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INTRODUCTION

Reporting to Head of Japan Business, Global and North America, and partnering closely with commercial leadership across the U.S., Japan, and Japan Global Solutions (JGS) globally, this role supports the execution of growth strategy, sales enablement, governance, and operational excellence across JGS. This role drives the consistent adoption of global standards, platforms, and ECG guidelines while adapting execution to regional and local market needs. You will lead the planning, delivery, and measurement of key growth initiatives, empowering client-facing colleagues to bring the full breadth of the firm’s capabilities to clients in a consistent, scalable, and impactful way.

This is an office based role out of our Chicago, IL or NYC offices.

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As an organization, we are united through trust as one engaged team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

What the day will look like

This role focuses on improving global opportunity conversion and client experience. It supports balanced revenue growth and serves as a strategic liaison among Sales, Marketing, and Solution Lines supporting Japanese multinational corporations.

• Partnership JGS Leadership team on planning and growth initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders across regions to coordinate priorities, align activities, and drive progress toward growth objectives.
• Leverage business data, market intelligence, and insights from Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics (ACIA) to support decision-making and execution.
• Monitor progress, identify execution risks, and recommend actions to maintain momentum and achieve desired outcomes.
• Lead implementation of strategic investment, growth, and client development initiatives; talent development, recruiting, onboarding, and employee engagement initiatives across JGS.
• Partner with leadership and recruiting teams to strengthen bilingual talent pipelines and career development programs.
• Lead initiatives that enhance colleague performance, retention, and organizational effectiveness.
• Help leaders create an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing culture.
• Contribute to workforce planning activities and people-related initiatives that support long-term business growth.
• Lead execution of growth enablement initiatives, strategic pursuits, and operational improvement programs.
• Encourage adoption of best practices in account planning, opportunity management, governance, and collaboration.
• Develop practical tools, reporting, and operating rhythms that improve consistency and effectiveness across JGS.
• Coordinate stakeholders around key initiatives and ensure follow-through on actions and commitments.
• Promote knowledge sharing, AI adoption, and standard process exchange across JGS.
• Become a champion of scalable tools, templates, and enablement resources that improve colleague effectiveness.
• Help elevate understanding of Aon's capabilities across Human Capital, Commercial Risk, and other solution lines.
• Build strong working relationships across JGS, Aon Japan, regional leadership teams, and solution lines.
• Support leadership reviews, strategic discussions, and business planning processes.
• Influence outcomes through collaboration, credibility, and disciplined execution across a highly matrixed organization.

How this opportunity is different

In this role, you will translate JGS’ global growth strategy into scalable enablement frameworks, helping to build and improve a global growth enablement platform. You will champion operational excellence by strengthening pipeline governance, operating cadence, and sales execution team.

Skills and experience that will lead to success

• Native or Near-Native level proficiency in both Japanese and English.
• Experience in strategy planning, organizational effectiveness, talent development, growth enablement, project management, consulting, or related functions; supporting critical initiatives within complex or global organizations.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional projects and driving execution across multiple parties.
• Experience working with Japanese business units, multinational organizations, or cross-cultural teams preferred.
• Experience in insurance brokerage, risk management, consulting, professional services, or related industries preferred.
• Strong project management, execution and influencing skills.
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into practical plans and measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with business analytics, CRM (Client Relationship Management) platforms, AI-enabled tools, and data-driven decision-making preferred.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

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.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $130,000 - $140,000 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.