Senior Enterprise Risk Manager

Senior Enterprise Risk Manager

• Translate the Enterprise Risk Management Framework into practical, business insight


• Influence senior decisions through clear, insight-led risk analysis


• Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from Stratford-Upon-Avon

About the role

As a Senior Enterprise Risk Manager, you’ll sit at the heart of the Risk Division, translating the Risk Management Framework into practical, business-relevant insight and ensuring it is effectively embedded, applied and continuously evolving across the organisation.

You’ll play a key role in bridging strategy and delivery, enabling the business to make informed, risk-based decisions while maintaining strong oversight and constructive challenge. You’ll deliver clear, decision-focused risk insight for senior stakeholders and governance forums, using analysis of risk, control and event data to identify trends and emerging risks.

You’ll support the consistent and effective application of the Risk Management Framework, while strengthening risk governance and committee effectiveness to ensure robust oversight and assurance. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you’ll influence and challenge decision-making, ensuring risks are clearly understood, owned and managed.

You’ll drive continuous improvement across risk processes, controls and the use of risk tools, building strong relationships and promoting a positive and proactive risk culture across the organisation.

This role plays a key part in supporting business performance and strategic change, providing risk input into transformation initiatives, business decisions and long-term planning.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

About you

You’re an experienced Enterprise Risk professional with a strong track record of developing, embedding and improving enterprise and operational risk management frameworks within insurance, financial services or banking environments.

You bring deep knowledge of enterprise risk, including risk governance, regulatory requirements and frameworks, and understand how these translate into practical application across a business.

You build credible, trusted relationships and demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and constructively challenging decisions at senior levels. You communicate complex risk information clearly, using data and insight to support effective decision-making.

You’re a proactive, results-driven individual who takes ownership, delivers outcomes and drives continuous improvement across risk processes, frameworks and reporting. You demonstrate sound judgement, resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

You also bring:

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise risk frameworks


• Strong regulatory awareness and understanding of the wider risk environment


• Experience producing high-quality, insight-led reporting for senior stakeholders


• The ability to analyse complex data and translate it into clear, actionable insight

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary £75,000 to £85,000 depending on experience


• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Private medical insurance + options to add family members


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.


• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.