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
Claims Handler – Fraud
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation From £29,000 / 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 doing
You’ll have your own portfolio of claims to handle through to repudiation or settlement on best terms. These claims will involve situations where our customer has damaged another driver’s property and someone has been injured and/or have been provided with a replacement vehicle on a credit basis. You’ll be investigating these claims for potential fraud. You’ll be gathering information, identifying irregularities and recommending appropriate actions. You’ll also be investigating and deciding who was responsible for the incident and if applicable liaising with the other driver’s representative to settle or repudiate 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.
First Line Compliance and Risk
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £35,000 – £41,000 / year
We are recruiting for a First Line Compliance & Risk Associate to assist in the management of First Line governance, and to help manage a framework that promotes the embedding of structures and processes that improve the provision of Governance, Risk and Compliance services across different business areas.
The ideal candidate will have previously worked within the Insurance sector with Compliance and / or risk experience.
Data Engineer
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £55,000 – £68,500 / year
We’re building something special — and we need a talented Data Engineer to help bring our Azure data platform to life.
This is your chance to work on a greenfield Enterprise Data Warehouse programme in the insurance sector, shaping data pipelines and platforms that power smarter decisions, better pricing, and sharper customer insights.
The Data Engineer will design, build, and optimise scalable data pipelines within Azure Databricks, ensuring high-quality, reliable data is available to support pricing, underwriting, claims, and operational decision-making. This role is critical in modernising SBG’s cloud-based data infrastructure, ensuring compliance with FCA/PRA regulations, and enabling AI-driven analytics and automation.
By leveraging Azure-native services, such as Azure Data Factory (ADF) for orchestration, Delta Lake for ACID-compliant data storage, and Databricks Structured Streaming for real-time data processing, the Data Engineer will help unlock insights, enhance pricing accuracy, and drive innovation. The role also includes optimising Databricks query performance, implementing robust security controls (RBAC, Unity Catalog), and ensuring enterprise-wide data reliability.
Working closely with Data Architects, Pricing Teams, Data Analysts, and IT, this role will ensure our Azure Databricks data ecosystem is scalable, efficient, and aligned with business objectives. Additionally, the Data Engineer will contribute to cost optimisation, governance, and automation within Azure’s modern data platform.
We’re building something special — and we need a talented Data Engineer to help bring our Azure data platform to life.
Data Architect
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation £82,500 – £98,000 / year
Are you ready to shape the data backbone of an ambitious insurance business?
We’re on the lookout for a Data Architect to help us build a modern, scalable, and secure data estate that unlocks value across pricing, customer experience, operations, and regulatory reporting.
This role is central to our mission to become a truly data-driven organisation. You’ll play a key part in designing our future state architecture, guiding our move to an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and enabling advanced analytics, governance, and data protection by design.
The role will focus on ensuring data integrity, scalability, security, and performance within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, leveraging Databricks as the core platform for advanced analytics, data engineering, and machine learning.
The Data Architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business and in particular with data engineering, data science, and pricing teams to optimise data solutions that drive business intelligence, predictive modelling, and real-time decision-making. The role also involves leading innovation by adopting best practices in cloud-based data architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Additionally, the Data Architect will play a key role in modernising and optimising data pipelines, enabling high-performance, cost-efficient, and scalable solutions that support AI-driven insights and pricing optimisation.
We’re on the lookout for a Data Architect to help us build a modern, scalable, and secure data estate that unlocks value across pricing, customer experience, operations, and regulatory reporting.
This role is central to our mission to become a truly data-driven organisation. You’ll play a key part in designing our future state architecture, guiding our move to an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and enabling advanced analytics, governance, and data protection by design.
The role will focus on ensuring data integrity, scalability, security, and performance within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, leveraging Databricks as the core platform for advanced analytics, data engineering, and machine learning.
The Data Architect will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business and in particular with data engineering, data science, and pricing teams to optimise data solutions that drive business intelligence, predictive modelling, and real-time decision-making. The role also involves leading innovation by adopting best practices in cloud-based data architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Additionally, the Data Architect will play a key role in modernising and optimising data pipelines, enabling high-performance, cost-efficient, and scalable solutions that support AI-driven insights and pricing optimisation.
Data Protection Executive
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £38,000 / year
We are hiring for a Data Protection Executive to take a crucial role within our Data Protection team, ensuring that SBG’s data protection framework is robust, compliant, and effectively implemented. This role is pivotal in safeguarding the organisation’s data assets and maintaining the trust of our customers and stakeholders. By supporting the development and compliance of data protection standards and processes, the Data Protection Executive will contribute to the overall security and reputation of the company.
Product Administrator
Fixed Term – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation £27,000 – £30,000 / year
We are recruiting for a Product Administrator to join us on a 9-month fixed term contract, with the possibility of being made permanent.
As a Product Administrator, your main responsibility is to support the Product Management team by handling everyday tasks that keep things running smoothly and meet the required quality standards and timescales. This includes running processes to monitor live insurance products, ensuring they work correctly and validating any changes to prices, documents or EDI messages before they go live.
Large Loss and Complex Claims Handler
Permanent – Full Time
|Newcastle
Compensation Competitive package
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a catastrophic Injury claims handler with experience of independently handling motor claims in excess of £250,000 to join our team here at Somerset Bridge. We are a highly experienced and well-respected large loss team with a strong focus on developing our staff.
Insurance Financial Controller
Fixed Term – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation £70,000 – £78,000 / year
We are recruiting for an Insurance Financial Controller to join us on a 9-month fixed term contract, with the possibility of becoming permanent.
The Insurance Financial Controller will provide overall leadership and oversight of the finance function across all Group companies. This role is pivotal in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements, and the continuous improvement of financial controls and management information.
The Insurance Financial Controller will provide overall leadership and oversight of the finance function across all Group companies. This role is pivotal in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements, and the continuous improvement of financial controls and management information.
Senior Analyst
Permanent – Full Time
|Bristol
Compensation Up to £60,000 / year
We are hiring for a commercially astute analyst to support the delivery of our car insurance strategy. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering actionable insights, supporting governance and trading decisions, and ensuring effective execution of our underwriting plans. This role will also contribute to the operation and documentation of key governance forums, helping ensure our portfolio remains compliant, well-managed, and aligned to business objectives. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical skills, and eye for detail, and a passion for commercial performance.
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