Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
We are looking for an experienced Senior Insurance Manager to lead and manage the insurance programme for Irwin Mitchell. This includes overseeing renewals, managing claims, and ensuring compliance with insurer conditions. The role is highly visible and influential, working closely with senior stakeholders to manage risk and provide assurance across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
1. Manage the insurance process for the business, including Professional Indemnity, Cyber, Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, Employment Practices Liability Insurance, and Business Interruption.
2. Handle a high volume of professional indemnity claims and liaise with brokers and insurers.
3. Actively manage the insurance programme and any associated conditions or side projects.
4. Identify and manage risks, ensuring insurance coverage aligns with business needs.
5. Provide guidance and training on insurance and risk management best practices.
About You
Experience Required
We are open to two types of backgrounds:
6. Legal services experience with strong understanding of risk and professional indemnity.
7. Insurance professional with experience managing corporate insurance programmes.
Essential Skills:
8. Broad insurance knowledge.
9. Excellent communication and influencing skills.
10. Understanding of Risk Management in relation to insurance.
11. SRA/FCA/Regulatory understanding
12. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
13. Knowledge of legal procedures-particularly policy wordings and contract law
14. Ability to network and proactively build relationships across a range of internal departments
15. Successful track record in handling insurance negotiations between Client, Broker and Insurers
16. Strong commitment to deliver results and make a meaningful contribution in a team environment
Desirable Skills
17. ACII Qualification
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
18. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
19. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
20. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
21. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.