Why work with us?
We’re a thriving, fast-paced business with an agile mindset and a desire to grow. Sound like an
environment where you would excel?
Learning Culture
We place a strong emphasis on motivating everyone to reach their full potential by creating opportunities to develop across our businesses.
- Training with us: We work closely with team managers to identify individual development needs and offer a varied approach to learning and growth to meet those needs.
- Become Qualified with us: If you’re committed, and see a future with us, we will offer you time and financial support to advance through courses and qualifications.
- Excel with us: Our Leadership Development Programme allows our existing managers the opportunity to develop and enhance their skills. Through our Future Leaders programme, we equip future leaders with the tools and skills they need to succeed in a leadership role.
Awards & Recognition
Over the years Somerset Bridge Group have been proud recipients of numerous industry awards, including – Shortlisted in the British Insurance Awards for the Personal Lines Broker of the Year.
Awarded a Silver from Investors in People, and most recently Best Broker in the UK General Insurance Sector by Insurance DataLab.
Our Company Benefits
Please be aware that these are our Group-wide benefits and some additional benefits may apply locally.
Our Benefits
Travel
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- First Bus Commuter Travel Club (Bristol)
- Metro Saver Scheme (Newcastle)
- Electric Vehicle – Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Healthcare
- Eye Care Reimbursement
- Flu Vouchers
- Healthcare Cash Plan – claim cashback on a variety of everyday healthcare costs
- Free Fruit & Refreshments
- Professional Health & Fitness App
- Enhanced Parental Leave – including time off for IVF appointments
Flexible Working
- Hybrid Working – 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days over 2 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service. Plus bank holidays!
- Religious bank holidays – if you don’t celebrate Christmas and Easter, you can use these annual leave days on other occasions throughout the year.
- Flexi-time
- Flexible working – we will always consider applications for those who require less than the advertised hours
Financial
- Discretionary Annual Bonus
- 25% Car Insurance Discount
- 20% Travel Insurance Discount
- Pension Scheme – 5% employee, 6% employer
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
- 100’s of SBG Retailer Discounts
- Life Assurance – 4 times your salary
- Employee Referral Scheme
Your Wellbeing
Professional Wellbeing App – Wrkit
Employee Assistance Programme
Speak Up
Chat with Friends@SBG
Community Support Day
Social Events
Staff Events
- Christmas Party
- Summer Party
- Awards Ceremony
- Staff Appreciation Events
Committees
- Group Social Events
- Culture Committee
- Communal Games Area (Bristol)
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Somerset Bridge Group is a great place to grow your career. In my five years here, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to develop in my role and within my team. The culture is fun, innovative and the people are what make it truly special. Everyone’s supportive, and it’s a great team to be part of. I’d recommend SBG to anyone looking for a friendly and rewarding place to work.
Georgia Longley | Senior UX/UI Designer -
Working at Somerset Bridge Group has been incredibly rewarding. From day one, I have felt well supported by my team and continuously empowered to grow both professionally and personally. I’m proud to be part of an organisation that not only prioritises excellence but also genuinely cares about its people.
Emma Beechey | Graphic Designer -
This company suits anyone who is driven and a self-starter – if you are, you’ll succeed and there are no ceilings. I have been here 7 years and started as a QA Handler progressing to Head of First Line Compliance & Risk. If you’re ambitious, then you go places here.
Christian Burgess | Operations Compliance & Quality Manager -
I have worked for Somerset Bridge for the last 11 years after starting my career on the graduate programme. This means I have worked in lots of different teams during my time and gained lots of valuable experience. Funding and supporting me through CII qualifications is a major bonus.
Hayley Pollard | Claims Handler
Current Vacancies
Senior Pricing Analyst
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £75,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Senior Pricing Analyst to join our Trading team. The Trading team’s main focus is on ensuring the profitability of our insurance products by maintaining the loss ratio via pricing overlays based on emerging trends, we are also responsible for making sure sales volume and average premium targets are being met by responding to changes in the market.
The successful candidate will have expert knowledge of the market and previous experience in developing and deploying pricing changes. Data science skills such as statistical machine learning applied using open source programming such as Python or R are a benefit but not a necessity. You must be an excellent communicator and have a desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
Machine Learning Operations Lead
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Competitive Package
The Machine Learning Operations Lead will be responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of the ML Ops platform for Project Pegasus. This role involves leading a cross-functional team to ensure the successful implementation and integration of ML models into the live pricing environment. The ML Ops Lead will work closely with data scientists, data engineers, and external consultants to deliver a robust and scalable ML platform.
Machine Learning Operations Engineer
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Competitive Package
The Machine Learning Operations Engineer will support the development and maintenance of the ML Ops platform for Project Pegasus. This role involves building and maintaining the data infrastructure required for the platform, developing API services, and ensuring the integration of ML models into the live environment.
Data Governance Manager
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation £64,000 – £75,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Data Governance Manager to establish and enforce robust data governance practices across the Somerset Bridge Group, ensuring data assets are accurate, secure, and used ethically and efficiently. This role plays a critical part in shaping the organisation’s data culture by embedding policies, standards, and controls that align with regulatory requirements (e.g. FCA, PRA, Data Protection Act 2018) and support the group’s strategic objectives.
The successful candidate will lead the development of a formal data governance framework, including data ownership models, stewardship engagement, and quality management processes. They will work closely with data architects, engineers, analysts, compliance, and business functions to ensure data is governed, understood, and fit for purpose across its lifecycle.
