Regional Underwriting Lead Asia and Pacific – Fast Track Team

Company:

Marsh Risk

Description:

R_358405 – Regional Underwriting Lead Asia and Pacific – Fast Track Team

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Portfolio Solutions Fast Track team at Marsh Risk. This role will be based in London, Norwich or Birmingham. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.

The Regional Underwriting Lead is responsible for leading the Regional Underwriting Team and for owning the APAC region. The role focuses on building local market relationships, identifying opportunities to improve the Fast Track offering, and supporting the placement of complex or bespoke risks.

The role will help ensure that the Fast Track offering supports local placement needs where possible, including developing of evolved authority levels, and shepherding nuanced cases through to binding.

The role works closely with regional placement teams, Account Manager teams, and other internal stakeholders to understand market nuances, identify areas for development in the Fast Track offering, and help shepherd large or complex risks through the placement process.

We will count on you to:

• Support the Regional Underwriting Lead in delivering regional growth focused on Asia & Pacific.

• Build strong relationships with regional placement teams and relevant stakeholders.

• Identify market nuances and opportunities that could improve Fast Track’s regional offering.

• Support the handling of bespoke and complex placements, including shepherding larger risks through the process.

• Work closely with Account Manager teams to identify and progress business opportunities.

• Support initial client discussions through to placement completion for key risks.

• Contribute to regional insight, pipeline development, and execution of growth priorities.

What you need to have:

• Background in underwriting, placement, or regional market support.

• Strong understanding of Asia-Pacific market dynamics is desirable.

• Good communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

• Proactive and adaptable

• Strong relationship builder

• Confident working across time zones and markets

What makes you stand out?

• Ability to support complex placement activity.

• Commercially aware and detail-oriented.

• Commercial and solution focused

• Collaborative and reliable

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.

Marsh Risk is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information about Marsh Risk, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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@marsh.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.