Arthur J Gallagher Australia has promoted Sarah Lyons to COO as it moves to integrate its Australian broking teams.

Ms Lyons, who joined OAMPS earlier this year from the UK, will take on responsibility for the Australian branch network in addition to her current role as Head of Commercial Broking at OAMPS.

Mark Oatway will become Head of Corporate Broking, adding the OAMPS corporate team to his current responsibility for Arthur J Gallagher Australia.

Head of Corporate Broking OAMPS Ross Castle will become Head of Insurer Relationships and Markets.

The changes take effect from October 1, with all roles reporting to CEO of Australian Broking Andrew Godden.

OAMPS and Arthur J Gallagher teams in claims, finance, operations and other support functions have also been amalgamated.

Gallagher Pacific MD Steve Lockwood says the Australia and New Zealand region presents a key growth opportunity.

“We have paid close attention to taking the best talent from our combined businesses and carefully considered how we can best leverage strong leaders and integrate our teams across Australia,” he said.

“I am confident the structure we now have in place absolutely aligns our business functions with the needs of a single branch network and corporate capability.”