Senior Risk Consultant (Property Risk)

Company: Marsh

Description: Marsh is the world’s leading insurance broker and risk adviser. With more than 45,000 colleagues operating in more than 130 countries, Marsh serves commercial and individual clients with data-driven risk solutions and advisory services. Marsh is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the leading global professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people. With annual revenue of over $20 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. For more information, visit marshmclennan.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Position: Senior Risk Consultant (Property Risk)

What can you expect?

The core purpose of this role is Insurance Surveyor and Portfolio Management, focusing on risk assessment, underwriting surveys, and technical consulting for clients.

The incumbent will be allocated work in the form of consulting tasks aimed at helping clients identify, evaluate, and manage their risk while monitoring resilience levels by providing recommendations on tools, frameworks, protocols, and skills. The Portfolio Manager will report to the Managing Consultant and provide regular project updates.

What you will be rewarded with:

• An international well-established company with a strong brand and results;
• Opportunity to make a difference and work on both local and regional projects;
• Attractive benefits coverage, outstanding learning and mentoring programs, and internal mobility opportunities;
• Stable employment and a hybrid working model.

We will rely on you to:

• Conduct insurance mining risk surveying and report compilation with loss calculations and risk recommendations;
• Oversee peer review of technical and insurance consulting activities for group programs;
• Identify consulting opportunities and grow programs;
• Manage an annual work plan with each lead insurer regarding slip fees, including monthly progress meetings;
• Ensure activities are scheduled and completed by competent resources;
• Quality review outputs and prepare summaries for group feedback;
• Present findings and reports for client/divisional/corporate office meetings;
• Provide consulting inputs at politically sensitive or special need sites;
• Define and structure programs aligned to client’s key objectives;
• Work closely with stakeholders including brokers, external consultants, insurers, and regulatory bodies;
• Conduct SWOT analysis on each client and build a PRC risk mitigation program;
• Develop an opportunity matrix per account and build an implementation plan with revenue targets and milestones;
• Prepare client budgets and proposals, deliver client presentations, and conduct account profitability analysis;
• Manage invoicing instructions and project registrations;
• Complete time scheduling and sales funnel systems weekly;
• Meet agreed revenue targets for program renewals and new business.

What you need to have:

• Degree in Mining/Mechanical Engineering;
• FIISA/AIISA or FCII/ACII and/or related Assets Insurance certificates;
• 8 years demonstrable working experience (at least 3 in insurance);
• Good knowledge of Fire, Security, Occupational Health, and Safety;
• Advanced computer literacy, particularly in Excel;
• Ability to think creatively to solve client problems;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Exceptional people skills.

Qualifications required upon appointment:

• Insurance Exams (RE1);
• IRMSA Board Level 1;
• General Management course/diploma/degree;
• ISO45001 & ISO 14001 course;
• Nebosch/BTech Safety Management;
• IFE/SAESI Fire Grad;
• MAP/MDP.

What makes you stand out:

• Project management experience;
• Solid knowledge of Insurance Underwriting and surveying, including Construction, Occupancy, and exposure analysis;
• Exceptional people skills.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, 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.