Senior Insurance Market Engagement

Senior Insurance Market Engagement Associate
Division:
Supervision, Policy & Competition
Department:
Market Analysis & Policy

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £61,800 and London from £57,700 to £68,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
• This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory
• Your recruitment contact is Tahir Khan via  Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.

SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). Sitting in the Consumer Investments (CI) directorate, the CI Market Analysis and Policy (MAP) department leads policy, strategy, and risk identification across the consumer investments market through four specialist teams focused on market insights, market analysis, advice policy, and distribution policy.

• Design and deliver an annual stakeholder engagement strategy and workplan, agreed at Insurance Reg Co, to ensure clear objectives, optimal frequency, and senior-level alignment that strengthens industry relationships and drives regulatory confidence.
• Create compelling briefings and speeches for senior management, aligned with the insurance strategy engagement calendar, to influence key audiences.
• Develop and maintain a dynamic library of success stories and communication lines, supported by robust data, to consistently showcase achievements and amplify our strategic narrative across all channels.
• Build and nurture strong relationships with Strategic Comms teams and key internal and external stakeholders, including trade bodies, to foster collaboration.
• Apply sound judgment to feed insights from stakeholder engagement into analysis and risk horizon scanning, enabling proactive decision-making and strengthening our resilience against emerging risks.

• Prior experience of working with regulation of the general and/or life insurance sectors, gained from a firm or a regulatory, government, professional services, consultancy or related environment.
• Proven experience drafting speeches for public events and C-suite audiences.
• Proven experience of building and maintaining relationships with senior leaders in the insurance and/or funeral plan sectors, including firms, consultancies and trade bodies.

• Strong analytical capability with an ability to quickly and clearly draw out key messages from a broad and varied strategy.
• Strong written, oral and in-person communication and influencing skills.
• An ability to produce consistently high-quality output to tight deadlines.
• The ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including delivering difficult messages.
• Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities, working at pace and adopting a flexible and pragmatic approach to an often-demanding workload.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work.
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better…