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Mileway, a leader in last mile logistics real estate, seeks a Senior Property Risk Control Manager to enhance their property risk management efforts. This role involves working closely with insurers and stakeholders to manage risks, reduce insurance claims, and ensure the company’s properties are secure. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in property insurance and risk control engineering, along with excellent relationship-building skills. With an international team and a shared commitment to sustainability, this position presents a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth.
Requisition ID2367-Posted -Legal and Compliance-London City-5+
We offer an opportunity you simply won’t find anywhere else. In less than four years, Mileway has grown into Europe’s leader in last mile logistics real estate, with a 550-plus team across more than twenty offices in ten countries.
Are you a driven and ambitious insurance professional, ready to take on a client-side position in a fast-moving international team? We are looking for a property risk control manager who can help us reduce the cost of property insurance claims across Mileway. Your role will help protect our properties and our customers’ businesses while also playing an important part in our ESG agenda.
This is a great opportunity for a risk control specialist who is looking for the chance to develop an improvement programme that directly impacts Mileway’s business, our colleagues, customers, and insurers. The right candidate has not only the drive and discipline to handle the day to day, but the ambition to grow with us as we develop an unparalleled opportunity as the principal player in last mile real estate.
Working at Mileway
We offer an opportunity you simply won’t find anywhere else. Launched in 2019, Mileway has rapidly grown into Europe’s leader in last-mile logistics real estate, with a team of over 550 across more than twenty offices in 11 countries. From the start, Mileway set out to be a different kind of real estate company, with a cloud-based IT infrastructure and a team that combines local expertise with the pooled strengths of a pan-European presence.
Our culture is fast-paced and highly international, with team members from more than 50 countries, bringing diverse perspectives and a “can-do” attitude to everything we do. While we have already achieved a lot, we’re only just getting started – our purpose is to be Europe’s leading provider of last mile logistics real estate, enabling businesses to thrive, driving sustainability forward, and shaping the cities of tomorrow. To get there, we live by our values: Drive, Trust, Grow, Together.
At Mileway, we believe company growth comes from supporting the growth of our combined capabilities. That’s why we offer an in-house learning & development program where personal, professional, and business development go hand in hand, helping you carve out your own unique career path. You’ll be based at our London City office. While we embrace a flexible approach to work, our policy requires working from the office three days a week. To support this, we provide a state-of-the-art technology package to keep you connected at all times.
What you’ll do
• Work closely with the insurers and brokers to manage, facilitate and communicate the companies risk engineering inspection programme.
• Manage insurers risk control reports and recommendations. You’ll work with colleagues, property managers, customers and insurers to prioritise and address recommendations.
• Help Mileway and our customers learn from losses. You’ll investigate and communicate trends and changes that help us the business to improve.
• Continue to develop simple, pragmatic standards and processes to reduce risk. You’ll launch these standards to everyone who needs to know and raise awareness with clear training and materials.
• Support construction and development project teams to ensure that appropriate insurance arrangements are in place, risk controls are embedded at the design stage and any issues are resolved in a collaborative, practical way.
• Regularly visit country teams and key sites to further risk control activity locally.
• Seek and develop opportunities for the business and our customers to reduce the cost of claims and insurance premiums.
• Support general risk management team activities, including preparing and presenting insurance renewal materials, health and safety initiatives, business continuity management and more.
What you’ll bring
• A suitable education background. Ideally, you are educated to degree level, or another recognized international qualification standard such as CII, IRM, IOSH / NEBOSH.
• It is essential that you have at least 3 years experience working with a property insurer in a field engineering, account engineering or loss control engineering position.
• A technical knowledge of property risk control engineering including human element issues, fire protection, modern construction materials and the main fire codes.
• A good knowledge of the usual IT platforms along with the ability to handle large data files for analysis and custom reporting.
• A willingness to learn, pitch in, solve problems and be part of a small flexible team supporting a fast-moving business.
• A track record of building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrable skills that show you can influence others to manage property risks in a new way.
• Resourcefulness and the drive to deliver improvements.
• Good communication skills, ideally with a second European language too.
Our vision is to be the number one gateway to urban communities. To get there, we live our values: Drive, Trust, Grow, Together.