Job Description

Introduction

At RSA, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers. We are a proud member of the Intact family, we feel part of something bigger, with a presence in North America, the UK and Europe.



We have an opportunity for a Head of Partnerships - MGA & Schemes to join our great Partnerships team on a hybrid basis.



The following locations would also be considered as well as London - Birmingham, Bristol, Horsham, Maidstone, Peterborough, Chelmsford.

Your Role

The purpose of this role is to drive the delivery of our proposition to our delegated authority partners and to ensure that our partners are exercising the authority we delegate to them responsibly and effectively, in order to deliver our vision and strategy.



You will lead a team to generate profitable growth, maintain retention of partners and deliver an excellent NPS. You will do this by helping them to win new delegated authority partnerships and secure growth within existing partnerships.



You will set and track delivery of partner income targets and play a leading role in achieving our profitability objectives. Your role will be responsible for, setting the strategy for our partners, ensuring the financials are achieved, making sure that the service is delivered to our partners and manage the operational side of the partnership arrangements.

About You

To be successful in your role you will need to have some, or all of the following; an understanding of running an insurance account, experience of building and leveraging external market partnerships of all shapes and sizes, experience of working at a strategic level with external partners and negotiating commercial agreements and an ability to bring a proposition to life and inspire your team to deliver it.



Knowledge of Specialty Lines business would be beneficial. However, we are prepared to consider someone from a Commercial or Personal Lines background.



You should have experience of working at a strategic level with external partners and have the ability to negotiate effective commercial agreements.

What we offer you

At RSA we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future.



We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Our employee promise allows you to shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.

About Us

Our employee promise is to Shape the Future, Win as a Team and Grow with us, and we support the career development of all RSA colleagues. With our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion throughout all that we do, we ensure that every member of RSA has the opportunity to progress their career.



We understand that home life is a priority and are happy to consider reduced hours or job shares.



Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you.



As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.



If you wish to be considered under the scheme then please answer yes to the question Do you wish to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme? in RSAs application form.



Job Reference: UK002838