Associate Director - Strategy and Execution - Facultative Reinsurance
Aon, New York, NY, United States
This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work both virtually and from our New York City or Norwalk, CT offices.
What The Day Will Look Like The Associate Director - Strategy and Execution (S&E) plays a pivotal role in shaping, driving, and operationalising Aon’s Facultative growth agenda across the United States. Acting as a strategic advisor, connector, and execution catalyst, this role ensures that global Facultative strategy, priorities, and frameworks are translated into actionable, measurable, and regionally relevant outcomes.
The leader partners closely with US regional leadership, line of business leaders, and global S&E partners to build and deliver coherent growth strategies, enable disciplined execution across key initiatives, and embed consistent ways of working that accelerate commercial impact.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with the US leadership teams to define and refine the strategic direction for the US Facultative business.
Translate the global Facultative strategic imperatives into region specific priorities, ensuring full alignment with US Reinsurance growth plans.
Assess market trends, client needs, and competitive positioning to inform strategic focus areas and investment decisions.
Establish and maintain governance structures that enable disciplined execution and strong accountability across strategic initiatives.
Coordinate annual and quarterly business planning cycles, including objective setting, progress tracking, and performance reviews.
Partner with global S&E to ensure consistent application of frameworks, tools, and success metrics.
Lead the regional execution roadmap for Facultative critical initiatives, ensuring projects are well-defined, resourced, and delivered on time with measurable outcomes.
Drive cross functional delivery by coordinating with Broking, Product, Data & Analytics, ABS, Finance, People, Legal & Compliance, and other support functions.
Remove barriers to progress, call out risks, and ensure strong decision making cadence.
Serve as the strategic connector between the US Facultative business, regional specialty lines and global S&E teams.
Align US priorities with enterprise wide initiatives, including cross pillar programs, client experience enhancements, and global capability builds.
Promote consistency of messaging and approach across US offices and Facultative subsegments.
Partner with Data & Analytics and business leadership to create transparency into performance drivers, indicators, trading dynamics, and growth opportunities.
Use analytics and insights to support decision making, prioritisation, and course correction across initiatives.
Provide structured reporting to US leadership, global S&E, and executive partners.
Skills And Experience That Will Lead To Success
Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, a related field or equivalent years of industry experience.
2+ years of experience working in Commercial Insurance, Reinsurance, Financial Data, Project Management or a related field.
Deep understanding of Facultative Reinsurance, the US marketplace, and client needs.
Proven track record leading or supporting critical initiatives within a complex global organisation.
Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leadership and cross functional teams.
Experience with disciplined execution frameworks, change management, or transformation programs strongly preferred.
Strong project and program leadership, including governance, structuring, and change management.
Natural connector with the ability to drive alignment across regions, functions, and solution lines.
Data driven orientation with ability to interpret insights and guide decision making.
Success Measures
Delivery of US aligned growth initiatives on time and with measurable commercial impact.
Clarity, adoption, and consistency of S&E frameworks across US Facultative teams.
Improved connectivity between US and global Facultative strategies, processes, and messaging.
Strong leadership feedback on effectiveness, influence, and ability to simplify complexity.
Enhanced visibility and performance insights enabling better prioritisation and decision-making.
Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full‑time and regular part‑time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long‑term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short‑term disability and optional long‑term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $115,000 to $150,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.
This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.
Job ID: 2577330
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What The Day Will Look Like The Associate Director - Strategy and Execution (S&E) plays a pivotal role in shaping, driving, and operationalising Aon’s Facultative growth agenda across the United States. Acting as a strategic advisor, connector, and execution catalyst, this role ensures that global Facultative strategy, priorities, and frameworks are translated into actionable, measurable, and regionally relevant outcomes.
The leader partners closely with US regional leadership, line of business leaders, and global S&E partners to build and deliver coherent growth strategies, enable disciplined execution across key initiatives, and embed consistent ways of working that accelerate commercial impact.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with the US leadership teams to define and refine the strategic direction for the US Facultative business.
Translate the global Facultative strategic imperatives into region specific priorities, ensuring full alignment with US Reinsurance growth plans.
Assess market trends, client needs, and competitive positioning to inform strategic focus areas and investment decisions.
Establish and maintain governance structures that enable disciplined execution and strong accountability across strategic initiatives.
Coordinate annual and quarterly business planning cycles, including objective setting, progress tracking, and performance reviews.
Partner with global S&E to ensure consistent application of frameworks, tools, and success metrics.
Lead the regional execution roadmap for Facultative critical initiatives, ensuring projects are well-defined, resourced, and delivered on time with measurable outcomes.
Drive cross functional delivery by coordinating with Broking, Product, Data & Analytics, ABS, Finance, People, Legal & Compliance, and other support functions.
Remove barriers to progress, call out risks, and ensure strong decision making cadence.
Serve as the strategic connector between the US Facultative business, regional specialty lines and global S&E teams.
Align US priorities with enterprise wide initiatives, including cross pillar programs, client experience enhancements, and global capability builds.
Promote consistency of messaging and approach across US offices and Facultative subsegments.
Partner with Data & Analytics and business leadership to create transparency into performance drivers, indicators, trading dynamics, and growth opportunities.
Use analytics and insights to support decision making, prioritisation, and course correction across initiatives.
Provide structured reporting to US leadership, global S&E, and executive partners.
Skills And Experience That Will Lead To Success
Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, a related field or equivalent years of industry experience.
2+ years of experience working in Commercial Insurance, Reinsurance, Financial Data, Project Management or a related field.
Deep understanding of Facultative Reinsurance, the US marketplace, and client needs.
Proven track record leading or supporting critical initiatives within a complex global organisation.
Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leadership and cross functional teams.
Experience with disciplined execution frameworks, change management, or transformation programs strongly preferred.
Strong project and program leadership, including governance, structuring, and change management.
Natural connector with the ability to drive alignment across regions, functions, and solution lines.
Data driven orientation with ability to interpret insights and guide decision making.
Success Measures
Delivery of US aligned growth initiatives on time and with measurable commercial impact.
Clarity, adoption, and consistency of S&E frameworks across US Facultative teams.
Improved connectivity between US and global Facultative strategies, processes, and messaging.
Strong leadership feedback on effectiveness, influence, and ability to simplify complexity.
Enhanced visibility and performance insights enabling better prioritisation and decision-making.
Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full‑time and regular part‑time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long‑term incentive awards at Aon’s discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short‑term disability and optional long‑term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $115,000 to $150,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant’s education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant’s geographic location.
This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon’s annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.
Job ID: 2577330
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