Your development

Talented people give us our competitive edge. That’s why we like to take a rigorous approach to identifying, nurturing and retaining talent.

We want everyone, at every level, to realise their potential. But we also know that people have different aspirations. That’s something we’re fully able to support through the wide range of training and development programs on offer.

If you want to develop your claims, underwriting and actuarial technical mastery, we provide support for certain professional qualifications. Our Technical Academy provides networks to share best practice. Clearly defined, technical career paths and industry-leading training programmes are provided. Options include:

• Commercial Underwriting Apprenticeship Programme - providing A Level school-leavers with an alternative to continuing their education.
• Global Pricing Academy - as being excellent at pricing can give us a real competitive advantage
• Advanced Development Programme (ADP) – an 18 month programme to develop lead underwriters and portfolio managers.

These all contribute to our reputation for industry leading technical mastery.

If you want to develop in a non-insurance profession – We have development programmes for Profit and Loss (P&L) leaders, a programme to develop our up and coming HR talent and a Marketing Academy to help us in achieving our ambition of becoming a best-in-class marketing function, to name just a few. Whatever your expertise, we’ll endeavour to support your continuing development.

If you want to become a leader – We run many development programmes for graduates through to senior executive level, to find and develop our leaders of tomorrow. For example, we have an award-winning, seven-month development programme that targets those with the potential to move into senior leadership within two to five years. This includes the opportunity to work on a real-life business challenge that is pitched to country executives.

We also offer on-the-job support for the fundamental skills you might need in your role – such as presentation skills and certain software packages. When you start, not only will you go through our comprehensive on-boarding process, you will be assigned a ‘buddy’ to help you settle in during your first few weeks.

Taking ownership of your development

Wherever you are in your career, our Global Capability Framework and online Learning Zone can help you take real ownership of your ongoing development.  The Capability Framework provides you with clear role profiles and will help you to better understand your strengths as well as your development areas for future roles.

And our online Learning Zone contains a mixture of high quality learning solutions and exercises that can be tailored to your specific development areas. From industry reports to e-learning modules, the Learning Zone is your one stop shop to thousands of useful resources to help take your career at RSA to the next level.