About the Role
Lead the successful transition of acquired insurance portfolios and entities into the business. Own the delivery of complex integration programmes from deal completion through to business-as-usual, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and aligned to commercial objectives. Support transactions before completion through operational due diligence, integration planning and target operating model design.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end transition and integration of acquired portfolios and legal entities from deal close to BAU.
- Own integration delivery, coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve agreed milestones and timelines.
- Act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, clients and senior leadership throughout each integration.
- Develop and manage integration plans, governance structures, steering committee, and risk and issue management.
- Ensure operational delivery remains aligned with the commercial objectives of each transaction.
- Support pre-deal operational due diligence by assessing risks, execution challenges and operational impacts.
- Work with functional leaders to develop target operating models and validate operational cost assumptions.
- Translate due diligence findings into practical and deliverable integration plans.
- Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and enhancing integration methodologies and playbooks.
Requirements
- Right to work in this location
- Experience within (re)insurance or financial services, involving acquisitions, portfolio transfers or post-deal integrations.
- Proven experience delivering complex integration & transition programmes within an M&A environment
- Strong understanding of insurance operations, including areas such as Claims, Actuarial, Finance, Treasury, Reinsurance and Data.
- Commercially aware, with the ability to balance operational delivery against deal economics.
- Excellent programme management, planning and governance skills.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders, including C-suite executives and external clients.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver results without direct line management authority.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience preparing executive-level presentation & updates.
- Resilient, adaptable and comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments with competing priorities.
- Contributing positively to our culture and values.
Location
- UK (London)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Competitive salary & annual bonus
- Health & wellbeing subsidy (£20 per month)
- Generous pension
- Private healthcare from BUPA
- Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days annual leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan (interest free)
- Electric vehicle scheme
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
- Learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
- Hybrid working
- Employee socials and recognition programme
About the Company
- We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd’s, Europe and North America.
- Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios.
- We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.
- As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready.
- Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology.
- This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.
- Our values are what make us stand out.
- We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.
- At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth.
- We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America.
- Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.
- To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.
- We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets.
- We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.
- Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry.
