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About the Role
In this senior leadership role, you will safeguard Apollo's interests, establish and lead a high-performing in-house legal function, and ensure our strategy is informed by a clear understanding of regulatory and compliance risks and opportunities. You will translate legal strategy into scalable processes, governance, and practical, results-oriented advice across the business. We are seeking an accomplished senior lawyer with a strong track record of building and managing legal teams, operationalising legal services, and partnering with executive stakeholders in a growing, complex business.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, develop, and retain a high-performing legal team, setting clear priorities, accountabilities, and service standards.
- Design and implement the legal function's operating model, including intake and triage, matter management, reporting, policies, templates, technology, and knowledge management.
- Establish risk-based workflows, performance measures, and management information to improve service quality, efficiency, and business visibility.
- Own the legal budget and external counsel strategy, ensuring effective resourcing, disciplined spend, and appropriate use of specialist advisers.
- Act as a trusted adviser to the Executive team and subsidiary boards, translating complex legal and regulatory matters into clear commercial decisions.
- Lead all legal matters across Apollo, spanning commercial and corporate issues, and provide comprehensive legal advice and counsel to the Executive team and the wider business.
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor with a current practising certificate in the UK or Ireland.
- Significant post-qualification experience, including senior in-house leadership within insurance or another highly regulated financial services environment, together with strong expertise in insurance regulation, commercial contract drafting, and negotiation.
- In-depth knowledge of UK insurance regulation and market practices, including different distribution models.
- Demonstrable experience of building, leading, and developing legal teams and operationalising an in-house legal function through effective processes, technology, data, and governance.
- Executive presence and strong communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to advise boards and senior stakeholders and to lead effectively through change.
- Commercial and financial acumen, including experience of managing legal budgets, external counsel, competing priorities, and measurable service performance.
- Experience of leading cross-border legal teams and advising multinational stakeholders across different jurisdictions, cultures, and regulatory environments would be an advantage.
- Experience of advising on the US insurance market and its regulatory environment would be an advantage.
Skills
- Insurance regulation
- Commercial contract drafting
- Negotiation
- UK insurance regulation
- Market practices
- Distribution models
- Legal team leadership
- Legal function operationalisation
- Process management
- Technology implementation
- Data analysis
- Governance
- Executive presence
- Communication
- Influencing
- Interpersonal skills
- Board advisory
- Senior stakeholder advisory
- Change leadership
- Commercial acumen
- Financial acumen
- Budget management
- External counsel management
- Priority management
- Service performance measurement
- Cross-border legal team leadership
- Multinational stakeholder advisory
- US insurance market advisory
Location
- UK
- Ireland
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Significant post-qualification experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor with a current practising certificate in the UK or Ireland
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive and thoughtfully designed reward package
- Fair and attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
Benefits
- 31 days’ annual leave
- Non-contributory pension
- Private medical insurance
About the Company
- Apollo, a Skyward Group company, is an innovation-inspired insurance platform operating at Lloyd’s of London, delivering data-driven and creative solutions across a broad range of risks.
- Inspired by one of our founding investors, Neil Armstrong, the business was built with the same pioneering mindset.
- Since launch in 2009, we have grown into a diversified insurance group offering products across Property, Casualty, Marine, Energy and Transportation, Specialty and Reinsurance, alongside Smart Follow and digital and embedded risk programmes.
- With a team of more than 300 professionals, we continue to grow with purpose, combining underwriting excellence, innovation and collaboration to enable a more resilient and sustainable world.
Equal Opportunity
- At Apollo, people are at the heart of everything we do. We are a diverse, growing team of empowered experts who bring collaboration, innovation and data-driven thinking to every relationship and every risk.
- We believe diversity and inclusion go far beyond targets. They are essential to understanding the global communities we serve and to making better decisions. That’s why we are committed to developing diverse talent at every level and creating an environment where different perspectives are genuinely valued, supported and celebrated.
- We also run a programme of events, training and initiatives designed to recognise both the challenges and opportunities that come with building an inclusive workplace.
- Apollo is committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience where every candidate feels supported and able to perform at their best.