Head of Client & Business Strategy, Global Insurance & Institutional Asset Solutions

At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

About Franklin Templeton 

Franklin Templeton is a global investment management organization with a mission to help clients achieve better outcomes through investment excellence, long-term discipline, and deep global expertise. With offices in major financial markets around the world, the firm offers specialized expertise across equity, fixed income, alternatives, multi-asset solutions, and digital assets. 

Through its diverse investment managers and global distribution platform, Franklin Templeton serves individual investors, financial advisors, institutions, insurers, sovereign entities, and corporations. The firm combines the strength and resources of a global organization with the specialized expertise and agility of boutique investment teams. 

Position Summary 

Franklin Templeton is seeking a strategic and execution-focused Head of Client & Business Strategy to support Global Insurance & Institutional Asset Solutions (GIIAS). This is a senior leadership role responsible for driving alignment, operational excellence, and strategic integration across four core pillars of the business: 

• Insurance General Account 

• Official Institutions 

• Treasury Officers 

• Emerging Web3 Ecosystems 

This role will serve as a key partner to the Head of GIIAS, ensuring these four teams are effectively integrated with appropriate touch points across the broader Franklin Templeton organization and cohesively connected to each other under an ethos of best-in-class institutional investing. The Head of Client & Business Strategy will help streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and enable client-facing teams to maximize success with insurance companies, sovereign and public institutions, corporate treasury teams, and investors in digital assets. The ideal candidate will bring at least 15 years of experience in asset management, insurance leadership, institutional investment management, or related financial services fields. 

Key Responsibilities:

Client Strategy and Business Development Support 

• Work closely with head of GIIAS to drive strategic planning and research and work with client teams to help develop specific strategic client plans and targeting strategies. 

• Identify potential obstacles to the growth strategy and develop strategic initiatives to address or mitigate issues for implementation 

• Track, measure, perform impact assessments to enable the GIIAS team to refine strategy, as necessary and achieve maxim