Head of Supply Chain Outcomes

Avantia; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and Growth

Health and Wellbeing

Financial Security and Reward

Time Off

Flexible Working

Job summary

Homeprotect is seeking a qualified leader to design and deliver a robust Claims Supply Chain Strategy. You will drive supplier performance, procurement, and contract management to optimise claims cost, indemnity spend and customer outcomes.

The role requires cross-functional influence, regulatory awareness and a track record of tangible improvements. As part of a flexible, hybrid working model, you will collaborate with technology, data science and customer teams to deliver value while upholding

Qualifications

• Strategic supply chain leadership experience in a claims environment.
• Executive level stakeholder management, including board exposure.
• Insight and intelligence gathering in home claims supply chains.
• Experience leading supply chains with regulatory/compliance focus.
• Track record delivering improvements to claims spend and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Strategic design and delivery of the Homeprotect Supply Chain Outcomes strategy.
• Manage supplier performance within contract tolerances and add value.
• Lead contract management and flexible supply chain solutions.
• Oversee supplier procurement with cross-functional input.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and QA with suppliers.
• Support market insights and share intel with stakeholders.
• Represent Supply Chain interests in internal/external forums.
• Lead the Supply Chain Outcomes forum to track improvements.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Market insight

Regulatory & compliance

Cost & value improvements

Job description

Cover for Almost every Home

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle - to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry. Since 2002, we've been combining smart technology with real human expertise to protect hundreds of thousands of unique homes across the UK, and we're just getting started.

About Homeprotect

Cover for Almost every Home

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle - to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry. Since 2002, we've been combining smart technology with real human expertise to protect hundreds of thousands of unique homes across the UK, and we're just getting started.

If you're someone who loves solving interesting problems, taking ownership and working with a team that aims high, speaks up and lifts each other, Homeprotect is a place where you can do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real difference for our customers.

What It's Like To Work Here

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our people. We're a small but perfectly formed team of insurance specialists, technologists, data scientists and customer champions - all bringing individual expertise, an appetite for innovation and a shared ambition to protect the homes and things people love.

We work at pace, but we trust our people to work in a way that brings out their best. You'll collaborate closely across teams, have real ownership from day one and see the impact you have first-hand with flexible working to help you balance the needs of your role with the rhythm of your life.

We've been recognised as a Great Place to Work UK for seven consecutive years - most recently ranked 29th nationally, jumping 71 places in a single year.

ROLE PURPOSE

This role will be responsible for the design and delivery of a Claims Supply Chain Strategy and programme of activity that meets and exceeds the needs of the wider business and whilst also delivering optimum claims cost, indemnity spend and customer outcomes both now and in the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic - Design and Delivery of the Home Protect Supply Chain Outcomes strategy to support the delivery of wider claims and business requirements.
• Supplier Performance Management - Supplier performance to be delivered hygienically within contract tolerances but also optimised to deliver targeted and additional value in our defined outcomes of Claims Ratio, Expense Ratio, Customer and Compliance.
• Supplier Contract Management – Manage the team to deliver of controlled, compliant and flexible Supply Chain Solutions, that meet our wider business and claims needs, through best practice contract management and maintenance.
• Supplier Procurement – Work with the wider business to identify where outsourced solutions and procurement best meets our needs and then manage the process of selection to deliver optimum claims spend, expense ratio, customer and compliance outcomes.
• Supplier Assurance and Compliance - Ensure the supply chain operates in such a way as to ensure we are complaint with our regulatory responsibilities and appropriate levels of QA are in place and leveraged by individual suppliers.
• Market Insight – Support and co-sponsor a market insights team that gathers knowledge and market intelligence and shares with key stakeholders to optimise our performance both now and in the future.
• Supply Chain Key Stakeholder Management – Represent Homeprotect Claims Supply Chain interests and those of the wider business at both internal and external stakeholder forums to ensure that we deliver all expectations and requirements.
• Supply Chain Continuous Improvement – Lead and Chair a Supply Chain Outcomes forum that identifies and tracks opportunities to improve supplier performance in Claims Ratio, Expense ratio and Customer outcomes.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Strategic Supply Chain Leadership experience ideally in a claim's environment.
• Executive level stakeholder management experience including board level exposure and relationship management.
• Insight and Intelligence gathering and assimilating capability – be our market expert in all things home claims supply chain related.
• Experience of working in and leading supply chains with a strong focus on regulatory and compliance requirements.
• A track record for identifying and delivering improvements and tangible benefits to claims spend, expense ratio and customer outcomes.

Benefits

We want you to feel rewarded, supported and set up to thrive throughout your career with us.

Learning and Growth: We invest in your development through structured learning, mentoring, buddying, on-the-job experience and cross-functional projects. We support role-relevant professional qualifications where they'll make the biggest difference, and our Lunch and Learn sessions to help you stay connected to what’s going on right across the business.

Health and Wellbeing: Your wellbeing matters here. We offer private healthcare through BUPA, an Employee Assistance Programme covering legal, financial and counselling support for you, a Wellbeing Centre with online tools and resources, regular wellbeing seminars and workshops, annual flu jabs and an annual eye care voucher.

Financial Security and Reward: We offer an annual discretionary bonus scheme upto 30% of your base pay, life insurance at four times your salary, and a pension with Aegon. You'll also receive a significant discount on Homeprotect home insurance - with a friends and family discount too, and a staff referral bonus when someone you recommend joins the team.

Time Off: 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to five additional days each year.

Genuine Flexible Working

We trust our people to work in a way that best suits them - with flexible working to balance the needs of your role with the rhythm of your life. We ask that everyone comes into the office at least once a week, as we believe in-person connection is important for collaboration, culture and building great relationships. You'll receive a homeworking starter kit from day one and can claim towards additional home office equipment within your first six months.

Purpose and Community: We care about more than just the work. Through our charity partnership with Refuge, the UK's largest specialist domestic abuse charity and regular social, wellbeing and charitable events throughout the year, there are plenty of ways to connect, give back and feel part of something bigger.

UNIQUE AS STANDARD

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. We believe in celebrating difference - everything that makes both our customers and our people unique. We consider visa sponsorship on a case by case basis for the right candidate, so please don't let that stop you from applying.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any extra help with your application or have any requirements at any stage of the recruitment journey, we want the process to work for you.

Your data will be maintained in line with our recruitment data privacy policy.

Regulatory Responsibilities

As an FCA regulated insurer, doing the right thing isn't a compliance requirement - it's simply how we work. All colleagues are expected to uphold the FCA Individual Conduct Rules 1-6 and act with integrity, due skill and care, openness with regulators and a genuine commitment to delivering good outcomes for our customers.

You’ll work within approved processes and authority limits, keep accurate and auditable records, protect data under UK GDPR and our information security policies, elevate risks and exceptions promptly, report incidents, breaches and any financial crime or sanctions concerns (including via whistleblowing), support vulnerable customers with reasonable adjustments, and complete all mandatory training to maintain competence.

If the role falls within SM&CR, a supplementary document outlining the key regulatory responsibilities will be provided.

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle - to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry. Our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs, and our customer support teams are on hand when only a real person will do. Our insurance has already empowered hundreds of thousands of people to protect their homes and the things they love. Whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we've got you covered.