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Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities, and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to provide beautifully designed insurance, innovating to give our clients the maximum benefit with minimum hassle. Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions, and contingency, covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our culture
We employ over 2,000 people globally, hosting a wonderful diversity of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought & personal accountability.
Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people & customers – 1) Be bold 2) Strive for better 3) Do the right thing. Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organisation in touch with the changing world around us – our ambitious I&D & Sustainability targets are testament to this.
Early careers at Beazley
From spaceships to subsea ships and from major sporting events to celebrity concerts, specialist insurance is an exciting place to be. Beazley is the largest Lloyd’s syndicate, and the market leader in products such as Cyber – you can read our full story back on the main Early Careers Academy Page.
There’s no better place to launch your career! All programmes have been designed by respected senior leaders who sponsor the programmes and you – setting you up for continued success. All programmes have personal and professional development built in, and a fantastic support network set-up to help you thrive.
We’ll welcome you to the family and to show our commitment to you, you’ll start as a full-time Beazley employee from day 1. This entitles to you all our renowned benefits, from free lunch and reimbursed office travel to flexible religious holidays and private medical cover.
Our non-hierarchical structure and friendly culture make Beazley a fantastic launchpad for your career – we can't wait to welcome you!
Job summary
You’ve heard us talking about being Lloyd’s largest syndicate, the market leader on certain product lines, and having a fantastic culture, way of working, and range of benefits. Behind all of that is the Culture and People (HR) function.
We enable the business to perform as well as it does, through finding and hiring the top talent, upskilling and training on the right skills, rewarding and treating people in the best way possible, and allowing all of our employees to thrive. We are an organisation with ambitious plans, and the Culture & People function is at the heart of making those plans happen. Our mission statement focuses on “Attracting, engaging and developing a diverse, high performing workforce to enable Beazley to reach it’s strategic objectives”
On our Culture & People L3 HR Apprenticeship you will begin your 18-month programme in the operations team to give you the full breath and foundational understanding of C&P at Beazley, and will then have 2 more roles in other HR teams such as Learning & Development, Reward & Benefits, Talent Recruitment etc. These 2 roles will be customised to your individual skillset and business needs. By the end of the 18 months, you will have a rounded breadth of experience in 3 different areas of HR and be ready to move off programme into a full-time role in the Culture & People team, you may also decide to progress onto the Level 5 HR programme and enhance your CIPD qualification.
Professional Development Information
Alongside the Beazley UK Early Careers Academy Development offering, you will also work on development and progression pathways specific to your chosen programme.
Culture and People (HR) Apprentices will complete the Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship with Beazley supporting you to achieve the CIPD Foundation Certificate.
Entry criteria
- 3 A Levels A-C (or equivalent) +
- 5x GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English
Don’t meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the JD, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.
