At Pen, we don’t just underwrite risk, we unlock possibility. We’re a dynamic underwriting and distribution business backed by the strength of Gallagher and powered by a belief that every challenge has a solution. With entrepreneurial energy, niche expertise, and a bold growth mindset, we’re transforming what it means to be an MGA in today’s insurance landscape. Whether you’re shaping new products, solving complex problems, or collaborating across teams, your ideas and initiative will help deliver smarter solutions for our clients—and move the industry forward. Here, agility meets stability. Creativity meets execution. And your career meets real opportunity. At Pen, we champion innovation, value accountability, and thrive on building something better together. If you’re looking to join a team that’s rewriting the future of underwriting, we’d love to hear from you.
Overview
We are seeking a Compliance Business Partner to join our ambitious team at Pen Underwriting. This outstanding opportunity allows you to act as a trusted advisor, balancing business opportunities with compliance risks to improve corporate performance and minimise loss. You will play a crucial role in ensuring our business meets its regulatory objectives through delivering policy and advisory support, leading compliance projects, and embedding professional standards.
How you'll make an impact
- Act as a Business Partner to support professional, strategic, and operational compliance risk management.
- Provide compliance oversight and reporting to senior management, including the Compliance Director and senior risk team.
- Deliver focused specialist compliance advice, particularly concerning the FCA’s Product Governance and Consumer Duty rules and guidance.
- Assist with the management and delivery of compliance work, including strategic projects and M&A integration projects.
- Improve the Gallagher control framework with risk-based policies and procedures to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Develop and implement appropriate professional standards in response to new rules and regulatory standards.
- Offer compliance work stream support on business-led projects.
- Conduct research and provide expert policy advice on regulatory issues.
- Maintain a highly visible role as a strong influencer to help collaborators understand and implement regulatory changes.
- Review and analyse key external trends to support the development of compliance strategies.
About You
- Compliance qualifications are desirable.
- Proven understanding of risk and compliance practices and governing regulations, especially related to conduct risk.
- Strong knowledge of FCA Product Governance and Consumer Duty rules and guidance.
- Ability to evaluate the adequacy and efficiency of controls in financial, operational, regulatory, and technology contexts.
- Experience reporting to committees, including those with non-executive directors, is desirable.
- Exposure to compliance within the insurance broking/underwriting environment is highly desirable.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including effective communication with all levels of the company.
- Strong presentation skills with experience interacting with senior management.
- Hands-on practical problem-solving approach to achieving business outcomes.
- Ability to manage people and build teams effectively.
- High degree of ethics and integrity in client focus.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Eligibility to work in the UK.
At Pen Underwriting, we believe in encouraging an inclusive and collaborative environment. You will have the opportunity to work with a team of dedicated professionals and contribute to our mission of delivering outstanding service and results. Join us and be part of a company that values integrity, innovation, and excellence!
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more…
We value inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.