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General
Job Title: Client Manager, Captives
Division: Property Risks
Reports To: As per Beazley's organisation chart
Job Summary:
As a Client Manager, your primary responsibility is to develop new business with assigned large corporations, a journey from the first contact to the first transaction.

• You will excel in understanding the client risk landscape, their risk management strategy and priorities, and how Beazley's products, solutions and services can be deployed to help them reach their objectives.
• You will also demonstrate your ability to navigate the broker relationship(s), brokers being key business partners.
• Your consultative and holistic approach will help you to originate and develop new risk-financing-related business opportunities. Your focus on delivering innovative tailor-made solutions, as a superior alternative to commoditized insurance products will foster the "Customer Experience" and establish new win-win partnerships.
• Whilst you will be a first-class negotiator with the client and his/her brokers, you will also prove to be a convincing ambassador internally to obtain the buy-in of the senior management, shape, align and lead cross-functional teams for results.

Personal Skills:

• Entrepreneurial acumen - at ease in taking ownership on how to develop new business
• Excellent communicator and a skilled diplomat able to find common ground and alignment across internal (underwriting an operations teams) and external (client, brokers) boundaries to bring deals to conclusion
• Leadership - ability to motivate, stimulate and align the individual members of cross functional teams, with focus on qualitative and timely result delivery
• Consultative approach talent - excellent listener with ability to identify early potential opportunities and challenges on the marketplace
• Pragmatism / Solutions-driven - can quickly conceive realistic and practical ways to convert business opportunities into successful execution.
• Integrity and reliability - trust builder, deliver on promise, honest and transparent, always available and accessible even in adverse situations.
• Ability to simultaneously drive several transactions with different levels of maturity. Good at keeping the ball rolling, triaging and prioritizing.
• Intellectual curiosity: embrace the unknown, be ready to learn well beyond insurance and risk management, e.g. client's core business, opportunities, constraints and challenges; data & analytics new developments and applications, etc.

Professional Experience:

• Extensive proven experience of client relationship management or sales in the large corporate commercial insurance industry (insurance, broking, consulting).
• At least 2 - 3 year's experience in P&C Underwriting, preferably as a Property Underwriter
• Proficiency in capital markets instruments and corporate finance, with proven experience in engaging with CFOs and Treasurers.
• Track record of dealing with complex insurance and innovative risk financing transactions, incl. with (re)insurance captive companies and ART (alternative risk transfer) solutions.
• Broad industry network with key partners, including corporate risk managers, c-suite leaders, brokers, and insurance professionals
• Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and aligning multiple parties' interests, while always keeping the client needs at the centre.

Who We Are:
Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture:
We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold

• Strive for better

• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.
We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.
Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour

• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance

• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community

• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing

• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)

• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)

• LinkedIn Learning

• Mentorship program

• External qualification sponsorship

• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement

• Secondment assignments

General
It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere 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
• 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

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $150,000 - $200,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.
Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.
We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non-visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we'll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.