Oliver james benelux team
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About Us Key contacts - Benelux team The way we work Oliver James Associates is a specialist recruitment partner to the Financial Services sector. Our Actu- arial desk was set up in 2005 and since then has become the largest and most successful specialist Actuarial team in the marketplace. We have genuine global coverage with offices in the UK, Conti- nental Europe and Asia. Our team of 30 international consultants speak multiple languages and have an in-depth technical understanding of the Actuarial profession and appreciate the key nuances that affect gobal recruitment plans. Our success in this field is hugely based on trust. We operate differently to many of our peers by en- couraging openness and honesty. Although our ultimate goal is obviously to fulfil the recruitment need, our long-term aim is to build strong and lasting relationships. Our consultants are always straightfor- ward and candid and will ultimately save you time. The business continues to go from strength-to-strength hav- ing recently been named for the third time on the Virgin Fast Track 100, ranked 1 st Fast 50, ranked 5 th on the HOT 100 and being named Best Banking/ Financial Recruitment Agency at the Recruiter Awards for Excellence. www.ojassociates.com Follow us: oliver-james-associates @OJAssociates.com Company: Aon Benfield Position: Account Director Last year we successfully placed an Actuarial Account Director for Re- insurance Broker AON Benfield. The difficulty of this search was com- bined requirement of both Reinsurance knowledge within the Dutch market as well as a broad skill set in the Life, Pension and Health area. On top of that, the ideal candidate would combine top quality actuarial skills with a good sense of commerciality and ability to build new business. With our accurate executive search method, 12 years’ experience within the actuarial field and unprecedented local market knowledge we were able to exceed AON’s expectations. As we strive to build long term relationships with actuaries and have been doing so from the start, we have a meticulously mapped overview of the local market and the specific details to understand what we would need to offer to an actuary in job content and to entice and interest them in making their next career step. With this experience we were able to produce a high calibre shortlist for AON Benfield. Within 2 weeks we were able to produce an overview of the market and introduced the top 4 to further interviews with AON Benfield. Within a month we were able to successfully place a candidate. Company: Ageas Position: Chief Risk Officer Ageas approached us for the recruitment of a Chief Risk Officer with¬in one of their operating companies. They were specifically looking for someone who could strengthen the local actuarial team of the newly acquired joint venture and who would be able to adhere to the best interests of the Group. With willingness to learn the local language, Solvency II experience and a wealth of non-life experi¬ence it was going to be a challenging search that would take us in to the whole of Europe & Asia to search for the right talent. The successful candidate would likely have to relocate to take this role for a minimum period of 3 years. We value our knowledge of the markets and constantly invest in keeping our information updated and were consequently able to come up with a long list of candidates within a month. After a further intake with the CEO we started pitching the role to our contacts, after another 8 weeks we had presented 11 Non-Life CRO’s, had 5 people in interviews and within a month we were able to successfully fulfil the search. Awards Julien Fabius Manager Tel: +31 (0) 20 716 84 50 +32 (0) 2888 6051 Email: [email protected] Julien specialises in representing Actuaries in the Benelux insurance market across Life, General Insurance, Pensions and Investments, in both industry and consulting clients. Niels van Nieuwkerk Tel: +31 (0)20 716 8327 Email: [email protected] Consultant Niels specialises in representing Actuaries in the Dutch insurance market, he is originally from Holland and a former organisational change consultant so thoroughly understands the culture of the Dutch marketplace. Laurence Baken Tel: +32 (0)2 401 2249 Email: [email protected] Consultant Laurence specialises in representing Actuaries in the Belgium insurance market, she is originally from Belgium and consequently has an in-depth understanding of the Belgian market. Case Studies +44 (0) 207 649 9466 +44 (0)207 310 8583 +44 (0)207 310 8549
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About Us
Key contacts - Benelux team
The way we work
Oliver James Associates is a specialist recruitment partner to the Financial Services sector. Our Actu-arial desk was set up in 2005 and since then has become the largest and most successful specialist Actuarial team in the marketplace. We have genuine global coverage with offices in the UK, Conti-nental Europe and Asia. Our team of 30 international consultants speak multiple languages and have an in-depth technical understanding of the Actuarial profession and appreciate the key nuances that affect gobal recruitment plans.
Our success in this field is hugely based on trust. We operate differently to many of our peers by en-couraging openness and honesty. Although our ultimate goal is obviously to fulfil the recruitment need, our long-term aim is to build strong and lasting relationships. Our consultants are always straightfor-ward and candid and will ultimately save you time.
The business continues to go from strength-to-strength hav-ing recently been named for the third time on the Virgin Fast Track 100, ranked 1st Fast 50, ranked 5th on the HOT 100 and being named Best Banking/Financial Recruitment Agency at the Recruiter Awards for Excellence.
www.ojassociates.com
Follow us: [email protected]
Company: Aon Benfield Position: Account Director
Last year we successfully placed an Actuarial Account Director for Re-insurance Broker AON Benfield. The difficulty of this search was com-bined requirement of both Reinsurance knowledge within the Dutch market as well as a broad skill set in the Life, Pension and Health area. On top of that, the ideal candidate would combine top quality actuarial skills with a good sense of commerciality and ability to build new business. With our accurate executive search method, 12 years’ experience within the actuarial field and unprecedented local market knowledge we were able to exceed AON’s expectations. As we strive to build long term relationships with actuaries and have been doing so from the start, we have a meticulously mapped overview of the local market and the specific details to understand what we would need to offer to an actuary in job content and to entice and interest them in making their next career step. With this experience we were able to produce a high calibre shortlist for AON Benfield. Within 2 weeks we were able to produce an overview of the market and introduced the top 4 to further interviews with AON Benfield. Within a month we were able to successfully place a candidate.
Company: Ageas
Position: Chief Risk Officer
Ageas approached us for the recruitment of a Chief Risk Officer with¬in one of their operating companies. They were specifically looking for someone who could strengthen the local actuarial team of the newly acquired joint venture and who would be able to adhere to the best interests of the Group. With willingness to learn the local language, Solvency II experience and a wealth of non-life experi¬ence it was going to be a challenging search that would take us in to the whole of Europe & Asia to search for the right talent. The successful candidate would likely have to relocate to take this role for a minimum period of 3 years. We value our knowledge of the markets and constantly invest in keeping our information updated and were consequently able to come up with a long list of candidates within a month. After a further intake with the CEO we started pitching the role to our contacts, after another 8 weeks we had presented 11 Non-Life CRO’s, had 5 people in interviews and within a month we were able to successfully fulfil the search.
Awards
Julien FabiusManager
Tel: +31 (0) 20 716 84 50 +32 (0) 2888 6051 Email: [email protected]
Julien specialises in representing Actuaries in the Benelux insurance market across Life, General Insurance, Pensions and Investments, in both industry and consulting clients.
Niels van Nieuwkerk
Tel: +31 (0)20 716 8327 Email: [email protected]
ConsultantNiels specialises in representing Actuaries in the Dutch insurance market, he is originally from Holland and a former organisational change consultant so thoroughly understands the culture of the Dutch marketplace.
Laurence Baken
Tel: +32 (0)2 401 2249 Email: [email protected]
ConsultantLaurence specialises in representing Actuaries in the Belgium insurance market, she is originally from Belgium and consequently has an in-depth understanding of the Belgian market.
Case Studies
+44 (0) 207 649 9466
+44 (0)207 310 8583
+44 (0)207 310 8549
www.ojassociates.com
