AMATS Business Development Project Manager

About the role

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Manage commercial projects from planning through execution by developing clear workplans, timelines, deliverables, ownership models, and scalable ways of working.
• Cook up AMATS leadership, originators, marketing, finance, technology, sales enablement, solution lines, shared services, and global/cross-border partners to align priorities and ensure progress.
• Partner with Finance and AMATS leadership to support access to revenue, margin, and commercial performance.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• Commercial curiosity
• Organized
• Capable of turning strategic priorities into focused action

Qualifications

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

Benefits

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.

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.