Team Secretary

Team Secretary (London Market)

Support the Underwriting teams across Markel and help ensure smooth day-to-day operations for the London Market division.

The London Market PA and Secretarial team provides support to the London Market division within Markel International. You will play a key role in supporting the Speciality division by providing comprehensive administrative assistance, ensuring smooth operations, and offering direct support to the Personal Assistant and wider team as needed.

What you’ll be doing

• Arranging travel, including flights, accommodation, transfers, and visas
• Processing expenses and invoices
• Arranging team events, including sending invitations, monitoring RSVPs, and booking venues
• Arranging Outlook meetings, booking meeting rooms, and requesting catering when required
• Arranging team training and maintaining an up-to-date training record
• Circulating monthly and quarterly regulatory emails and monitoring responses
• Collating and PDF-ing report papers following monthly team meetings
• Purchasing merchandise and gifts, and organising baby/leaving cards
• Keeping records up to date, such as staff lists, organisational charts, and travel spreadsheets
• Providing general day-to-day administrative duties and other ad hoc tasks
• Supporting the DSBD team with remuneration invoices and providing additional ad hoc administrative support as required

Our must-haves

• Experience in a similar administration or secretarial role, ideally within insurance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple simultaneous activities and with a wide range of stakeholders
• IT skills including MS Office, and the ability to develop a full understanding of in-house systems
• Proactive approach

What’s in it for you?

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus and a strong benefits package
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan, and other benefits
• Opportunities to learn new skills and develop your career, with the support needed to do so

About Markel

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) is a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries. It is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

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