Jobs at Howden Re

Provide international HR administrative support across the employee lifecycle: onboarding, contracts, promotions, transfers, leavers, payroll data preparation, Workday data maintenance, reporting, compliance with GDPR, local employment practices, and continuous improvement of HR processes.

The Senior Technical Engineer provides technical leadership for Azure solutions, oversees delivery and engineering, and ensures compliance with standards while mentoring team members.

The Commercial Account Executive will build strong relationships with B2B clients, win new business, and collaborate with the Branch Manager to achieve sales objectives.

Coordinate and deliver DEI initiatives and events, embed inclusive practices across recruitment, track DEI action plans, produce reports and insights, draft communications, manage stakeholder queries, and provide administrative support to HR, Talent Acquisition and DEI projects.

Accountable for defining, implementing, testing and maintaining IT disaster recovery across on‑prem, hybrid and cloud environments. Manage vendor-delivered DR services, maintain recovery documentation and inventories, coordinate DR testing and assurance, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive continuous improvement of DR tooling and processes.

Support the HR Business Partner to deliver commercial HR services across Central Functions, Private Clients and Tech. Provide day-to-day HR support, assist recruitment, onboarding, performance and talent management, coordinate change activity, liaise with Centres of Expertise, administer rewards processes, analyse HR data, and act as a contact for employee relations and lifecycle matters.

Maintain accurate people data and systems, produce dashboards and ad-hoc analyses (attrition, leave, surveys), partner with HRIS, Finance and IT to improve HR data quality, and deliver insights via SQL, Databricks and Power BI to support HR and business stakeholders.

Lead and govern end-to-end IT Change Management within a regulated, global insurance environment. Chair CAB/ECAB, manage risk and third-party change delivery, ensure compliance and operational resilience, align changes with configuration and release processes, produce performance reporting, and drive continual improvement.

Lead AI architecture governance, assess vendors and tooling, provide technical oversight of internal and third-party AI delivery, set standards for agent development, retrieval, prompt engineering, and evaluation, and act as a technical partner to the Head of AI to embed governed, build-first AI capability across the Group.

Provide holistic financial planning and wealth management advice across investments, pensions, protection and tax-efficient strategies. Build and maintain client relationships, conduct reviews, ensure FCA compliance, identify growth opportunities, develop introducer relationships, and supervise, coach and support a defined group of wealth advisers while contributing to training and risk-management activities.

The HR Business Partner will implement HR solutions, support leadership with people initiatives, manage transformational change, and build relationships to meet strategic business goals.

Hands-on network engineer supporting a hybrid on-premises and cloud global infrastructure. Design, implement, troubleshoot, upgrade and decommission network appliances/VMs; handle incidents, projects and change requests; collaborate with cloud, data centre and regional teams; maintain WAN, LAN/WiFi, firewall, VPN and security configurations; use ServiceNow and LogicMonitor; perform root cause and problem management to improve availability.

The Claims Manager oversees a team in the Claims Division, implementing strategies, enhancing service delivery, and ensuring team performance. Responsibilities include team leadership, fostering a positive culture, and managing client complaints.

Lead and resolve complex liability (and some property/personal accident) claims for sports clients, liaising with insurers and third parties, preparing documentation, negotiating settlements, supervising delegated authority, mentoring juniors, ensuring regulatory and company compliance, and contributing to internal projects and client relationship management.

Lead and govern end-to-end international payroll across multiple countries and outsourced providers, ensuring accurate, compliant processing. Manage providers, reconciliations, reporting, audits and payroll-related projects. Partner with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal to address legislative change and risk. Drive standardisation, automation and integrations for acquisitions/expansion, coach payroll team members, and ensure data integrity and GDPR compliance.

Act as the finance partner to Howden CAP, providing reporting, analysis, budgets, forecasts and financial models to support decision-making. Improve management reporting, financial controls and systems, challenge performance, and support senior managers and international business units across M&A, tax, contingent risks, credit, surety and emerging insurance lines.

Serve as trusted advisor to the Group Chief Data Officer to shape and deliver data, analytics and AI strategy. Coordinate business planning, budgeting, vendor management, governance, transformation initiatives, acquisition integrations, and executive communications. Build reporting, track outcomes, and foster a global data community to accelerate value from data and AI.

Provide insurance advice to consumer and small commercial clients, build relationships, identify needs, create tailored insurance solutions, complete industry qualifications, and develop business via sales and client service with on-the-job training and coaching.

Manage complex property, liability and business interruption claims for renewable energy, provide technical oversight and mentoring, engage clients/brokers/insurers, negotiate resolutions, ensure compliant processes and reporting, and drive operational improvements.

Provide end-to-end operational support for M&A insurance transactions, managing documentation, recordkeeping, invoicing and payments, and client/broker communication. Ensure compliance with internal procedures, maintain accurate company system records, monitor post-completion deliverables, assist due diligence, and guide junior team members to deliver high-quality, timely transaction execution.