Senior Risk Business Partner - Personal Lines

Senior Risk Business Partner – Personal Lines 

Salary : National: Circa 75000 and London : Circa £90000

Locations: Norwich, London, Bristol and Perth 

Do you thrive on combining your risk expertise with strategic insight and stakeholder influence? 

This is a great job for someone with a strong background in General Insurance (GI) and Personal Lines, who’s ready to take the next step in their career.

If you have a deep interest in risk management, regulation, and compliance and want to make a real impact in a dynamic, customer-focused business this could be the perfect fit. 

A bit about the job: 

We’re looking for a Senior Risk Business Partner to join our Personal Lines team.

You’ll play a key role in providing trusted, independent risk insight and challenge to 1st line leaders and their teams.

Working closely with the Head of Risk – PL and a wide network of risk and compliance colleagues, you’ll help shape and oversee robust business and change planning across the UK GI business. 

You’ll represent the entirety of the Risk Function using our One Risk approach—bringing in the right experts at the right time to ensure effective oversight and assurance.

Your work will help build a clear, timely understanding of the Personal Lines risk profile, supporting better outcomes for customers, regulators, and the business. 

Skills and experience we’re looking for: 

• Experienced risk and General Insurance professional with a broad understanding of Personal Lines, the UK (FCA/PRA) regulatory landscape, general insurance market dynamics and commerciality. 

• Strong analytical and communication skills to identify and convey complex risk information in a clear and concise manner, which facilitates valuable collaboration between Risk teams and business areas. 

• Comfortable working across a variety of risk categories (e.g. conduct, operational, change, strategy, pricing), calling upon and working with technical SMEs/colleagues to support as needed. 

• Can operate in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities across spectrums such as proposition development, operations, regulation and change programmes. 

• Able to develop effective relationships at all levels across all lines of defence. Also able to demonstrate great personal and professional integrity and credibility. 

What you’ll get for this role:  

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.

And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  

We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.  

• Salary: National: Circa 75000 and London : Circa £90000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)  

• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.  

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.  

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.  

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.  

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.  

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.  

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.  

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.  

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.  

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.  

Aviva is for everyone:  

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply.  

We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.  

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.  

Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.  

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here  

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job.

Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.  

We’d love it if you could submit your application online.  

If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Kirthi Kanikireddy a call on 02045922145 or send an email to kirthi.kanikireddy@aviva.com