Director, Risk Advisory

Introduction

At Artex, we reimagine risk management with bold thinking, deep expertise, and a belief in what’s possible. As part of our global team, you’ll help clients navigate complex risks through creative, forward‑looking solutions that go beyond the expected. We’re a community of curious problem‑solvers, opportunity seizers, and collaborative thinkers, working together to challenge convention and shape the future of our industry.

Here, you’ll be supported to explore your potential, grow your expertise, and make a meaningful impact on a global scale.

The Director, Risk Solutions is responsible for managing client accounts, executing on risk strategies, and ensuring quality delivery of services to optimize our clients’ total cost of risk. The Director, Risk Solutions leads and develops a team of risk analysts as they partner with clients to implement strategies, complete the annual risk management processes, negotiate third‑party agreements, manage client documentation, and fulfill reporting requirements.

• Act as the day‑to‑day point of contact for all assigned clients to ensure the delivery of quality services to optimize total cost of risk.
• Manage the tactical aspects of client engagements for large and complex clients.
• Collaborate with and foster partnerships between clients, brokers, underwriters, internal claims management and risk management teams and other parties to manage the annual risk management process for large and complex clients.
• Execute on defined risk strategies.
• Ensure client reporting is completed in a timely manner and provides the type and level of information needed for quality decision making.
• Lead and oversee due diligence and integration activities for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Expand risk management knowledge and skills by participating in thought leadership and deepening specialized knowledge about topics including business continuity planning and enterprise risk management.
• Lead and manage a team of senior risk analysts, and/or risk analysts to ensure quality control throughout their base of assigned clients.
• Define team goals, track progress, and manage activities to achieve goals.
• Develop Senior Associates and Associate skills and knowledge by educating and training them on intent and process of completing tasks.
• Delegate work in a manner that promotes increasing responsibility over time and a balanced workload across team members.
• Set performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and conduct employee performance reviews.
• Create a team‑based environment that reinforces the company’s values of intelligence, integrity, consistency, energy, advocacy, service and respect.

Required:

Bachelor's degree and 6 years experience in safety and loss control. Must have valid driver’s license and dependable automobile transportation available. Required to survey client properties; entails negotiating non‑public access areas, climbing, lifting, sitting, standing and walking.

Preferred:
Associate in Risk Management (ARM),
Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)

Behaviors:
Able to effectively prioritize assignments. Good interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills. Detail oriented.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get: medical/dental/vision plans, life and accident insurance, 401(K) and Roth options, tax‑advantaged accounts, educational expense reimbursement, paid parental leave.

Other benefits include:
Digital mental health services, flexible work hours, training programs, Gallagher Thrive program, charitable matching gift program, and more.

Inclusion and diversity is a core part of our business and embedded in the fabric of our organization. Gallagher embraces employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve clients and communities. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer‑employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. 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.