From day one, our mission has been to create an independent business with a unique culture – one that is controlled by the people who work for it. Finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people has always been key to our success.

People come to Howden Group Holdings for lots of different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. That’s what sets us apart, and why we nurture and retain the best talent in the market. Whatever your priorities – work/life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering - you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden Group.

About Howden Group and Rethink:

Howden Group is the world’s largest majority employee-owned insurance group. Rethink is Howden Group’s new digital platform for matching insurance risk to capacity providers. Covid-19 has accelerated an existing trend towards electronic placement of part or all of corporate risks, and brokers and carriers that have timely, accurate and automated placement and underwriting processes will be in the strongest position to maintain margins and grow revenues.

Rethink’s technology roadmap has the following objectives:

● more successfully automate the quoting and placing processes and build out its technology stack, including Rethink’s Underwriting Algorithm and rules engine

● deploy a new underwriting platform to allow for more complex acceptance criteria and data augmentation

Rethink is a dynamic and fast-paced place to work, with the culture of a results-oriented small business. We pride ourselves on our ambition and ability to engineer quality solutions and exceed clients’ expectations.

About the role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Individual who wants to enter a career path in Data to help drive forward our ambitions and growth.

You will be joining the Rethink Data Team and will be initially working on populating, maintaining, and improving our crucial reference data management capability. The role is expected to grow with experience to become industry-focused expert in Data.

What you’ll bring:

• Ability to work as a part of the team
• Enthusiasm and willingness to learn new skills and subjects
• Resourcefulness
• Good communication skills
• Good organisation of your own tasks and delivery
• Attention to detail
• Ability to spot areas for improvement and articulate those into actual proposals of work

What will be your initial responsibilities:

• Gather lists of reference data required
• Engage with Ref Data consumers to ensure correct data is captured and stores
• Research original sources of reference data
• Review and ensure quality of reference data values (codes, descriptions, relations to other values)
• Introduce reference data lists to a structure of Reference Data store
• Ensure referential integrity of reference data lists
• Design interfaces (no-code Airtable environment) to improve the process of ref data values entry
• Propose improvements to the processes of managing and publishing reference data
• Manage reference data lists on an ongoing basis
• Maintain reference data lists catalogue (including staging area for proposed lists)
• Providing support to Project and Operations teams

Desirable extra skills and experience:

• Basic computer knowledge (some knowledge of databases or integration interfaces like API - would be a big advantage)
• Managing tables and data in Excel or any other tool with structured data – would be beneficial

What we offer:

• Competitive salary/day rate
• Great working environment
• Path to grow in your professional development

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define.

Yes, we offer all the usual rewards and benefits - including great healthcare provision, a wide variety of wellbeing offers, competitive salary, generous pensions and more - but we know you expect all that.

What you might not expect is a job where everyone has a voice, where volunteering in the community is part of the day job, and where everyone is encouraged to play a part towards our sustainability goals. We want people who want to make a difference - not just in the workplace, but in the industry and in the wider community.

Our Culture: People First

We are proud to be at the global table, but we are most proud of our culture. It has been built on a single and constant set of principles over more than 25 years, and it has helped us become:

• An international group with independence and people at its heart

• A home for talent with a unique culture: the biggest small company in the world

The focus on being a People First business has always been at the very heart of the Group. David’s vision was to create an independent business with a unique culture; one that would survive and thrive as a business controlled by the people working for it. Finding the most talented and entrepreneurial people to join the Group has been and will continue to be key.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Howden Group Holdings we consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness and respect, regardless of their age, disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or family circumstances.

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