Our internships
At Willis Towers Watson, we offer students real-world business experience that is hard to find anywhere else. With offices all over the world, a breadth of business functions and supportive experts at every turn, there’s so much to discover about us and yourself.
What to expect
Our internships are designed to give you maximum insight into our business and the best possible preparation for your future career. You’ll apply what you’ve learned at university to real-life intellectual challenges. You’ll gain immediate exposure to client assignments. You’ll do work that takes you out of your comfort zone and offers you something new and unexpected every day.
We have opportunities for interns in each of our four business segments:
Alternatively, you could experience life at the heart of our business by exploring opportunities in Corporate teams such as Human Resources, Finance, Marketing and IT.
What we look for
You need to be on track to graduate from an undergraduate or master’s degree program between December and June.
Your development
Many of our interns go on to join us in graduate roles. So we invest a lot of time and energy into ensuring our internships provide as much insight as possible into a Willis Towers Watson career. This means giving you opportunities to contribute to client projects and experience first-hand what we do and how we do it. It also means helping you develop key skills, such as presenting and project management. By the end of your time here, you’ll have a clear understanding of our business and the many different career paths you could pursue with us.
Our Benefits
As well as getting a competitive salary from day one, you’ll enjoy paid time off and an annual paid volunteering day. Other aspects of our total rewards programs vary by business/geography so please ask your recruiter for more program-specific information.
We have opportunities for you to join our programs in any one of three business segments: Human Capital and Benefits; Corporate Risk and Broking; or Investment Risk and Reinsurance.
Corporate Risk and Broking
We are experts at helping companies unlock potential through effective risk management. Our clients rely on us to craft strategies to quantify, mitigate and transfer risk, taking advantage of our specialist industry experience and unparalleled market know-how. The result is a new way of embracing risk that drives superior results.
Join our Corporate Risk and Broking program, and you’ll gain deep insight into our risk management work, while developing the leadership qualities and customer service skills you need to be one of our leaders of the future.
The internship is sponsored by senior management and provides you with ongoing support and coaching from the program management team. You will also benefit from a structured learning curriculum and training sessions.
Human Capital and Benefits
We work closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return. Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance.
Click below to find out more from our interns.
Retirement Actuarial Program
Retirement is our largest business, which reflects what an important issue it is. As an intern here, you will have a unique opportunity to become expert in a demanding but highly rewarding environment, where you can expect to be offering consulting to clients on assets and liabilities worth many hundreds of millions of pounds.
Talent Consulting Program
The greatest asset of most organizations is their people. In an era of rapidly developing technology, greater workforce mobility and increasing customer demands, having a cohesive talent strategy is crucial for business success. Our talent consultants use a combination of consulting approaches and technology solutions to help clients with the design, implementation and communication of effective talent strategies. Areas you could potentially become expert in here include business transformation, leadership and manager effectiveness, listening strategies, performance management and workforce analytics and planning.
Investment, Risk and Reinsurance
We work closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return. Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance.
Click below to find out more from our interns.
Investment Consulting Program
You’ll have an opportunity to work with some of the largest investing institutions in the world, as you help us create financial value for investors on both an advisory and delegated basis. You will also help us influence the way the investment industry operates – our ethos is: ‘Changing Investment for the Better’.
Insurance Consulting Actuarial Program
Our Insurance Consulting and Technology business helps leading insurance clients improve their business performance by providing leading-edge software, solutions and advice. Areas you can focus on as part of this team include advanced analytics, financial and regulatory reporting, enterprise risk and capital management, mergers and acquisitions, and business strategy and operations.
Software Development Program
Technology is increasingly integral to the insurance industry – and we are proud to say that over 1,000 companies around the world use our insurance software solutions. In fact, we are the world’s largest provider of actuarial software. As an intern, you will be able to start working on real projects from day one, gaining exposure to all aspects of professional software development and learning how to use the latest tools and techniques.
Willis RE REINSURANCE ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM (REACH)
As an intern on our Reinsurance Development Program, REACH, you’ll be working as part of one of the world’s leading reinsurance advisors. Here, you’ll gain insight into how we ensure our clients have the right protection in place, so that when the unfortunate or unexpected hits, it’s not catastrophic for their business. This program also offers tailored training courses and on-the-job learning.
We recruit interns directly into various areas of our business in North America.
Corporate Risk and Broking
We are experts at helping companies unlock potential through effective risk management. Our clients rely on us to craft strategies to quantify, mitigate and transfer risk, taking advantage of our specialist industry experience and unparalleled market know-how. The result is a new way of embracing risk that drives superior results.
Join our two-year Corporate Risk and Broking program, and you’ll gain deep insight into our risk management work, while developing the leadership qualities and customer service skills you need to be one of our leaders of the future.
Key areas you could potentially explore include:
Benefits Delivery Administration
Combining operational expertise with user centered-design, we help organizations of all sizes unlock the potential of their benefits strategy and align it with total rewards and the employee value proposition. We also enable people to navigate expanded benefit options with confidence and satisfaction. Drawing on more than 100 years of benefit consulting experience, we offer our clients a wholly owned suite of innovative, holistic and flexible benefits delivery solutions.
