AMATS Business Development Project Manager

Aon is looking for an AMATS Business Development Project Manager

Aon is seeking an AMATS Business Development Project Manager (PM) to support the growth of Aon's North America M&A and Transaction Solutions business. This hire will work directly for the AMATS Chief Commercial Officer to help build and carry out the AMATS commercial strategy. This role will combine project management, sales support, analytics, reporting, collaboration with partners, and go-to-market assistance to accelerate growth across private equity, corporate M&A, portfolio solutions, and advisor channels. The ideal candidate is highly organized, analytically strong, commercially curious, and capable of turning strategic priorities into focused action across a complex, matrixed organization.

Operating where business, data, technology, marketing, and sales intersect, the AMATS Business Development Project Manager is key to the AMATS CCO's efforts. This position focuses on converting commercial priorities into defined project plans, regular operating cycles, enablement resources, reporting, and quantifiable growth projects. The person will aid in implementing AMATS growth strategies, including client and prospect targeting, whitespace discovery, relationship mapping, sales oversight, pipeline tracking, playbook creation, advisor channel engagement, and go-to-market activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the AMATS CCO and leadership team in translating the North America commercial strategy into actionable growth initiatives, go-to-market plans, and responsibilities assigned to collaborators across private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, corporate strategic buyers, and M&A advisor channels.
• Collaborate with AMATS leadership and originators to identify, assess, and promote growth opportunities throughout the distribution network.
• Help coordinate short- and long-term commercial priorities across Transaction Solutions, Transaction Advisory Services, and portfolio-related offerings.

Business Development, Tools & Operating Cadence

• Establish and maintain a steady commercial operating rhythm with AMATS leadership, originators, sales leaders, and relevant cross-functional partners.
• Coordinate preparation for pipeline reviews, growth planning discussions, business reviews, and commercial leadership meetings.
• Produce, coordinate, and upkeep AMATS business development resources - including playbooks, collateral, training content, onboarding materials, communications, and platform-based tools such as Deal Cloud, Aon Connect, and Pitchbook - to boost sales focus, accountability, and adoption.

Client Targeting, Research & Analytics

• Conduct client, market, industry, whitespace, and advisor-channel research to support prospecting, client prioritization, relationship mapping, and targeted engagement strategies.
• Develop recurring reports, dashboards, and executive-ready insights that improve access to pipeline data, client targeting, growth initiatives, account performance, progress on important metrics, and commercial impact.
• Analyze data to support account prioritization, resource allocation, revenue growth opportunities, and enablement impact measurement while maintaining strong attention to accuracy and detail.

Project Management, Governance & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Manage commercial projects from planning through execution by developing clear workplans, timelines, deliverables, ownership models, and scalable ways of working.
• Coordinate AMATS leadership, originators, marketing, finance, technology, sales enablement, solution lines, shared services, and global/cross-border partners to align priorities and ensure progress.
• Support commercial governance and process improvement efforts, including pipeline rigor, pricing coordination, approval workflows, exception tracking, process changes, and operating model consistency.
• Partner with Finance and AMATS leadership to support access to revenue, margin, and commercial performance.

Skills and Experience That Will Lead to Success:

• More than 3 years of experience in project coordination, sales support, sales operations, business development assistance, marketing, analytics, or a similar commercial function.
• Experience supporting senior leaders and cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
• Outstanding project management capability with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities, interested parties, and timelines simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft clear executive-level updates, presentations, and business summaries.
• Solid analytical skills, including experience working with spreadsheets, business reporting, CRM data, pipeline information, and large data sets.
• High level of collaborator management skills with the ability to build trust and credibility across commercial, marketing, technology, finance, and client-facing teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint; experience with CRM, sales analytics, reporting, or sales enablement platforms preferred.
• Broker license or willingness to obtain one preferred.

Education

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required, ideally in business, finance, economics, statistics, marketing, or a related field.

What Success Looks Like

• AMATS commercial priorities are converted into clear project plans, operating rhythms, and measurable action plans.
• The AMATS CCO and leadership team have improved access to pipeline, client targeting, growth initiatives, reporting, and partner accountability.
• Sales enablement tools, playbooks, training materials, and commercial resources are organized, current, and actively used by relevant teams.
• AMATS growth initiatives are supported with strong research, analytics, project rigor, and cross-functional coordination.
• Collaborators experience clear communication, timely delivery, and scalable commercial support.
• The AMATS commercial strategy becomes more structured, data-informed, and consistently accomplished across priority client segments and channels.

How we support our colleagues

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage an inclusive workforce. Plus, our agile environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions for our colleagues as well.

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative and inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. People with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com

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 $70,000 to $100,000 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. The actual salary may vary for applicants in a different 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.

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