Name: Fortune 500 Financial Services Firm
Title: Head of Government Relations
Location: Washington, DC or New York, NY
Company: The world leader in delivering risk and insurance services and solutions to
clients from all industries. It provides global risk management, risk consulting, insurance broking, alternative risk financing, and insurance program management services for businesses,
public entities, associations, professional services organizations, and private clients. The
company is organized by client, industry, and risk categories to facilitate the global
delivery of highly specialized products and services covering a wide spectrum of risks.
Summary: The Head of Government Affairs will be responsible for leading
the development and implementation of the company’s federal and state government
affairs agenda, including overall responsibility for advancing all aspects of that agenda.
Reporting Relationship: Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Primary Responsibilities:
• Monitor, track and analyze federal and state legislation and regulatory policy
developments that impact the company, its subsidiaries, its operations and
employees.
• In close collaboration with executive management, formulate company positions
on a broad range of issues, including but not limited to the long-range plans for the federal regulation of the insurance industry.
for federal regulation of the insurance industry.
• Advise senior management across the company on that broad range of legislative,
regulatory and public policy issues.
• Develop a strategy for influencing the legislation and regulations that impact the
company.
• Establish and/or maintain and strengthen relationships with the legislative and
executive branches, including key members of Congress, members of the
administration, governors, state legislators and appropriate senior staff.
• Lead the advocacy efforts of the government relations team, including the
management of outside consultants and lobbyists.
• Draft company responses and collaborate with the American Insurance
Association, the American Council of Life Insurers and other trade groups in
drafting industry responses to legislation and rulemaking.
• Contribute to strategic planning and annual budgeting through advanced understanding of likely legislative and regulatory outcomes.
• Build and lead the government relations team. Ensure that each team member has
a development plan. Coach and develop a successor and manage talent.
• Develop international governmental strategy.
• Work closely with the company’s community relations and communications
personnel.
• Promote and manage the company’s PAC.
• Represent the company in public forums on topics of interest to the company.
• Serve as liaison to relevant public interest groups.
• Provide public testimony
Requirements
Requirements:
• Advanced knowledge of federal and state government affairs and public policy.
• A minimum of 10 years of government relations experience, including three
years in a senior-level management capacity.
• Proven member-level legislative relationships; as well as good relationships with senior
staff of the Joint Economic Committee, the House Financial Services Committee,
the Senate Banking Committee and other relevant committees.
• Proven executive branch relationships.
• Reputation for bipartisanship.
• Strong advocacy skills.
• Proven creative and analytical thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Some experience in government at senior staff level preferred but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in political science, business or another relevant field required.
JD preferred but not required. Master’s in public policy or related field preferred.
Benefits
- Targeted base salary is $425,000
- Base may fluctuate somewhat based on experience and skillset
- Bonus
- Stock options
- Generous 401K match
- Deferred comp
- Full insurance coverage