Our opportunities for graduates in Benefits Delivery Administration are all within the field of software solutions.
Human Capitaland Benefits
The ability to cultivate and grow talent, while carefully balancing costs and rewards, is one of the key factors that differentiates high-performing organizations from everyone else. Our Human Capital and Benefits teams use leading-edge thinking, data, analytics and software to help clients find new and effective ways to motivate their people and foster wellbeing.
We have opportunities for actuarial and non-actuarial graduates to join our Human Capital and Benefits business in the following areas:
Investment, Risk and Reinsurance
We work closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return. Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance.
Within this business segment we look for actuarial, investment and software developer graduates to join us in two areas: Insurance Consulting and Reinsurance.
Reinsurance Achievement Program (REACH)
Operated by Willis Re, our Reinsurance division, this program provides you with a solid foundation for a future career in the reinsurance industry.
In China, we offer internship opportunities across all our business segments.
Human Capital and Benefits
The ability to cultivate and grow talent, while carefully balancing costs and rewards, is one of the key factors that differentiates high-performing organizations from everyone else. Our Human Capital and Benefits teams use leading-edge thinking, data, analytics and software to help clients find new and effective ways to motivate their people and foster wellbeing.
Within our Human Capital and Benefits business, we recruit actuarial and non-actuarial students into intern roles in the following business areas:
Investment, Risk and Reinsurance
We work closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return. Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance.
Within this business segment, we offer internship opportunities in the following areas:
Corporate Risk and Broking
At Willis Towers Watson, we provide a broad range of risk advice and insurance broking services to clients ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations. We recruit people from all academic backgrounds into our Corporate Risk and Broking teams, and offer internship opportunities in the following business areas:
Internship opportunities are available in all of our business segments, with the exception of Business Delivery Administration.
Corporate Risk and Broking
At Willis Watson Towers, we are experts at helping companies unlock potential through effective risk management. Our clients rely on us to craft strategies to quantify, mitigate and transfer risk, taking advantage of our specialist industry experience and unparalleled market know-how. The result is a new way of embracing risk that drives superior results.
We recruit people from all academic backgrounds into the following intern roles within Corporate Risk and Broking:
Human Capitaland Benefits
The ability to cultivate and grow talent, while carefully balancing costs and rewards, is one of the key factors that differentiates high-performing organizations from everyone else. Our Human Capital and Benefits teams use leading-edge thinking, data, analytics and software to help clients find new and effective ways to motivate their people and foster wellbeing.
We offer internship opportunities within pensions evaluations, which are suitable for students of mathematics and statistics.
Investment, Risk and Reinsurance
We work closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return. Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance.
Within this business segment, we have internship opportunities in the following areas:
We offer a wide range of internship opportunities across all our business segments. This includes corporate roles in areas such as HR, Finance and Operations.
Corporate Risk and BrokingPhilippines
At Willis Towers Watson, we provide a broad range of risk advice and insurance broking services to clients ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations. We recruit people from all academic backgrounds into our Corporate Risk and Broking teams, and offer internship opportunities in the following business areas:
Benefits Delivery and AdministrationPhilippines
Combining operational expertise with user-centered design, we help organizations of all sizes unlock the potential of their benefits strategy and align it with total rewards and the employee value proposition. We also enable people to navigate expanded benefit options with confidence and satisfaction. Drawing on more than 100 years of benefit consulting experience, we offer our clients a wholly owned suite of innovative, holistic and flexible benefits delivery solutions.
Within Benefits Delivery and Administration, we offer internship opportunities in the following areas:
Human Capital and BenefitsPhilippines
The ability to cultivate and grow talent, while carefully balancing costs and rewards, is one of the key factors that differentiates high-performing organizations from everyone else. Our Human Capital and Benefits teams use leading-edge thinking, data, analytics and software to help clients find new and effective ways to motivate their people and foster wellbeing.
Within our Human Capital and Benefits business, we recruit actuarial and non-actuarial students into intern roles in the following business areas:
Corporate Philippines
Join one of the many expert teams driving our strategic success, from IT and Legal to Marketing and Communications to Finance and HR.
Investment, Risk and ReinsurancePhilippines
We work closely with investors, reinsurers and insurers to manage the equation between risk and return. Blending advanced analytics with deep institutional knowledge, we reveal new opportunities to maximize performance. We offer internship opportunities within the Investments Consulting area of our business.
Willis ReEurope
An internship with Willis Re will provide valuable, real-world experience enabling you to apply your education in an environment that is both intellectually challenging and rewarding. At the end of your time with us, you will have a greater understanding of what we do and how closely our career opportunities match your ambitions in any of the following roles:
You have the potential. Now explore the possibilities. Apply for an internship with Willis Towers Watson. All you need to do to get the process started is submit an application through this site.
Complete online assessments. You may need to do a video interview as well
Visit our offices for interviews with the recruitment team and hiring manager
Accept offer and provide necessary documentation.
At Willis Towers Watson, we believe in equal employment opportunities, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated. We do not tolerate any form of unlawful discrimination, nor do we support any action or initiative that infringes upon any human right.
