Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent 

Location: Remote (West Midlands Region)

Job ref: 204277

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Risk Management Surveyor to cover the West Midlands 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!

You’ll carry out desk-top and on-site risk management appraisals and surveys of customer premises within your geographical territory, providing occasional support with surveys across the region, to produce assessment, improvement and valuation reports to a highly professional standard. 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.

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 

• Conduct risk assessments and valuations through desktop and on-site surveys, producing professional reports within designated territories and in line with company standards
• 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.
• Lead and support key accounts Support our growth ambition by delivering specialised services, participating in workshops/seminars, and promoting Ecclesiastical’s risk management proposition
• Share and apply risk insights across the organisation and in external communications to support business initiatives and elevate team-wide knowledge.
• Take Personal Accountability for managing your own schedule and for building your technical knowledge and professional expertise

What you'll need to have 

• Previous experience of undertaking risk surveys/appraisals for underwriting purposes
• Previous Insurance experience and understanding of relevant regulations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of the ability to analyse and produce relevant reports.
• DIP qualified or commitment to achieve within an agreed timescale
• NEBOSH qualified or commitment to achieve
• High levels of personal organisation and accuracy, with the ability to manage own workload.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Car allowance
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
  
• 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

"A supportive, inclusive and motivated team?…without a doubt. An interesting and varied workload, including some iconic and unique properties?…all part of the day job. Being part of something much bigger that really makes a difference?... Most certainly. The best job in insurance? … Probably! If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, then I’d love to hear from you."

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.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

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*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26