Senior Loss Adjuster - Technical and Special Risk

Sedgwick; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance firm seeks a Senior Loss Adjuster specializing in Technical and Special Risks in the UK. This role involves handling complex, high-value claims across a diverse portfolio, including property and engineering losses. You will provide strategic direction and technical expertise throughout the claims lifecycle. Ideal candidates will have significant loss adjusting expertise, chartered status or similar qualifications, and the ability to influence at senior levels. This position offers competitive compensation and a supportive hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Competitive senior‑level salary

Private healthcare plan

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Significant experience handling complex, high‑value, or specialist claims.
• Strong policy interpretation skills and complex causation assessment.
• Proven ability to engage at senior level in challenging environments.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of complex, high-value, and technically demanding claims.
• Lead investigations from first notification through to settlement.
• Provide strategic direction, technical authority, and sound judgement.

Skills

Extensive loss adjusting expertise

Technical authority

Stakeholder influence

Leadership through expertise

Organisation and resilience

Education

Chartered or nearing chartered status in a relevant field (ACII, ACILA, AICLA, MRICS, ICE / CEng or ACA)

Job description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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Senior Loss Adjuster - Technical and Special Risk

Be the authority businesses rely on when complex and high‑stakes risks demand expert leadership.

Job Location: Any of our UK offices

Job Type: Permanent

Remuneration: Competitive salary commensurate with seniority, skills, experience, and qualifications

We have an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Technical & Special Risks Loss Adjuster in the United Kingdom

As a Senior Loss Adjuster specialising in Technical and Special Risks, you will take ownership of complex, high‑value, and technically demanding claims across a diverse portfolio. These may include major property and engineering losses, complex business interruption, cyber‑related incidents, energy and infrastructure risks, and other specialist or non‑standard exposures.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will lead investigations from first notification through to settlement, providing strategic direction, technical authority, and sound judgement throughout the lifecycle of each claim. You will work closely with insurers, brokers, insureds, legal advisers, engineers, and forensic specialists, ensuring outcomes are fair, commercially balanced, and fully defensible.

This role places you at the forefront of critical situations where claims are financially significant, reputationally sensitive, or operationally complex. You will act as a trusted advisor, translating highly technical findings into clear, credible guidance while maintaining robust control of coverage, quantum, and liability considerations.

Whether working flexibly from home, from one of our UK offices, or attending site and stakeholder meetings, you will be supported by a senior technical network and a culture that recognises expertise. We invest heavily in specialist capability, professional development, and industry leadership to ensure you remain at the cutting edge of technical adjusting.

This is a role for experienced professionals who thrive in complexity, influence outcomes with confidence, and want to further their career within a market‑leading Technical & Special Risks practice.

The experience and skills you will bring

• Extensive loss adjusting expertise: Significant experience handling complex, high‑value, or specialist claims within technical, engineering, property, energy, cyber, or emerging risk classes.
• Technical authority: Strong policy interpretation skills and the ability to assess complex causation, liability, and quantum with confidence.
• Qualified: Chartered or nearing chartered status in a relevant field – be that ACII, ACILA, AICLA, MRICS, ICE / CEng or ACA
• Stakeholder influence: Proven ability to engage at senior level with insurers, brokers, legal counsel, engineers, and insureds, often in challenging or contentious environments.
• Leadership through expertise: Comfortable providing direction, challenge, and insight to drive claims to timely and defensible resolution.
• Organisation and resilience: Ability to manage a demanding caseload involving critical timelines, sensitive matters, and high financial exposure.

Professional development and progression

• Advanced technical learning: Continued development within technical and special risk disciplines through structured training, expert collaboration, and complex claim exposure.
• Professional recognition: Full support towards Chartered status with the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA), where applicable, and ongoing CPD.

What we’ll give you for this role

Remuneration & more

• Competitive senior‑level salary
• Self‑Invested Personal Pension Scheme (SIPP)
• Annual holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible, hybrid working arrangements

Health & support

• Private healthcare plan (including pre‑existing conditions)
• Life assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Employee assistance programme for wellbeing support

Other benefits

• Voluntary benefits including green car scheme, dental cover, cycle‑to‑work scheme, season ticket loans, wellbeing tools, and digital GP services
• Discounts on a wide range of products and services

This isn’t just a senior role — it’s a platform for influence

At Sedgwick, senior technical professionals shape how complex claims are managed across the market. Through Sedgwick University, you will have access to the most comprehensive learning and development ecosystem in the industry, with advanced role‑specific training, leadership pathways, and opportunities for continued professional education.

You’ll join a community of subject‑matter experts who lead by knowledge, integrity, and impact — protecting businesses, reputations, and livelihoods.

Next steps for you

If you’re ready to apply your expertise at a senior level and influence the outcome of some of the market’s most complex claims, apply now.

If you meet most — but not all — of the criteria, we still encourage you to apply. We value depth of experience, professional judgement, and potential as much as formal qualifications.

We are proud to operate a zero‑tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital or family status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Following the closing date, applications will be reviewed and shortlisted candidates may be invited to interview (virtually or in person).

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Sedgwickis an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Sedgwick retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.