Skills, Know-how and Experience

Our ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in managing and leading complex risk and/or insurance operations. Previous experience in a software company would be advantageous, but not essential. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to really develop our insurance programmes, so you’ll need to be self-starter, able to work on your own initiative.

Alongside this, you’ll have

• Significant experience of building, embedding, and managing risk and/or insurance governance practices
• Up to date awareness of best practice risk and insurance management techniques
• Strong delivery focus, ability to perform on a timely basis and with accuracy, and to work well under pressure within a changing environment
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with colleagues and all levels of management within the company
• You’ll also have a relevant professional qualification (i.e. ARM, CPCU, RIMS-CRMP)

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that adequate and appropriate coverage is maintained at all times for all Sage entities.
• Recognizes and responds to strategic threats and opportunities that may impact Sage’s global insurance programs, including monitoring of complex financial issues that may impact the insurance market.
• Leads the response to significant insurance events and claims that impact any of Sage’s global entities through the application of policies and processes.
• Producing high quality output, including claims reports that are factually accurate and articulate the nature of issues identified.
• Identifies the need for new tools and vendors and leads their evaluation.
• Drives significant improvement in key processes/standards and designs and implements new processes/standards.
• Provides insurance leadership for significant projects or workstreams, including mergers, acquisitions and disposals.