Senior Structuring and Origination Lead, Insurance-Linked Securities - Gallagher

Join us at Gallagher Re, the trailblazers of the reinsurance world, where every day brings new opportunities to shape the future. We empower our clients with cutting-edge analytics and insights, providing them the confidence to make strategic decisions that transform industries. As a team member, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, translating data into impactful solutions and taking the reins of your career like never before.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Gallagher Re is one of the world’s leading reinsurance advisory and broking firms. We bring together sophisticated analytics capabilities, risk transfer and transactional expertise to provide advice and counsel to our clients. We help our clients interpret the data to guide their decisions surrounding the management of their risk portfolio. 

The Business: Investment, Risk and Reinsurance

Our sophisticated approach to risk helps clients free up capital. We work in close concert with investors, reinsurers, and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return.  Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance.

This is a Senior Structuring and Origination Lead in Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS).  You will be part of a strategically critical effort in ILS.

The ILS team structures, originates, and distributes ILS and associated solutions on a global basis.   We aim to efficiently connect risk with capital both by using today’s ILS tools and by innovating to develop even better ILS solutions for tomorrow.   The ILS team works side-by-side with our reinsurance intermediary colleagues to deliver ILS solutions for clients as well as to develop the ILS business of the future for Gallagher Re.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate closely with reinsurance brokers in a multi-year and multiproduct sales process
• Work with brokers to understand how and when ILS solutions in particular and alternative capital more broadly creates value for Gallagher Re clients and prospects
• Work closely with brokers and others to deliver ILS and alternative capital solutions to clients and prospects
• Communicate and interact effectively with brokers, clients, and deal team members
• Prepare and edit presentations and other materials for clients
• Drive transaction execution and communication with clients and brokers on execution
• Manage several projects at once with careful attention to detail
• Help supervise, recruit, train and retain less experienced staff members
• Analyze reinsurance and capital structures both on a quantitative and qualitative basis
• Prepare and edit written content for publications as part of the sales process
• Coordinate closely with ILS sales and trading
• Support new profitable product development in furtherance of client value creation

• Strong written and oral communications skills
• A track record of successful origination, focused on ILS
• Exceptional focus and attention to details
• Well-developed project management skills
• Combination of strong quantitative and analytical skills
• Demonstrated skill in identifying and solving complex problems
• Assertiveness, initiative (self-starter), leadership, strong work ethic, team focus
• Strong interest in in the (re)insurance / capital markets industry
• 6 years or more of hands-on ILS experience as a securities professional including structuring and executing a minimum of 20 or more completed ILS transactions and 10 or more underwritten Rule 144A cat bonds
• Appropriate securities licenses required

About Gallagher Securities

Gallagher Securities, part of Gallagher Re, is a boutique securities firm focused on insurance-linked securities, capital raising, and merger and acquisitions advisory services for the insurance sector. Gallagher Securities currently has broker-dealers based in New York, London, and Paris. 

The ILS team structures, places and trades cat bonds, sidecars, and related solutions. Our team has executed over 200 transactions comprising in excess of $40 billion in aggregate deal value on a worldwide basis.  We currently have broker-dealers based in New York, London, and Paris.  

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On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

 Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
• Life and accident insurance
• 401(K) and Roth options
• Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
• Educational expense reimbursement
• Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

• Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
• Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
• Training programs
• Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
• Charitable matching gift program
• And more...

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.