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    Manager (Portfolio Manager) - London, United Kingdom - Howden Group

    Howden Group
    Howden Group London, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Whatever your priorities – work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering - you'll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

    Howden Markets provide the infrastructure, advice and business support to deliver sustainable, best in class placement solutions and drive carrier / market engagement to ensure best outcomes for Howden and its clients.

    The individual will work with senior members of the department to develop, deliver and manage specific portfolio solutions for Howden UK&Ireland 'UK&I', Howden Specialty and International – in line with the Howden Markets strategy to build and maintain strategic insurer relationships, grow and retain profitable business whilst ensuring that budget/targets are met or exceeded.

    They will act as a supervisor/role model to other members of the team and as the team grows in size, are likely to be given staffing responsibilities, particularly related to the development and build-out of strategic data and reporting.

    To be a driving force for Placement Advisory planning, management and execution, in liaison with business stakeholders and to deliver exceptional Portfolio management, meeting agreed goals on time and within budget.

    Additionally, they are responsible for ensuring that day to day activities operate in accordance with applicable Company and/or Group policies to achieve targets, develop the business and deliver an excellent and comprehensive service.


    Planning and Strategy:
    Helps to define Placement Advisory plans, scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
    Manages assigned projects and contributes to other project, as required
    Provides relevant management information to senior management, as required

    Owns and manages operations of the Portfolio, designs the plan of work for each phase of the project from idea, design, execution and management.

    Creates good practices, tools and processes for Portfolio management and helps ensure that indicated standards are being followed
    Identifies risks, highlighting these to relevant parties in good time and ensuring mitigating action is taken
    Measures Portfolio performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
    Creates Portfolio reports against indicated key performance metrics to support data-driven decision making process

    Execute/deliver Master Service Agreements (MSA's) with strategic insurers and deliver against key performance indicators (KPI's) in accordance with service schedules.


    Policy, Process and Procedures:
    Keep informed of all legal and regulatory developments relevant to the Company/Group
    Interprets instructions and issues arising, and then implement actions according to policies and procedures
    Regional Offices, Business Producers, Brokers, Legal Counsel, Compliance, Audit, Accounts, Claims and Administration) and external contacts (e.g. Through networking, introduces business to other divisions, acting as a key contact in order to grow relationships.
    Remains aware of the market e.g.

    competitors, potential changes/risks to ensure practices and outputs are of a sufficiently high standard and contribute to the identification of opportunities and business growth.

    Displays and instils a positive, highly-collaborative agile mindset and customer-centric culture
    Remains aware of external, industry, legal and regulatory developments to ensure practice and outputs are of a sufficiently high standard
    Awareness of the regulatory environment and requirements including e.g. FCA rules, data protection, money laundering, specific standards of insureds' professional bodies
    Highly organised, with good planning/prioritisation/time management skills
    Able to positively react to change
    Overseeing colleagues and offering help when required to resolve issues
    GCSEs or equivalent including English and Maths essential
    Prince2, AMP, PMP, MSP, CII Certified etc.) We've travelled far since opening our first office in 1994. Back then we were local experts – based in London, with direct access to the world's biggest insurance market. We're still locals, and we still deliver the right advice and the right insurance to our clients. But now, we're local all over the world.

    With 15,000 global colleagues and a partner network spanning more than 100 territories, we are the largest independent insurance broker in the world.

    Our flat structure and entrepreneurial spirit help us attract the best people and empower them to be the best version of themselves.

    Diversity & Inclusion

    At Howden we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

    Permanent In November 1994, David Howden founded a business that was literally the smallest insurance broker in the world.

    A minority external investor with a long-term outlook
    3 friends (and a dog)
    A commitment to building a business with independence enshrined in its fabric

    Today, the business has a global footprint of more than 14,500 employees in 50 countries spanning Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas.

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