Senior Risk Management Consultant (Health & Safety)

Ecclesiastical Insurance; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK is looking for a Senior Risk Management Consultant to support health and safety across various sectors. The role involves conducting risk assessments, fostering relationships, and supporting growth strategies. Ideal candidates will have experience in health and safety, strong communication skills, and CMIOSH certification. This position offers competitive salary, hybrid working, and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Generous annual bonus scheme

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

£200 annual charity grant

Volunteering day

Employee Assistance Programme

Full study support for qualifications

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health and safety across public, private and third sector organisations.
• Experience with liability surveys and safeguarding audits.
• Good understanding of insurance market interactions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct on-site casualty risk appraisals and produce reports.
• Foster strong internal and external relationships.
• Support the growth of the casualty proposition.

Skills

Health and safety expertise

Strong communication skills

Relationship building

Education

Chartered Membership of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH)

Job description

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Senior Risk Management Consultant (Health & Safety) to cover the Southern region.

Risk Management has been at the heart of Ecclesiastical’s specialist underwriting and customer proposition for almost a century and we have a reputation for market leading expertise in the high net worth, education, care, charity, faith, real estate and commercial sectors that occupy heritage buildings. We insure some of the country’s leading landmark and most iconic locations and, as the country’s largest insurer of Grade 1 listed buildings, our aim is to protect the irreplaceable, a truly privileged position helping to protect our fabulous built heritage!

Operating across the UK, you will have a willingness to travel, to deliver underwriter, broker and customer support. You will have a unique opportunity to apply your specialist liability skills, including producing assessment and improvement reports to a highly professional standard. You will also support with the acquisition of new customers.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing

• Risk Assessment & Reporting: Conduct on-site Casualty risk appraisals (health, safety, liability, safeguarding) and produce professional risk survey reports across designated territories.
• Relationship Building & Collaboration: Foster strong internal and external relationships. Internally, working closely with claims, underwriting, and other teams to support business goals and share technical risk insights. Externally, foster Insurance market relationships with key customers and brokers.
• Proposition Development: Support our growth ambition by helping to enhance our casualty proposition.
• Training & Thought Leadership: Deliver risk management training to customers and represent Ecclesiastical at workshops, seminars, and industry events to promote our Expertise.
• Insight & Knowledge Sharing: Contribute risk intelligence to publications and events, and actively share expertise and insights across the organisation to support broader business activities.

What you’ll need to have

• Significant experience in health and safety across a breadth of public, private and third sector organisations (care sector experience is preferential)
• Experience of undertaking liability surveys, including safeguarding audits/reviews for underwriting purposes
• Chartered Membership of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH)
• A good appreciation of the insurance market, including the commercial interaction between the various stakeholders, in relation to liability matters
• A willingness to work outside own comfort zone to support wider business and personal development opportunities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 7.5% and 30%
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager

“We’re a team of specialist risk experts with a strong reputation for excellence in the insurance market. This is an exciting opportunity to support in shaping and delivering our casualty proposition, from conducting on-site risk appraisals to sharing insights and delivering training that makes a real impact. At Ecclesiastical, our charitable ownership means we’re driven by purpose and your expertise will help us make a meaningful difference for our customers and the communities we serve”.

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135‑year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

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