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Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Senior Legal Counsel, Claims and Underwriting

London, Hybrid

Full Time

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Legal Counsel to support our claims and underwriting functions. The role will have a focus on claims, but the successful candidate will play a crucial role in providing legal advice and support across these functions, delivering business outcomes whilst ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and contributing to the overall success of the organisation.

Your New Role

• Support the Head of Legal, Underwriting and Claims in developing and delivering legal strategy and frameworks for managing legal risk.
• Contribute to the improvement of legal risk management and best practice processes and controls.
• Promote legal risk awareness and a risk management culture across business and support units.
• Undertake legal analysis of and provide advice on strategic and material matters related to claims and underwriting.
• Support the claims function on ad hoc coverage, claims management queries and contract reviews.
• Advise on non-claims related disputes, driving legal strategy and resolution.
• Supporting the Legal team and business on ad hoc underwriting matters, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts with legal soundness and commercial appropriateness.
• Keeping in touch with and analysing legal developments and emerging issues, supporting the Head of Legal manage risks to the business.
• Represent the legal team in advising senior stakeholders and at all levels of business functions.
• Support Head of Legal and Chief Legal Officer deliver group, board, and business projects.
• Ensure the legal team is a trusted and accessible resource for the business.
• Help develop the legal function to align with business needs.
• Mentor and support Legal Counsel and monitor their development.
• Foster strong internal relationships within the legal team.

About You

• Qualified solicitor or barrister with a minimum of 7 years’ post-qualification experience.
• Strong background in (re)insurance law, with experience in insurance coverage and claims related issues.
• Proven ability to manage complex legal matters and projects independently.
• Capable of applying legal skills to work comfortably beyond immediate areas of expertise and responsibility.
• Insurance distribution knowledge and experience.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders (Head of/Director level).
• Strong commercial awareness and pragmatic approach to legal issues.
• In-depth knowledge of UK/EU insurance regulation and its impact on insurance businesses, including underwriting, claims and distribution.
• Good understanding of company law, contract, agency, competition law, tort and statutory obligations.
• Capable of working across multiple matters and specialties and maintain pace.
• Proficiency in MS Office and legal document management tools.

Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (https://qbeeurope.com/careers/flex-qbe/).

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website.

At My Best - QBE Benefits

You are more than your work – and QBE is more than a workplace, which is why we provide you with the benefits, support and flexibility to help you concentrate on living your best life personally and professionally. FOR UK ONLY: As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
• Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.
• Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.
• Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.
• Family friendly policies – we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.
• Short term remote work abroad - you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.
• Sustainable investing - we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes. Our pension strategy supports our net-zero goal to achieve year-on-year reductions in carbon footprint, by investing more in green businesses than the broader market, so your savings are looking after the planet's future, as well as your own.
• Cycle-to-Work – benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000.

To find out more visit our Reward Page

QBE Awards

Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;

AXCO Global Insurance Awards 2024 Winner: Network Management of the Year

Insurance Business UK 5-Star Cyber Awards 2024: QBE rated as a 5-Star Cyber Insurer

UK IT Industry Awards 2023 Winner: Green Technology Innovation of the Year

Working Dads Employer Awards 2023 Winner: Parental Policies Award

Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2023: QBE rated as a 5-Star Employee

You can view all our awards here

Inclusion of Diversity

We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in. We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent. For more information on our strategy targets please take a look at our Careers Page

Accessibility

Here at QBE, we are promoting an accessible workplace for all, which includes supporting candidates to perform at their best during their recruitment process. If you require any accommodations, please make your Talent Acquisition contact aware.

ESG & Sustainability

At QBE, we believe that integrating sustainability into our business helps us deliver on our purpose of enabling a more resilient future. Our three key focus areas include fostering an orderly and inclusive transition to a net-zero economy, enabling a sustainable and resilient workforce, and partnering for growth through innovative, sustainable, and impactful solutions. For further information regarding QBE’s sustainability targets, including our net-zero pledges and inclusion of diversity targets, and our award-winning impact investment initiative ‘Premiums4Good’, please visit our Sustainability homepage and read our latest Sustainability Report

What next? If you have a passion to contribute to QBE’s vision of enabling a more resilient future for our customers and the community, we encourage you to apply! Simply click the “apply” button to submit your CV and other relevant documents, and a member of our friendly Talent Acquisition team will be in contact to discuss your interest further if you meet the requirements of the role.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too?

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen!

Skills:

Coaching for success, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Influencing, Intentional collaboration, Legal Consulting, Legal Risk, Litigation Management, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Process Improvements, Regulatory Compliance, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

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