Head of Insurance - London, United Kingdom - Service Care

Service Care

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job title - Head of Insurance

Location - Farringdon or Sittingbourne (Hybrid working)

Contract - 3 months

Hours - Full time

The Role Summary

Reporting to the Director of Property Information and Insurance, you are responsible for the development and delivery of the insurance strategy, managing the insurance policies and the insurance team.

You'll be an excellent communicator, able to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Be very motivated, social, and want to implement change.

Able to collate significant volumes of information into infographics and have a high degree of literacy and skill in preparing papers.

Your key duties within the role will include:

Develop an insurance strategy which will deliver best practice
Manage the business' insurance policies ensuring appropriate cover is always maintained and remains compliant with our statutory and regulatory obligations
Lead & drive insurance team to efficiently and robustly working through claims and ensuring processes are in place to take the best riskbased decisions and to embed learning from claims into our operations
Keep up to date with legislation, regulations and best practice and ensure our policies and procedures are kept up to date and compliant
Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure we have all the data required by insurers to support our tender process
Ensure our insurance obligations and those of third parties are known & recorded appropriately in a format which supports annual insurance renewal and our ongoing insurance reporting obligations
Build great relationships with all key stakeholders both internal and external
Lead on insurance tenders ensuring we achieve value for money in an increasingly challenging environment
Determine Key Performance Indicators and monitor and report on these
Attend Board and Subsidiary Boards / Committees to present reports as required
Responsible for budget and forecasting for your team

Key requirements

Extensive experience of leading on an insurance programme within a large organisation including renewals and tenders, excess structures, and types of cover. Including but not limited to our property, employers' liability, public liability, motor, and cyber security
Demonstrable experience of successful supplier negotiations
Experience in making finely balanced judgements on a reasoned basis considering lots of complex issues
Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills
Knowledge of the legislation, regulatory and technical frameworks relating to insurance
Proven ability to understand and interpret data / financial information to inform decisions that minimise risk and lead to the delivery of efficient value for money services
Good communication skills, both orally and written, using a range of techniques and tools to convey messages
Able to present complex information in a clear, transparent, and readily understandable manner
Work effectively, in conjunction with others within and outside the directorate to deliver objectives
Experience of maintaining and improving a large data set which changes over time
Desirable to have experience of working within UK social housing sector

If you are interested in this position and meet the above criteria, please send your CV now for consideration.