Job Description
Builder's Risk Strategic Lead – RISC | C&I
Are you ready to build the future of Builder's Risk strategy within Construction & Infrastructure? Do you bring deep technical expertise, claims insight, and the ability to lead high-impact client engagements from pre-placement through loss?
Our Construction & Infrastructure Group is seeking a Builder's Risk Strategic Lead for our Risk, Insight, Strategy & Claims (RISC) team. This is a differentiated platform built to elevate client outcomes through coordinated advisory, claims strategy, and technical excellence.
This role can be located anywhere in the U.S.
Aon is in the business of better decisions
At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive team and are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
What the day will look like
As the senior technical and strategic authority on Builder's Risk within RISC, you guide claims insight and coverage expertise. You also advise client strategy to achieve outstanding outcomes across complex construction programs.
You will operate at the intersection of placement, claims, and advisory. Your mandate includes engaging clients early, developing program plans, and elevating Aon's market differentiation.
Core responsibilities:
- Lead the strategy and claims advisory for Builder's Risk coverage on complex construction and infrastructure projects, including project-specific and portfolio structures
- Take on the role of a core RISC advisor, helping define claims strategy, risk approach, and coverage philosophy for key clients
- Become a key resource for critical issues in complex BR matters for major clients with key carrier partners.
- Provide advanced proficiency in Builder's Risk, including DSU (Delay in Start-Up), soft costs, phased turnover, and emerging exposures
- Engage early in the client lifecycle (pre-placement / pre-inception) to influence insurer selection, program structure, and coverage design
- Integrate claims intelligence into placement decisions, improving policy performance and loss outcomes
- Partner with C&I leadership, Account Executives, and RISC to ensure alignment between strategy and execution of claims handling
- Support high-value client relationships, providing senior-level mentorship across risk, placement, and claims matters
- Serve as a key contributor to new business pursuits, positioning RISC's differentiated capabilities to win and retain clients
- Provide clear, executive-level communication, translating technical complexity into actionable client insight
- Contribute to cross-line collaboration (property, liability, SDI, PL) to deliver solutions that are effectively coordinated
- Drive innovation through analytics, and program design enhancements
How this opportunity is different
This position is not a traditional broker role—it involves strategic leadership within RISC, where impact is defined by:
- Shaping claims strategy, not just responding to claims
- Influencing program design before risk attaches
- Operating as a senior relationship leader for high-profile clients
- Bringing to bear multi-line expertise and cross-functional collaboration
- Serving as a core differentiator in Aon's go-to-market strategy for construction clients
This role is central to how Aon wins new business, deepens client relationships, and delivers industry-leading outcomes in Construction & Infrastructure.
Skills and experience that will lead to success
- 7+ years of commercial insurance experience with a strong focus on construction property and Builder's Risk coverage
- Experience supporting large-scale or complex projects (e.g., infrastructure, data centers, major developments) preferred
- Experience with claims strategy or claims advocacy strongly preferred
- Extensive technical knowledge in Builder's Risk, encompassing DSU and complex construction exposures
- Strong understanding of claims strategy, loss drivers, and policy response in construction environments
- Consistent track record to act as a trusted, senior-level client advisor
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills capable of simplifying complex technical issues
- Proven experience with large, complex claims and negotiations
- Ability to integrate claims, and advisory perspectives into a unified strategy
- Strong collaboration skills across claims, advisory, analytics and broking
- Ability to operate effectively in a high-profile, collaborative environment
- Commercial competence with focus on growth, retention, and new business development
Education: Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or related field (or equivalent experience). Property & Casualty license required (or willingness to obtain within 120 days)
Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon's discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.
Pay Transparency Laws:
The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $162,500 - $250,000 annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.
The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different geographic location.
This position is eligible to participate in one of Aon's annual incentive plans to receive an annual discretionary bonus in addition to base salary. The amount of any bonus varies and is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan.
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