Head of Global Placement

**Head of Global Placement - New Zealand**

**Why Marsh?**

Marsh strongly believes in “Feeling comfortable bringing your whole self to work is a fundamental right of every colleague.” We offer the following benefits to our employees, so they feel valued each day at work:
- Work within a multi-national insurance broking and risk advisory company offering clients a wide range of specialist services
- Be part of a great team environment with sociable and supportive colleagues.
- Marsh welcomes all those who can help our shared enterprise to thrive. We are seeking capable, creative, and fair-minded people who can help us enable our clients’ success.
- Marsh believes that its greatest strength is the collective talent of our people. The more diverse our backgrounds and experiences are, the more we can achieve together. Be part of our shared enterprise to thrive.
- A modern and vibrant work environment with flexibility on office/home balance
- Work alongside a dedicated business development team
- Learning and development provided by some of the industry’s top professionals
- Professional environment where your career path really matters and is supported and encouraged by our global organisation
- Marsh is a global business offering high achievers the opportunity to transfer within our worldwide organisation.

**What can you expect?**

An amazing opportunity has become available for a strategic thinker and an inspiring leader to assume the role of Head of Global Placement
- New Zealand.

This role will focus on the leadership and strategic planning of our placement services team, delivery of strategic placement services for our key clients and raising the profile of Marsh within the market to ensure best results are delivered to our clients.

**We will count on you to**:

- Contribute to the preparation, management, implementation, and achievement of the team’s business plans and goals
- Plan and implement clear and effective renewal and broking strategies, ensuring renewal performance exceeds set targets
- Engender a positive and tenacious client retention and development focus by encouraging regular communication of client status and promptly addressing any client retention issues
- Formally review your team’s performance in accordance with Marsh’s programs and encourage and develop your team’s skills through on-the-job training, continuous performance feedback, external competency-based training and career feedback
- Maximise utilisation of Marsh’s national and global resources by maintaining and communicating to your team the facilities and capabilities available through Marsh and the wider MMC enterprise
- Ensure the team meets and exceeds service standards agreed in client service agreements
- Develop and maintain positive meaningful working relationships with insurers within local and global markets, ensuring Marsh clients achieve the best solution available
- Maximise team and account profitability through the implementation of efficient and effective work practices, adequate client billing and sensible expense control.
- Actively develop additional business from existing team portfolios in line with budget targets
- Personally comply with the Company's Errors and Omissions avoidance procedures and ensure that no Errors and Omissions occur within your team

**What you need to have**:

- Strong industry and placement experience
- Strong sales acumen and client management skills
- Ability to communicate at all levels
- Travel will be required

**What makes you stand out**:

- Post Graduate Management qualification or equivalent
- Senior Associate of ANZIIF
- Confident in communicating at all levels, a strategic thinker and an inspiring leader
- Ability to lead and encourage direct reports and peers to achieve desired outcomes
- Strong placement experience and market credibility

**Marsh McLennan**
- Successful applicants will be required to complete Criminal Record check prior to commencement of employment._

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their sex/gender, marital or parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

At Marsh we recognise that our people have different priorities and commitments. We are passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that supports all our employees in managing those priorities, and we celebrate the diversity of all the family groups that make up our extended Marsh family.