Working hours: This role is available on a part-time, job-share and full-time basis

Location: Home Based, UK

Closing date for applications: 2nd April 2025

The opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Global Casualty team for Zurich Resilience Solutions guiding our European Casualty Risk Engineering teams. This pivotal role will lead the development of technical capabilities while driving consultancy initiatives across the region. This role involves shaping high-impact solutions, enhancing and expanding technical expertise, fostering internal and external relationships, standardising best practices and ensuring the delivery of innovative value-driven consulting services.

There is a requirement for proven leadership and influencing skills to set and align the strategic direction for the region. Effectively inspire and coach a team of Risk Engineers and be able to deliver technically in General/Products Liability.

The role is home based but successful candidates will need to regularly travel domestically and 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?

Leadership: Provide strong leadership, coaching and technical mentoring to the Casualty risk engineering teams across Europe.
Risk Assessment: Oversee the delivery of high-quality Casualty risk assessments and mitigation services. Maintain technical excellence in evaluating hazards across various industries and set cost-effective risk mitigation priorities for customers in coordination with their risk management teams.
Technical guidance & Innovation: Act as the Senior Technical authority on Casualty risk matters, providing expert guidance on hazard control, safety management and regulatory compliance.
Customer engagement: Support key customers and brokers with executive level risk engineering consultation.
Stakeholder collaboration: Collaborate closely with underwriting and claims to integrate risk engineering insights into underwriting decisions.
Regional oversight & performance: Oversee resource allocation and service delivery across Europe, monitor team KPIs and the quality of risk engineering services.
Business development & thought leadership: Act as a visible thought leader in the industry, representing our Casualty risk engineering expertise at industry forums, conferences and with major clients. Stay current with emerging risks and trends and guide the team in developing new services or guidance to address these challenges.

What are we looking for?

Degree in Engineering, Safety Management, Risk Management or equivalent.
Extensive technical expertise in Casualty Risk Engineering, preference for General and Product Liability expertise.
Experienced people leader.
Published thought leader.
Stakeholder management.
Excellent presentation and customer relationship skills and experienced at influencing and negotiation.
Excellent command of English (written and spoken) is required. Additional language skills relevant to Europe are advantageous give the broad geographic scope of the role.

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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