Technical Insurance Specialist – Placement

This is a new role in the Placement team that has been created to meet the growth and business targets for WTW across Corporate, Risk and Broking for the Pacific region. The successful candidate will be responsible for unpacking the policy wordings from insurers to ensure brokers and clients understand their intent, of new and market leading products, and manuscript coverage on behalf of clients.  Further, you will support the governance and best practice framework for contract reviews. The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills. This role can be based in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, or Perth.

The Role

You will apply your in-depth knowledge of policy contract wordings to:

• Be the subject matter expert across the various classes of insurance policies including property, general liability, motor, construction and financial lines
• Technical contribution to business initiatives and growth ambitions
• Review new insurer wordings and endorsements for use by our team for clients
• Draft manuscript wordings where applicable
• Develop and review WTW versions of key market wordings
• Engage with insurers, brokers and clients on technical policy interpretation
• Develop, support and maintain a governance framework for contract reviews
• Be the subject matter experts for contract reviews and escalation point as appropriate
• Leverage learnings from claims and performance of contracts to author timely relevant briefing papers and thought product leadership
• Lead technical training initiatives 
• Support deployment of AI tools 

The Requirements

• You possess strong market advocacy and client/carrier relationship development
• You have 2-3 years experience in insurance claims, product development or technical advisory
• You are an industry specialist and a trusted adviser
• Degree qualified preferably in Law
• As a critical thinker, you have attention to detail, and have ownership and team-oriented qualities
• Exceptional project management skills
• You have strong technical and analytical capabilities
• Your oral and written communication skills are outstanding 
• We'll love your drive, ambition and focus on excellence

Why Join WTW?

WTW provides a competitive benefits package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Annual bonus
• Company paid salary continuance insurance
• Life and TPD insurance 
• Hybrid working
• Networks (Gender, Wellbeing, Pride)
• Career Growth – internal opportunities and development programs

At WTW, we trust you to know your work and the people, tools and environment you need to be successful. The majority of our colleagues work in a "hybrid" style, with a mix of in-person and in-office interactions dependent on the needs of the team, role and clients. Our flexibility is rooted in trust and "hybrid" is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

We understand flexibility is key to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and so we encourage requests for all types of flexible working. Please speak to your recruiter to discuss more.

At WTW, we believe that a culture of inclusion and diversity is critical to our business. It's not a separate initiative – rather it's fundamental to everything we do. We are an equal-opportunity employer who is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and embrace diversity including gender, nationality, disability, age, marital/parental status, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual orientation. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds.  

In the spirit of reconciliation Willis Towers Watson acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. 

We're committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email