in a role providing programme design, placement, marketing and consultancy services to our clients.

This is an excellent opportunity to accelerate your career in a collaborative, successful and growing team – and to be benefit from a breadth of involvement in many different classes of business across many territories.

• Manage client, market, and underwriter relationships at an operational level.
• Understand clients risk profile, business needs and exposures to assist in providing advice on coverage, programme pricing and retention strategy.
• Assist in overseeing the preparation and issuance of appropriate coverage documentation, including wordings and placement slips within agreed contract certainty deadlines.
• Preparing market submissions for new and renewal business.
• Identify and manage the use of other Lockton resources/specialist teams.
• Assist with the resolution of service issues with insurers and other third-party providers.
• Attend Client Strategy Meetings where required.
• Provide, with oversight, technical reviews (where identified) of insurance programmes for clients, making recommendations for change, where deemed relevant.
• Maintain a current knowledge of cover written by the major insurers.
• Keep abreast of insurance market developments.
• Constantly monitor the market in order to consider the most appropriate placement strategy for Lockton.
• Provide support in drafting reports/presentations/bulletins for use both internally and externally.

• Previous experience in placing binders business, ideally with experience in North American business
• Growth mindset, and the drive to play an important role alongside the team in running and growing the book
• Excellent communication skills, and strong market relationships
• Analytical skills to interpret data and analyses to enable effective broking