Consulting Director – Strategic Risk

Company:

Marsh

Description:

Consulting Director – Strategic Risk

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Strategic Risk Consulting team at Marsh UK. This role will be based in London (Tower Place). This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working three days a week in the office.

As our team takes on more and more complex cross-border work with multinationals and governments, we are seeking someone to work at Principal level among a team of consultants with backgrounds in Enterprise Risk, Resilience, Cyber, Climate and Strategy.  A key part of the tole is to sell and sponsor the delivery of complex inter-disciplinary projects across (several of) these areas. Working regularly with our sister company Oliver Wyman and others, we operate a highly collegiate approach to our work, with many repeat clients and a reputation for tackling the new challenges at e.g. the intersection of the climate and resilience agenda effectively at governmental, C-Suite and working level.

We will count on you to:

• Oversee sale and delivery of complex interdisciplinary projects, leveraging junior team effectively
• Identify, design and stand up new offerings and capabilities through to effective sale
• Identify and exploit synergies in our offerings as a result of your holistic understanding of the risk agenda
• Help us to develop the next generation of consultants as we grow our 50-strong team across both sales effectiveness and delivery

What you need to have: 

• Proven experience designing and leading delivery of complex projects at senior level, involving multi-disciplinary teams, ideally in a consulting environment
• Ability to ‘translate’ client questions to analytical questions to solve
• A desire to coach and develop the next generation of consultants
• Deep subject matter expertise in several areas of our capability remit (Enterprise Risk, Resilience, Cyber, Climate and Strategy)
• Comfort and familiarity operating in C-suite environments or equivalent
• A collegiate and results-focused approach: we succeed or fail as a team

What makes you stand out?

• Track record of thought leadership and/or recognised profile in one or more areas of our capability remit
• Ability to leverage expertise beyond your own through effective collaboration in order to meet client needs, while ensuring quality of delivery
• A collegiate and results-focused approach
• A combination of consulting and in-house roles that enable you to oversee and manage a team with authenticity

Why join our team:

• Competitive package including: pension contributions, private health insurance
• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $23 billion and more than 85,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, civil partnership status, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, 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. We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments in accordance with applicable law to any candidate with a disability to allow them to fully participate in the recruitment process. If you have a disability that may require reasonable adjustments, please contact us at reasonableaccommodations@mmc.com.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are