Risk Management Surveyor (Home Counties/East Midlands)
Ecclesiastical Insurance are recruiting for a Risk Management Surveyor. This is a homebased role covering the Home Counties/ East Midlands.
We usually respond within three days
Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Homebased with travel in the Home counties/East Midlands Region (Covering Oxfordshire, Reading, Milton Keynes, Luton and Northampton)
Job ref: 202952
About the role
Following a period of training, centred at our Gloucester academy, this homebased Risk Management Surveyor opportunity allows for a great deal of flexibility and empowered ways of working.
Risk Management has been at the heart of our specialist underwriting and customer proposition for almost a century and we have a reputation for market leading expertise in the Private Client, Education, Leisure, Care, Charity, Faith and Real Estate sectors. 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!
You’ll have a diverse and challenging variety of survey assignments across all of our customer groups and you’ll receive comprehensive technical training and ongoing support with your development. We are ideally looking for risk surveyors/professionals however we also welcome applications from trainees, graduates or individuals with transferable skills who aspire to become Risk Management Surveyors.
You’ll carry out desk-top and on-site risk management appraisals and surveys of customer premises within your geographical territory to produce assessment, improvement and valuation reports to a highly professional standard.
Key responsibilities
- Proactively build positive internal and external relationships to facilitate the delivery of exceptional service as part of Ecclesiastical’s Risk Management team.
- Work collaboratively with claims, underwriting and the wider business to support the free exchange of technical risk information and achievement of Business initiatives/objectives.
- Maintain a professional and positive approach to work situations, supporting change that benefits the wider business.
- Undertaking desktop and on-site valuation and/or risk management survey assessments of insured premises in line with agreed survey authorities within a designated geographical territory and other geographical areas (as may be required from time to time).
- Plan, prioritise and manage individual workloads to enable efficient delivery to agreed service standards.
- Produce suitable valuation, risk survey, risk improvement reports in accordance with published guidelines, to a professional standard, and delivered in a timely manner.
- Promote/support the Ecclesiastical Risk proposition through attendance at/delivery of ‘Risk’ workshops/seminars to brokers and customers, as required by the business.
- Take responsibility for building own technical knowledge and professional expertise through development and implementation of a meaningful PDP which supports self- development and benefits the wider survey team.
- Proactively contribute risk insight to internal and external events, communications and publications.
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Confident and influential communicator at all levels.
- Strong mathematical/numerical skills (ability to accurately calculate building valuations/sum insured calculations with training)
- Self-motivated with a desire to learn and apply knowledge
- Organisational and problem-solving capabilities and willingness to work outside own comfort zone to support wider business and personal development opportunities.
- Experience completing risk survey assessments (Preferential)
- Good appreciation of British architecture, design, construction and fire detection, protection and suppression systems.
- Commitment to achieve Dip CII and/or International Certificate in Risk Management within an agreed period.
- Commitment to achieve NEBOSH qualification
What we offer
- A competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Company car allowance
- Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
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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
- Up to £300 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
About us
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. 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.
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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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- Company
- Ecclesiastical Insurance UK
- Role
- Surveyors
- Locations
- United Kingdom
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Permanent - Full Time
Risk Management Surveyor (Home Counties/East Midlands)
Ecclesiastical Insurance are recruiting for a Risk Management Surveyor. This is a homebased role covering the Home Counties/ East Midlands.
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