Assistant Vice President, Transportation & Logistics

Assistant Vice President – Space Insurance

Location: Washington, DC. (Hybrid role)

Department: Specialty – Space

Overview

We are seeking an Assistant Vice President (Account Executive/Broker) to join our Space insurance team. This role focuses on advising clients, structuring placements, and negotiating coverage for complex space risks, including launch, in‑orbit, and third‑party liability exposures. You will work with satellite operators, manufacturers, launch providers, and financial stakeholders, partnering closely with other team members. You will also provide insurance export compliance support to our clientele.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a primary day‑to‑day contact for a portfolio of space clients, ensuring excellent service and timely delivery.
• Lead renewal strategy and placement from data collection through to binding, documentation, and ongoing service.
• Structure, negotiate, and place complex risks with local and international insurance/reinsurance markets.
• Build strong relationships with underwriters and monitor market capacity, pricing, and wording trends.
• Identify client needs and coverage gaps; recommend tailored risk transfer solutions.
• Draft and review market submissions, policy wordings, and endorsements.
• Support claim advocacy by helping interpret coverage and coordinate with underwriters and specialists.
• Contribute to new business development, RFP responses, and client presentations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Business, Economics, Law or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of insurance or reinsurance experience, ideally in specialty lines; experience in space, aviation, or other complex technical risks is a strong plus.
• Proven experience managing complex accounts and/or placing specialty risks in London, European, or international markets.
• Solid understanding of insurance principles, policy structures, and contract wordings.
• Familiarity with the space sector (satellite operations, launch services, manufacturing, or related areas) highly desirable.
• Knowledge of U.S. space export compliance regulations and experience with managing export compliance for space insurance exports to international insurance

Skills & Competencies

• Strong client relationship, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• High attention to detail and comfort working with technical and financial data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project‑management skills; able to manage multiple priorities.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solutions‑oriented, with high professional standards and integrity.

Additional Information

• Some domestic and international travel may be required.

If you share our interest in the space sector and delivering exceptional outcomes for clients, we’d like to hear from you.

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $100,000 - $135,000 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.

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.

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.

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