Group Insurance Lead

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading housing association in the UK is seeking a Group Insurance Lead to manage their insurance strategy and portfolio. This role involves overseeing claims management, developing insurance policies, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in insurance and a strong understanding of the legislative landscape. Join a team committed to providing safe and sustainable homes for diverse communities.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday increasing with service

Up to 8% contributory pension

Investment in learning and development

Generous annual allowance for health and lifestyle benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Qualifications

• Significant claims management and analysis knowledge.
• Experience in the insurance market related to A2Dominion.
• Understanding of legislative and regulatory background.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and management of the Group’s Insurance Strategy.
• Manage broker, insurer, consulting, and loss adjusting contracts.
• Lead the creation and management of the Group’s business continuity framework.

Skills

Technical and Strategic experience in insurance

Claims management and analysis knowledge

Understanding of legislative and regulatory background

Education

Certified in Insurance, Chartered Institute of Insurance

Membership of the Chartered Institute of Insurance

Certificate in Loss Adjusting, Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters

Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English

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Group Insurance Lead
Salary: £68,000 - £76,000 dependent on experience
Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working
Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

About us We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

Role Overview We are looking for a Group Insurance Lead to join our fantastic governance and compliance division. The group Insurance lead will be responsible for leading and managing the Group’s insurance strategy and portfolio including ensuring appropriate levels of cover are in place and 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 and 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 that are in place to support the groups 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 form internal and external stakeholders ensuring that internal budgets are effectively managed and premium recoveries correctly allocated
• Lead the development and management of the delivery 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 the recording and management of claims made by or against the Group and to regularly report the Group’s claims information to the Executive Management Team and key stakeholders
• To 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 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
• To provide technical and strategic advice to Chief Officers, the Executive Management Team and services on business continuity matters affecting the Group
• To lead and support as appropriate on business continuity incidents in line with the framework
• Lead the mobilisation of incident management teams and to use technical knowledge to support the silver incident management team and report and advise to the gold incident management team
• To lead the continued embedding and validation of business continuity to ensure that a robust programme exists across the group
• To provide technical and strategic support and to influence senior stakeholders to ensure robust local business continuity plans are in place across the Group
• To lead the development and delivery of training to ensure that continued awareness is embedded
• Responsible for regularly reporting to the Executive Management Team and Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee on the status of the groups 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 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 inhouse claims manager

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 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 both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request:

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at.

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity,and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of ourpeople and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong.Find out why our people love working with us.”

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.