Jayesh Patel Bsc ACII

• Overall responsibility for driving the growth of Multinational Program business across Allianz Commercial globally.
• Leading a global team of Market Practice Leaders that support our Distribution and Underwriting teams to win and retain key Multinational program business.
• Curating our Marketing strategy and calendar, including external events and thought leadership activity on both global and regional level

Key Achievements:

Overseeing Multinational growth from EUR 2.8bn to EUR 4bn between 2022 and 2025

Leading a team that participated in over 1000 new Multinational tenders with 25% strike rate and maintaining an average of 94% retention of our book

Transforming visibility and reputation of the Allianz brand in Multinational with year on year increases in our external NPS score (+40 in 2025) and winning 5 industry awards in the last 18 months including Global Insurer of the Year in the AXCO Global insurance Awards 2025

• Leading up our sales and distribution activities in the UK and Ireland, including targeted new business acquisition.
• Senior relationship contact for our top-tier client-base (Combined GWP over $100m), including our two biggest client programs globally.
• Responsible for business development and relationship with our network insurer partnerships in UK and Ireland; leading domestic group protection and PMI insurers.

Key Achievements:

100% retention of our UK client portfolio during my time and 20% overall growth premium growth particularly in our Captive book.

Pitch, curation and successful implementation of our first Global Underwriting Program in 2019 and subsequent multi-year renewal in 2022 worth in excess of EUR 10m

• Dual role leading our global tender team as well as heading our technical team overseeing the development of our global programs.
• As global tender lead, secured appointments for 10 new major international client programs including our first captive program in the US. Role included managerial responsibility over 2 direct reports.
• As technical head, implemented several proposition improvements, particularly for captive programs that led to our success at the European and UK Captive Review Awards in 2016 and 2017 as Best Employee Benefit Fronting Network.

• Operational management of global employee benefit risk programs for our major existing UK headquartered clients, including sustained liaison and relations with all involved stakeholders.
• The role encompassed all aspects of global client acquisition, retention and growth in line with key business targets and deliverables.
• Lead in working with other international Allianz Group entities for bilateral and multilateral customer propositions.

• Nominated for leading up the new business expansion into the London market.
• Day-to-day management of our high profile existing global captive and multinational pooling clients in collaboration with the Regional Director for Asia Pacific and UK.
• Strengthening our relationships with UK partner insurers and intermediaries.

• Principally supported the Regional Director for Asia-Pacific with existing and prospective international clients, including tender submission preparation and delivery, lead generation and execution, and active operational account management.

• Rotational Corporate Graduate Scheme with Allianz UK performing several roles in Marketing, Sales, Underwriting and Claims.

• Designed and implemented an Excel-based model to simulate overpayment scenarios.
• Answered Parliamentary Questions on tax credit policy, statistics and compliance issues.
• Wrote summary papers on topics including work incentives and tax credit renewals for publications for Budget 2006.