Manufacturing

How WTW can help manufacturers

We bring deep manufacturing sector expertise gained from working with clients across the full spectrum of manufacturing businesses.

Our specialists deliver proven risk management, insurance and HR solutions, tailored to match your manufacturing business’ needs.

You have a single point of contact who takes time to understand your business and brings in the right risk, insurance and HR support. That means the right solutions, the right specialists and the right local insight, wherever you operate.

With advanced analytics and proprietary data, we create efficient and effective solutions that meet your needs.

Manufacturing risk and insurance

You need a partner who understands how to manage and mitigate manufacturing risk. We partner with you to identify and manage your manufacturing risks and find opportunities to grow.

We focus on the high-profile risks and key operational areas such as:

• Supply chain
• Critical sites
• Crisis management
• Health and safety
• Business continuity

Our tools and consulting services help you identify, manage and report on your risks, emerging threats and opportunities efficiently and with greater impact.

We help reduce, transfer, optimize and mitigate your risk exposures to protect your people, property and profits. Our expertise covers governance, operational and strategic risks, both enterprise-wide or site-specific.

By combining our analytics and consulting expertise, we accurately predict, assess and quantify your risk, giving you a global and local perspective that supports more effective investment and business strategies.

How can manufacturers benefit from Willis' industry specialization?

Our risk and insurance specialists are focused on delivering exceptional, tailored manufacturing risk and insurance services.

We always seek to understand your business to find solutions that fit your needs.

Your manufacturing specialist single point-of-contact connects you to one global Willis team of risk management, risk engineering, analytical and placement teams.

How can manufacturers use analytics for risk optimization and governance?

You can understand, optimize and govern the key exposures with Willis’ suite of advanced analytics:

• Connected Risk Intelligence: Reduce your total cost of risk, reallocate spending where it’s most valuable and make sure you have the right coverage
• Insurance Insights Dashboard: Better aggregate and analyze your insurance data, identify coverage gaps, assess counterparty risks and use your portfolio to seek enhanced value from your insurance program

Take advantage of manufacturing risk and insurance solutions tailored to you by industry specialists.

Helping manufacturers use capital more effectively

Mounting cost pressures, shifting consumer demand and industry consolidation are forcing manufacturers to reshape brand and product portfolios through M&A. With economic uncertainty, inflation and supply chain disruption impacting valuations and deal outcomes, we support risk-adjusted deal structuring, due diligence and integration planning - helping you avoid downside surprises and protect deal value.

Beyond the deal, we help you capture synergies and manage integration risks, including workforce alignment, operational resilience and cost optimization. All of which directly impact financial performance. Move from reactive cost-cutting to proactive portfolio transformation, reallocating capital to higher-growth, higher-margin opportunities while managing transaction risk.

While M&A addresses near- and mid-term capital strategy, our Retirement services help manufacturers tackle a major, often underappreciated, financial issue: long-term liabilities and workforce cost structures. We help you quantify, manage and reduce pension and retirement liabilities, which can represent a significant financial burden.

Improve balance sheet strength and financial flexibility through strategies such as plan design changes, funding optimization and risk transfer. Whether you’ are looking to de-risk a pension plan or outsource your defined contribution through a pooled employer plan (PEP), we enable greater cost predictability and reduced earnings volatility, supporting more stable financial planning.

Our services include:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Retirement plan design and management
• Pension de-risking
• LifeSight PEP
• Outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO)
• Funds and strategies

Manufacturing faces a rapidly changing risk and operating environment. By partnering with WTW, you can leverage our extensive expertise in risk, people and capital to tailor risk management, insurance and HR strategies that reduce risk and unlock opportunities for sustainable growth. Connect with our team today to discover how we can help you build resilience and thrive in the future of manufacturing.