Additionally, the role supports compliance and audit readiness by maintaining clear metadata, lineage, and retention policies using tools such as Azure Purview and Unity Catalog. This position is vital to enabling trusted analytics, AI development, and operational efficiency.
The successful candidate will lead the development of a formal data governance framework, including data ownership models, stewardship engagement, and quality management processes. They will work closely with data architects, engineers, analysts, compliance, and business functions to ensure data is governed, understood, and fit for purpose across its lifecycle.
Additionally, the role supports compliance and audit readiness by maintaining clear metadata, lineage, and retention policies using tools such as Azure Purview and Unity Catalog. This position is vital to enabling trusted analytics, AI development, and operational efficiency.
Senior Pricing Analyst
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £75,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Senior Pricing Analyst to join the Risk Pricing team within our Underwriting department. The purpose of the Senior Pricing Analyst is to lead the development and implementation of sophisticated pricing models and risk assessments for motor insurance products. This role is critical in ensuring that pricing strategies are data-driven, competitive, and aligned with the company’s financial objectives.
The Senior Pricing Analyst provides expertise in actuarial analysis, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and supports decision-making processes to enhance the company’s profitability and market position.
Telematics Pricing Analyst
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation £40,000 – £50,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Pricing Analyst to play a critical role in shaping pricing strategies within the telematics insurance sector. Using advanced statistical techniques, data analytics and actuarial methods, the Pricing Analyst will ensure competitive, fair and profitable pricing structures.
The role focuses on customer engagement with telematics App and managing drivers’ telematics data to drive improvements in risk pricing while adhering to regulatory and market requirements.
The role focuses on customer engagement with telematics App and managing drivers’ telematics data to drive improvements in risk pricing while adhering to regulatory and market requirements.
Telematics Manager
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £95,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Telematics Pricing Manager to own our telematics proposition, generating insight from telematics data and driving actionable insights that will improve accuracy of our risk pricing models. The role will be responsible for setting and achieving trading KPIs in line with business strategy whilst ensuring regulatory compliance. This is a pivotal role in the SBG growth strategy and product offering. You will take ownership of the product and ensure a customer centric approach to servicing our policies.
Fleet Claims Handler
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £25,750 – £32,960 / year
Somerset Bridge Limited provide claims handling services to our insurer partners. Our supportive and efficient claims teams handle almost 50,000 claims a year. We pride ourselves on people development, offering market leading training and fast career progression through the claims team. We truly believe Somerset Bridge Limited is a great place to work and we want to hear from you! What you’ll be doingOur customer will have a fleet policy which is a type of insurance designed to cover commercial vehicles such as HGV’s delivery vehicles, taxis or companies with multiple commercial vehicles. You’ll have your own portfolio of claims to handle through to settlement. These claims will involve situations where our customer is claiming for the damage caused to their vehicle, damage to another driver’s property and/or someone has been injured. If our customer is claiming for the damage caused to their vehicle then you’ll be arranging for it to be repaired or a settlement if its beyond economical repair. You’ll be investigating and deciding who was responsible for the incident and if applicable liaising with the other driver’s representative to settle their claim. Training Excellent training is provided. Your corporate induction will be completed in the first 8 days followed by a 10-week training programme which is all completed onsite. This will help you understand the role, give you the best start and tools in your career. You’ll have the opportunity to move to hybrid working once competent in the role.
Senior Compliance Business Partner
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Competitive Package
The Senior Compliance Business Partner role at Somerset Bridge Group (SBG) is based on a Business Partnering role to independently perform regulatory compliance advisory activities, but also provides additional direct support to the Head of Compliance Business Partners providing the opportunity for individuals to build their skillset and experience and support progression towards more senior roles.
The role of Business Partnering enables assurance, advice and guidance around regulatory matters to be given to Senior Management and the Governing Body of SBG, with Senior Business Partners undertaking a more visible role in oversighting and delivering this expertise. The role supports the group’s ambition to deliver exceptional customer experiences every day by providing strategic support and advice to the business area, helping it grow while upholding the standards and requirements of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other relevant regulators.
You will be a visible and accessible compliance presence for the business and key stakeholders; the go-to person for the business on compliance and integrity matters utilising your communication and influencing skills. Whilst working closely with the Assurance and Risk teams and other business departments to support compliance with SBG policies, procedures and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. As a Senior Business Partner you will also deputise for the HoCBP whilst taking an active role in supporting and developing the other Business Partners as well as the broader Risk and Compliance function.
The role of Business Partnering enables assurance, advice and guidance around regulatory matters to be given to Senior Management and the Governing Body of SBG, with Senior Business Partners undertaking a more visible role in oversighting and delivering this expertise. The role supports the group’s ambition to deliver exceptional customer experiences every day by providing strategic support and advice to the business area, helping it grow while upholding the standards and requirements of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other relevant regulators.
You will be a visible and accessible compliance presence for the business and key stakeholders; the go-to person for the business on compliance and integrity matters utilising your communication and influencing skills. Whilst working closely with the Assurance and Risk teams and other business departments to support compliance with SBG policies, procedures and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. As a Senior Business Partner you will also deputise for the HoCBP whilst taking an active role in supporting and developing the other Business Partners as well as the broader Risk and Compliance function.
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