Associate Partner - London, United Kingdom - Aon

Aon

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Associate Partner - DC Investment Consultant (UK Wide)

Aon is currently recruiting an Associate Partner - DC Investment Consultant to join our growing team in the UK.

You will be primarily responsible for contributing to Aon's relationship with clients through day-to-day management, development, and retention of a portfolio of clients.

The UK pensions landscape is evolving at a rapid pace.

Economic challenges, legislative change, an ageing population, and asset volatility pose a wide variety of risks and challenges to pension schemes.

Trustees and scheme sponsors are faced with a range of decisions on difficult topics from leading risk to improving member engagement, setting an investment strategy to running DC plans.

Aon Retirement Solutions' market-leading capabilities and award-winning expertise make us the perfect partner to help clients through their pension challenges.

We can provide integrated and comprehensive solutions across actuarial, plan administration, investment, and insurance disciplines, enabling us to serve our clients' unique needs every step of the way.

As an Associate Partner - DC Investment Consultanting your key responsibilities will involve:
Understanding and focus on good member outcomes and working with clients to achieve this goal
Using your strong technical investment knowledge and experience to proactively build the investment expertise within the team, through training and mentoring of more junior colleagues as necessary
Leading relationships with clients (large to mid-market), with accountability for developing those relationships, for example through introducing additional services
Directing large client projects (e.g. investment strategy reviews and asset transitions)
Overall responsibility for quality of technical work delivered to clients
Strong participation in meetings externally and internally (showing role model behaviours)
Contribute to the thought leadership and future strategy of the business (e.g. leading a specialist team or driving new propositions)
Strong focus on growth and securing new business, experience of prospecting for new business and leading client pitches

The DC team is represented in several offices around the UK, and it is expected that your role would involve working with teams and advising clients across all of them.

You bring knowledge and expertise:
Track record in leading client relationships
Experience in winning new business and strong focus on growing the client base and revenue
Self-motivating and ambitious.
FCA approved status.
Able to encourage and develop other colleagues, and work well within diverse teams.

A willingness to learn and understand DC pension vehicles, applicable regulatory and legislative rules, main asset classes and investment theory.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and comfortable advising key client collaborators at a strategic level
Consistently acts with the highest integrity and professional standards.

Experience advising clients on some or all:
DC investment strategy
DC products and investment platforms
Asset transitions
Fund manager recommendations
Ongoing monitoring
DC scheme investment governance
Compliance with regulatory requirements and changes in legislation
Every day, our colleagues make a difference, work with the best, own their potential, and value one another.

Together, we share this one purpose:
to empower economic and human possibility around the world. This unifying goal is at the heart of our identity, and it lives in everything we do. To learn more about our colleague experience, visit Aon Colleague Experience. About Aon

Aon plc (NYSE:
AON) is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions.

Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.

How we support our colleagues
In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce.

Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon.

Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself.

We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work..

and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working
Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.
Aon values an innovative, diverse workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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