Vice President Risk Management Jobs in Morton Grove, IL

The Vice President, Risk Consulting is a senior leadership role responsible for developing, scaling, and leading a highimpact risk control function that delivers measurable risk improvement for clients while supporting revenue growth and retention.

• This individual will combine deep technical expertise in risk control with a proven ability to build teams, develop clientfacing solutions, and partner closely with commercial leaders to drive growth. 

• A core focus of this role is to expand the delivery of Risk Control services across all Gallagher Bassett customer segments and to increase adoption and utilization of Risk Control offerings within the existing client base.
• The role will work closely with client, sales, and operations leaders to embed risk control as a differentiated, valuecreating component of Gallagher Bassett’s solutions—demonstrating clear impact on loss performance, total cost of risk, and client outcomes. 
• This role requires a datadriven leader who leverages analytics, loss data, and performance metrics to guide strategy, prioritize initiatives, measure effectiveness, and clearly articulate the value of risk control services. The successful candidate will use data to inform decision-making, support continuous improvement, and strengthen the linkage between risk control activities and financial and operational results.
• The successful candidate will be both a strategic leader and handson expert—capable of setting vision, mentoring talent, and translating risk insights and data into practical, scalable solutions across diverse clients and industries. 

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Required Skills and Qualifications

• Experience: Generally, requires 10+ years of experience in risk control, insurance underwriting, or safety management, with a proven record of leadership.
• Education: A bachelor’s degree in risk management, safety and health, engineering, or a related field is typically required.
• Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of P&C (Property & Casualty) insurance, OSHA compliance, and safety standards.
• Professional Designations: Preferred designations include CSP (Certified Safety Professional), ARM (Associate in Risk Management), or CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter).
• Leadership & Communication: Strong ability to manage remote consultants (internal and external), influence cross-functional partners such as captive and pool managers, brokers, and clients.
• Budget Management: Assist in developing annual budget and managing resources to deliver business expectations. Monitor consultant workload, assignments, and quality of service offerings.   

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Experience: Generally, requires 10+ years of experience in risk control, insurance underwriting, or safety management, with a proven record of leadership.
• Education: A bachelor’s degree in risk management, safety and health, engineering, or a related field is typically required.
• Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of P&C (Property & Casualty) insurance, OSHA compliance, and safety standards.
• Professional Designations: Preferred designations include CSP (Certified Safety Professional), ARM (Associate in Risk Management), or CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter).
• Leadership & Communication: Strong ability to manage remote consultants (internal and external), influence cross-functional partners such as captive and pool managers, brokers, and clients.
• Budget Management: Assist in developing annual budget and managing resources to deliver business expectations. Monitor consultant workload, assignments, and quality of service offerings.