Aon Graduate Programme 2027 - Commercial Risk Consulting

Commercial Risk Consulting - Graduate Programme

Start Date: 1st September 2027

Application closing date: 7th December 2026

Please note, we may close earlier if we receive the quantity, quality & diversity of applications required.

About the Role

Join Aon as a Commercial Risk Consulting graduate and, from day one, you’ll be an integral part of either our Strategic Engagement (Inpoint) or Aon M&A and Transaction Solutions (AMATS) team. You’ll help clients navigate complex business challenges, handle risk and make better-informed decisions.

Strategic Engagement (Inpoint):

Inpoint is Aon’s carrier engagement and management business, working primarily with insurers across Commercial Risk. Our teams use market insight, portfolio analytics and Aon’s broader capabilities to build stronger, more strategic relationships with carrier partners. Strategic Engagement is focused on helping Aon and its carrier partners identify shared priorities, understand portfolio performance and turn insight into meaningful action.

This is not a traditional strategy consulting role. It is a relationship-led, data-informed opportunity at the centre of Aon’s engagement with the insurance market.

What You Will Do:

• Analyse market, carrier and portfolio information to identify trends and opportunities, turning data and analytics into practical insights for carrier and internal partners discussions.
• Support strategic relationship planning and engagement for key insurers, helping teams establish clear priorities, actions and follow-through while deepening your knowledge of customer relationship management.
• Collaborate across Inpoint, GBC and Commercial Risk UK to understand carrier objectives, capture insight and coordinate engagement with the market, building your project management and consulting skills over time.
• Contribute to strategic carrier meetings and senior collaborator discussions and learn how strong commercial relationships are developed throughout Aon and the insurance sector.
• Prepare clear, high-quality materials and presentations for strategic meetings and portfolio reviews, using focused research and document review to communicate complex information concisely.

Aon M&A and Transaction Solutions (AMATS):

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and other event-driven situations can be complex, time-critical and highly specialised. The AMATS team typically assists clients in three core areas, prior to, during and/or after completion of an M&A deal or other investment opportunity:

• Providing due diligence on an ‘target’ business across a wide range of deal-critical areas, including risk & insurance, cyber & digital, human capital and climate maters. This diligence evaluates the target’s risk exposures - past, current, and future - which may impact transaction value for the buyer.
• Arranging insurance solutions aimed at de-risking transaction liabilities and enhancing investor returns, often removing deal-breaking risks. This involves structuring and placing solutions like warranty & indemnity insurance and using insurance capital to mitigate contingent risks, such as tax and litigation.
• Delivering portfolio value creation programmes for financial sponsors, including private equity, infrastructure funds, and real estate investors. Use their portfolio scale and insights from analysis. Coordinate efforts to reduce the total cost of risk and improve governance.

The clients include financial sponsors and Corporates, with transaction sizes ranging from small UK domestic deals to some of the largest cross-border transactions.

What You Will Do:

• Support transaction advisory work for private equity, infrastructure, real estate and corporate clients, helping the team research and analyse risks connected with M&A deals.
• Support the arrangement of M&A insurance solutions by helping colleagues prepare information for the insurance market and learning how transaction risks can be transferred.
• Coordinate Aon expertise across practices and geographies while developing your internal network and learning to handle actions and workstreams across a fast-moving transaction process.
• Help identify relevant Aon products, services and solutions that may support client deal and investment objectives, applying commercial judgement and broader business context.
• Build strong collaborative connections with clients, insurers, M&A advisers and internal collaborators, while developing your consulting and business communication skills over time.

Your Development

As an Aon Graduate, you will be enrolled onto our Launch Programme. Alongside your broader development, you will progressively build the technical and professional capabilities needed for the role. This development programme is built around the following core elements:

• Business learning: On the job learning and experiences giving you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and understanding of the team and solution line you have joined.
• Centralised learning: Our UK graduates complete in an Aon Induction, monthly webinars, business skills training and workshops; all designed to help you develop your knowledge of Aon, build your confidence and your network across our business.
• Professional Qualifications: You will be expected to complete our Go Further Apprenticeship programmes, fully supported to study towards the level 4 Diploma in Insurance from the CII (Chartered Insurance Institute) and beyond. You’ll receive paid study leave, plus an extensive range of study and tuition materials.

Locations

• London

You will spend the first 6 months based in the office to support your learning, development, and progression. After this initial training period, you will have the opportunity to work more flexibly, spending at least 3 to 4 days face to face in the Aon office or with clients.

What to Expect from the Recruitment Process

• Application Review: Processed on a rolling basis. Takes up to two weeks.
• Online Assessment: 5 calendar days to complete.
• Video Interview: Up to 10 days (240 hours) to record and submit.
• Assessment Centres: Held in person, usually from mid-January. You’ll receive 7-14 days’ notice if invited.

What are we looking for?

• Motivation and ambition to pursue a career in Commercial Risk Consulting.
• AI literacy, prompt engineering and AI judgement. Comfortable using AI-enabled technologies.
• Client centricity, strategic thinking and commercial awareness. Curious about the insurance market.
• Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills. Able to analyse information, identify patterns, challenge assumptions and draw evidence-based conclusions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to explain complex information clearly and build positive working relationships.
• Results driven, dependable and adaptable. Takes ownership, applies feedback, continuously develops skills and can manage changing priorities.
• Inclusive. Values different perspectives and helps create an environment where everyone feels respected and able to contribute.

Next Steps

If you are interested in this programme and would like to apply, please review the information on each team and select your first-choice preferred team. Please note that we will try to consider you for your first-choice preference where possible, however we cannot guarantee your first choice due to availability of roles. If your top preference is unavailable, we will also consider you for other teams.

Entry Requirements:

You will need to have or be on track to achieve a 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in any degree subject. To ensure compliance with UK law, successful candidates must demonstrate their right to work in the UK throughout the duration of their time in role.

If you have any questions or need accommodations, just contact our team - graduates@aon.co.uk.

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