Head of Casualty & Business Resilience UK
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Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share and full-time basis
Location: Home Based
Closing Date for applications: 22nd August 2025
The opportunity:
This is an exciting opportunity to work within Zurich Resilience Solutions UK to lead and develop our UK Casualty and Business Resilience Risk Engineering teams. This instrumental role will require a clear vision & strategy and a leader who can build a consulting culture and capability. This role involves shaping high-impact solutions, enhancing and expanding technical expertise, fostering internal and external relationships and ensuring the delivery of innovative value-driven consulting services.
Demonstrated success in leading high-performing teams and achieving commercial growth is a core requirement.
The role is home based but successful candidates will need to regularly travel domestically and occasionally overseas.
Working with Zurich Resilience Solutions as part of the wider Zurich Insurance Group will allow you to further develop your career in a diverse and inclusive environment presenting a wide range of development opportunities both locally and globally.
Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.
What will you be doing?
- Strategic Leadership, lead initiatives to grow revenue and deliver services profitably, ensuring commercial targets are met through strategic execution and efficient delivery.
- Team Leadership & People Development, provide strong leadership, coaching and technical mentoring to the Casualty risk engineering teams.
- Partnerships & Customer engagement, support key customers and brokers with executive level risk engineering consultation.
- Stakeholder collaboration, collaborate closely with business partners to integrate risk engineering insights into market facing teams.
- Track teams’ income and productivity to deliver agreed targets, while controlling the cost base to deliver profitable results.
- Business development & thought leadership, act as a visible thought leader in the industry, representing our expertise at industry forums, conferences and with major clients. Stay current with emerging risks and trends and guide the team in developing new propositions to address these challenges.
- Experienced people leader
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Great communicator.
- Experience in change management.
- Strong stakeholder management.
- Commercial & Market experience
- Strong fiscal discipline with experience of managing budgets preferably in a P&L environment.
- Ideally a Degree in Engineering, Safety Management, Risk Management or equivalent.
- Extensive technical expertise in Casualty Risk Engineering, Business Resilience or Enterprise Risk Management, preference for General and Product Liability expertise.
What will you get in return?
Everyone’s different. That’s why at Zurich, we offer a wide range of employee benefits so our people can choose what fits them and their life. Our benefits provide real flexibility so our people can make considered choices and tailor their benefits throughout the year. Our benefits include 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme, annual company bonus, private medical insurance and the option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday.
Follow the link for more information about our benefits - Employee benefits | Working at Zurich Insurance UK
Who we are:
At Zurich we aspire to be one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world and the best global insurer. Together we’re creating a brighter future for our customers, our people and our planet.
With over 55,000 employees in more than 170 countries, you’ll feel the support of being part of a strong and stable company who are a long-standing player in the insurance industry.
We’ve made a promise to each other and every employee; to focus on sustainable impact, to care about each other’s wellbeing, to use our diverse expertise to be curious and optimistic and to develop the skills needed for our future.
If you're interested in working in a dynamic and challenging environment for a company that recognises and rewards your creativity, initiatives and contributions - then Zurich could be just the place for you. Be part of something great.
Our Culture
At Zurich, our sense of community is strong and we’re particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion, which we’ve won numerous awards for. We want our people to bring the whole of themselves to work and ensure everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, beliefs or culture. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our customers, and so are committed to treating all of our applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their actual or assumed background, disability or any other protected characteristic.
We’ve an environment that places a real importance on our people’s wellbeing from a physical, mental, social and financial perspective. We work with our wellbeing partners and industry experts to provide the best advice and access to a wealth of lifestyle support. We’re also committed to continuous improvement, and we offer access to a comprehensive range of training and development opportunities.
We’re passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity. Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, is one of the longest-established corporate trusts in the UK. In that time, we’ve awarded grants and volunteered time to deserving causes in the UK valued at over £90 million.
So, make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported, Love what you do. Work for us.
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