Head of Broker & Partnerships Reserving (Maternity Cover)

Ageas · London · £100,000–£132,000 (stated in the posting)

Job Title: Head of Broker & Partnerships Reserving (Maternity Cover)
Target Start Date: December 2026
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract until February 2028, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £100,000 - £132,000
Location: Hybrid, London - once a week
Closing Date for applications: Thursday 3rd September

Head of Broker & Partnerships Reserving: We are pleased to share an opportunity for the role of Head of Broker & Partnerships Reserving within the Actuarial function.

Reporting to the Chief Actuary, this role will be accountable for leading actuarial reserving for various portfolios across Motor and Home Lines of Business. The successful candidate will ensure high-quality reserve setting and reporting, provide clear analysis of portfolio performance, and support the wider business through robust, actionable insight.

This is a senior leadership role with ownership of and accountability for reserving outputs. The role requires a strong balance of technical judgement, delivery execution and stakeholder influence, operating within centrally defined methodologies, controls and governance frameworks.

Over the course of the contract term, the wider team and company will continue undergoing an integration journey – this role will therefore need to demonstrate strong leadership through periods of significant change.

You will also be required to occasionally travel to our Eastleigh office.

Main Responsibilities as Head of Broker & Partnerships Reserving:

Leading reserve setting for various portfolios, including assumptions, methodologies and reporting outputs.
Owning movement analysis, portfolio performance commentary and reserving committee papers.
Delivering segment-level claims analysis and identifying emerging trends across Motor and Home.
Ensuring reserving controls and KRI reporting are delivered in line with governance frameworks.
Leading and developing a team of actuarial professionals, allocating work and managing delivery across reserving cycles.
Partnering closely with senior stakeholders across Actuarial, Claims, Underwriting, Pricing and Finance.
Supporting audit and regulatory engagement in relation to reserving.
Providing cross-portfolio insight by working collaboratively with other Reserving leadership teams.

Skills and experience you need as Head of Broker & Partnerships Reserving:

Significant General Insurance reserving experience, with the ability to own reserving cycles from end-to-end.
A minimum of 7 years’ actuarial experience, within a General Insurance environment.
Strong technical reserving expertise, including assumptions, methodologies, controls and governance.
Proven experience leading, managing and developing high-performing actuarial teams (including the direct management and development of people managers/team leaders).
Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to communicate complex actuarial insight clearly to senior audiences.
A collaborative leadership style, with a focus on technical rigour, accountability and continuous improvement.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas:We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
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