Description
We are seeking an Insurance Manager to lead the delivery of our insurance and risk financing strategy for Argos, helping to protect our business against strategic, operational, and emerging risks.
As our Insurance Manager, you will bring deep insurance expertise and commercial thinking to the role, leading the delivery of our insurance and risk financing strategy and helping us find the right balance between commercial insurance and self-insurance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Taking the lead on the delivery and governance of our insurance programmes, overseeing the placement and renewal of a broad portfolio including Property Damage and Business Interruption, Cyber, Directors & Officers, Crime, Marine and Transit, Construction, Environmental, Motor Fleet, Employee Benefits, and Terrorism
- Keeping an eye on the changing risk landscape, helping us understand emerging risks across areas such as cyber, climate, geopolitical, supply chain, and technology
- Managing key relationships with global brokers, insurers, claims handlers, and third-party administrators, leading insurer negotiations and ensuring we continue to get the right value, service, and programme structure for the business
- Providing expert oversight of complex and significant claims, working with our partners to maximise insurance recoveries, understand root causes, and identify opportunities to prevent future losses
- Acting as a trusted adviser to leaders across the business, making complex insurance and risk matters easier to understand and using technical expertise, commercial judgement, and insight to influence decisions and drive continuous improvement
Requirements:
- Significant experience within corporate insurance, broking, underwriting, claims, or risk management
- Strong experience of complex, multi-line insurance programmes, including placement, renewals, policy wordings, limits, deductibles, exclusions, and insurer negotiations
- Strong understanding of complex and catastrophic claims management, including coverage analysis, recoveries, root cause analysis, and loss prevention
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to analyse risk, exposure, and loss information and make evidence-based recommendations
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to explain complex insurance matters and provide constructive challenge to senior leaders
Benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- Colleague discount of 10% on shopping online and in-store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary
- Annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy up to an additional week's holiday
- Private healthcare
- Season ticket loans, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
- Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave