Broker Support – Life Reinsurance Broking

The Role

This is a newly created role supporting the launch and growth of a specialist Life reinsurance broking venture. The Operations Manager will build and maintain the operating framework that enables transactions to move efficiently from initial opportunity through placement, implementation and ongoing administration.

Working closely with the Head of Life Reinsurance Broking, the role will coordinate activity across Legal, Compliance and Risk, Client Administration, Analytics, and client and reinsurer counterparties. It will bring structure, pace and visibility to each live opportunity by helping define process timetables, clarify responsibilities, track approvals and maintain accurate status reporting.

The role will also be responsible for strengthening operational discipline across onboarding, documentation and governance. This includes coordinating client, reinsurer and transaction onboarding requirements; maintaining auditable records of approvals, market lists, confidentiality arrangements, data-room access, conflicts checks and compliance sign-offs; and ensuring that jurisdictional, regulatory and internal process requirements are captured in practical checklists and operating procedures.

About You

You will bring experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services operations, transaction support, programme management, client administration or a related regulated environment. Strong organisational skills are essential, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, documents and stakeholders simultaneously while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.

The successful candidate will understand confidentiality, data protection, compliance and controlled information-sharing requirements, and will be confident working with senior stakeholders, technical specialists, clients, reinsurers and external advisers. The role requires clear written and verbal communication, practical judgement and a willingness to help build scalable processes in a new and evolving business.

Prior experience supporting reinsurance placement, treaty administration, broking operations, actuarial consulting projects or capital-related insurance transactions would be valuable. Familiarity with Life insurance products, reinsurance structures, bordereaux, claims administration, treaty documentation, reinsurer due-diligence processes, international projects and operating-procedure design would also be advantageous. Personally, you will be highly organised, proactive, commercially aware, discreet with confidential information and able to impose structure on ambiguity without over-engineering.

About Willis Re

We combine specialist broking with analytics, modeling and research to help insurers optimize risk transfer, strengthen balance sheets and achieve sustainable growth. Our approach is relationship-driven, transparent and outcome-focused.

At the heart of Willis Re is a focus on delivering the most cutting-edge analytical solutions to enable more informed, better decision-making for risk selection, portfolio optimization, and capital management.

The launch of Willis Re brings a strategic advantage of being unhindered by legacy, an ability to leverage data, statistical models and advanced technologies with the best knowledge and expertise to deliver more efficient and effective reinsurance outcomes. This places Willis Re in a unique position to build a truly analytically driven business, focused on creating solutions for the reinsurance industry that are future led and forward thinking.

Willis Re will also leverage recognized technical expertise from WTW’s Insurance Consulting & Technology business including their advanced modeling and analytical capabilities. Alongside this will be WTW’s Research Network, an award-winning business supporting and influencing science to improve the understanding and quantification of risk.

Willis Re is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, orientation, or any other legally protected categories. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please email us at [email protected]