Join Sweco as Group Legal Insurance and Risk Counsel

Everything begins with you. Your ideas and your passion for making a difference.
But it’s also about us as a team, and how we work together to build a better future. We are united by a common purpose:Transforming Society Together. This is our promise – to design and build with intention, ensuring that what we create makes life better for generations to come. It relies on the collective expertise of architects, engineers and specialists, working with each other and with our clients on projects worldwide. It’s all about you and us – together.

Sweco plans and designs for future sustainable societies and cities. It is the leading consultancy firm in technology and architecture in Europe, with annual turnover approximately SEK 31 billion. The company is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced legal and insurance professional to join Sweco Group and play a key role in developing and managing our global insurance programmes and risk management processes.

This is an opportunity to take on a central role in shaping insurance and risk management across one of Europe’s leading consulting companies. The position also includes supporting the continued development of Sweco’s captive and reinsurance operations.

Your main responsibility will be to support the management and development of insurance programmes across Sweco Group, including the annual procurement and renewal processes. As an internal subject matter expert on insurance coverage, primarily in relation to professional indemnity and general liability insurance, you will negotiate Sweco Group’s insurance policies, reinsurance programmes, insurance broker agreements, other insurance-related service agreements and selected ICT-related service agreements.

You will coordinate Sweco’s insurance programmes together with appointed brokers and insurers. During the renewal process, you will be responsible for ensuring that the Group obtains appropriate insurance coverage at a competitive cost. A key part of the role is to monitor developments in the insurance market and continuously assess whether the Group’s insurance programmes remain sufficient as the business evolves.

You will also be responsible for the day-to-day management of insurance matters, working closely with internal stakeholders, insurers, brokers and other service providers. In addition, you will manage, maintain and develop insurance-related risk management processes, including frameworks for access to master and excess-layer insurance programmes for Professional Indemnity, PI, and General Liability, GL, coverage, premium allocation and related matters.

You will support the business in large and complex claims, helping to make the claims process and interaction with insurers as efficient as possible. The role also includes ensuring the quality of procedures relating to premium distribution, claims reporting and insurance documentation. In addition, you will contribute to the Group’s broader risk management processes and matters relating to legal compliance.

You will be part of the team responsible for Sweco’s newly established internal captive and reinsurance operations and will help develop reinsurance procedures involving the captive.

About you 

You have an academic degree in Law/ Engineering/Risk Management or similar. You have at least five years of experience working with insurance and risk management from a legal perspective. Experience working with insurance programmes and captive arrangements is considered an advantage. Communicative skills are important as you will work closely with stakeholders throughout the organisation. You are business-minded with strong interpersonal and analytical skills needed to ensure the best solutions for the Group. You are comfortable working in a changing environment and have experience using digital tools and software solutions to improve efficiency. 

Fluency in both Swedish and English, written and spoken, is required.

The position is within Group Legal, a function at the Sweco Group Headquarters, located in Stockholm. The position will report to the General Counsel.

What Sweco offers

At Sweco Group, we are approximately 60 employees who support our Sweco business areas across Europe in creating more sustainable future societies. Sweco Group is led by Sweco’s CEO and consists of the following teams: Group Finance, Group Strategy, Group Legal, Group Communications and Group HR.

This is a permanent, full-time position based at our head office in Stockholm (Kungsholmen), located in modern premises. 

At Sweco, we have collectively agreed benefits, including insurance and occupational pension, as well as additional benefits such as wellness initiatives, salary exchange, counselling support and access to holiday cottages, to name a few.

How to apply

For this recruitment, we are collaborating with von Feilitzen & Partners.
Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted on a rolling basis. We therefore encourage interested candidates to submit their application as soon as possible. We kindly request that applications be submitted exclusively via www.vonfeilitzen.se. Applications sent by email will not be considered.

For more information about the role, please contact Rosita von Feilitzen on +46 73 540 57 07.

Sweco will conduct a personality assessment for final candidates, and a background check will be carried out by 2Secure.