Group Insurance Lead

Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

Role overview

We are looking for a Group Insurance Lead to join our governance and compliance division. The Group Insurance Lead will be responsible for leading and managing the Group’s insurance strategy and portfolio, ensuring appropriate levels of cover are in place and that claims are efficiently and effectively handled. This role will also lead and manage the wider insurance function and team, including engagement, performance management and personal development.

Key responsibilities

• Insurance matters: Lead the development, implementation, and management of the Group’s Insurance Strategy
• Provide strategic and technical support to senior managers on insurance demands and requirements and to challenge and resolve risk transfer requests
• Lead and manage the ongoing development of the Group’s complex insurance programme and standalone policies, including renewal and tender negotiations; provide technical and strategic input when reporting options, outcomes and recommendations to the Director of Governance and Compliance, Chief Financial Officer, Executive Management Team and Audit Risk and Assurance committee where appropriate
• Responsible for the management of all broker, insurer, consulting and loss adjusting contracts and relationships supporting the Group’s insurance programmes
• Responsible for the identification, review, implementation, and management of new or alternative insurance products
• Responsible for presenting accurate risk profile information to insurance providers
• Lead annual evaluation and recovery of insurance costs from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that internal budgets are effectively managed and premium recoveries correctly allocated
• Lead the development and management of communications and training strategies to highlight and influence good practice and continually improve the Group’s risk and insurance culture
• Lead the development and ongoing development of systems and procedures for recording and managing claims made by or against the Group and regularly report the Group’s claims information to the Executive Management Team and key stakeholders
• Act as the Group’s in-house Loss Adjuster to provide technical support and influence in the management of claims and for the approval of under-excess insurance losses
• Lead the ongoing development of the Group’s register of insurances

Business Continuity

• Lead the creation and ongoing development of the Group’s framework, policy and approach to business continuity
• Lead the ongoing development and management of the Governance and Compliance team business continuity plan
• Provide technical and strategic advice to Chief Officers, the Executive Management Team and services on business continuity matters affecting the Group
• Lead and support on business continuity incidents in line with the framework
• Lead the mobilisation of incident management teams and use technical knowledge to support the silver incident management team and report and advise to the gold incident management team
• Embed robust business continuity across the Group with ongoing validation
• Provide technical and strategic support and influence senior stakeholders to ensure robust local business continuity plans are in place across the Group
• Lead the development and delivery of training to ensure continued awareness is embedded
• Regularly report to the Executive Management Team and Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee on the status of the Group’s business continuity management programme

More about you

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)
• Certified in Insurance, Chartered Institute of Insurance
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Insurance
• Certificate in Loss Adjusting, Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters
• Technical and strategic experience and understanding of insurance and related products
• Experience and understanding of the insurance market in relation to A2Dominion areas of operation
• Understanding of legislative and regulatory background to insurance activities
• Significant claims management and analysis knowledge, ideally certified as a Loss Adjuster or senior in-house claims manager

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we offer flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life. We provide a wide range of staff benefits including:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Investment in your learning and development

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for you and your family. We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme with cycling equipment available and salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to help improve people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk

Equal opportunity

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to employing disabled people. We actively attract and recruit disabled people, provide an inclusive recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet minimum criteria, be flexible in assessment, and make reasonable adjustments as required.

We recognise the value of diversity and inclusivity in our hiring. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.

Meeting the role requirements

We understand some people may apply even if they don’t meet 100% of the role requirements. If this sounds like you, apply anyway and arrange a call with our recruitment team at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk.

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London, England, United Kingdom