Location: Hybrid 50% home/office based – St Stephens Green

Closing Date: 28/05/2026

About Royal London Ireland

Royal London Insurance DAC (trading as Royal London Ireland) is part of the Royal London Group, the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. Based in Dublin, we provide protection and pensions solutions designed to help customers achieve financial security, working in partnership with financial brokers across Ireland. As a regulated insurer, we are committed to acting in customers’ best interests, delivering good customer outcomes, and maintaining strong standards of governance, risk management and compliance.

Role Overview

The Senior Protection Proposition Executive plays a key role in the development, governance, and ongoing optimisation of Royal London Ireland’s Protection Propositions. This role requires strong technical expertise, and independent judgement to ensure propositions deliver good customer outcomes.

A key part of the role is to ensure proposition activity is managed within agreed risk appetite, with clear oversight of conduct and operational risks, and robust controls embedded across the product lifecycle.

Role Purpose

To support the end‑to‑end management of Royal London Ireland’s Protection propositions, ensuring products remain compliant, competitive, clearly communicated and aligned to regulatory and customer outcome expectations.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development, enhancement and periodic review of Protection propositions.
• Own and maintain customer and broker facing proposition literature.
• Support new product initiatives, material changes and proposition enhancements through governance and approval processes.
• Ensure propositions meet Irish regulatory requirements, including CPC expectations and customer disclosure standards.
• Work closely with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Actuarial, Marketing, Operations and Distribution teams.
• Deliver broker training and proposition promotion sessions.
• Provide expert technical product support to brokers and internal stakeholders.

Key Relationships

• Protection Proposition Lead and wider Product/Proposition team.
• Distribution, Sales and Broker Relationship Management teams; and external financial brokers/intermediaries.
• Underwriting and Claims teams (including technical and quality functions).
• Actuarial and Finance (pricing, experience analysis, reserving and profitability).
• Risk, Compliance, Legal and Company Secretariat (governance, regulatory engagement and approvals).
• Operations and Customer Service teams (process, service, complaints and customer outcomes).
• Marketing (proposition messaging, communications and training materials).

Governance and Regulatory Responsibilities

• Maintain effective risk and control ownership for proposition processes, ensuring controls are designed, documented and operated in line with the Risk Management Framework.
• Complete risk assessments for product changes, communications and distribution activity, escalating material issues and supporting approval papers with clear risk commentary.
• Contribute to risk reviews (including thematic reviews) and provide input to Risk and Compliance on proposition performance, control effectiveness and key decisions.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Qualified Financial Adviser (QFA) – completed and in good standing.
• Experience in proposition, product or technical roles.
• Strong understanding of Irish protection products and broker‑led distribution.
• Experience operating within formal governance and approval frameworks.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills with high attention to detail.

Personal Capabilities

• Strong customer‑outcome focus.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Organised, resilient and able to manage competing priorities.
• Proactive, collaborative and solutions‑focused approach.

Based in St Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Royal London Ireland is a fully owned subsidiary of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, the largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company in the UK. We are authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and provide individual protection and pension products through Financial Brokers across Ireland. Our excellent customer service and mutual mindset means we take a longer-term view and focus on providing best customer outcomes.

Our culture is welcoming and friendly; we aim to make you always feel included. We encourage applications from those who may be on extended career break or from different work sectors and seeking to move into financial services. We are open to discussing flexible work arrangements.

What We Offer

• We provide competitive employee benefits such as market leading Pension scheme (including Life Insurance); performance related bonus; health insurance allowance and access to Wellbeing resources as well as employee discount and recognition schemes.
• Our culture comes from within, it comes from our people; our People Promise is our commitment to provide the best experience for our people. It reflects our brand, our strengths and how we work together to create a positive culture.
• On Glassdoor, Royal London Group is consistently ranked as among the best places to work.
• The role holder will be based in our St Stephen’s Green office (Dublin 2) and will benefit from our hybrid work arrangements with a mix of office and home working.    

Controlled Functions - some of our roles are ‘controlled functions’ as defined by the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 Central Bank Reform Act 2010 (Sections 20 and 22) Regulations and 2011 (S.I. No. 437 of 2011), as amended. If a vacancy is for a Controlled Function (CF), it will state this in the job title above. For CF roles, appointment will be conditional on Royal London Ireland being fully satisfied that the appointee meets the requirements as set out in the Fitness and Probity standards issued by the Central Bank of Ireland; as well the Minimum Competency Code Requirements, as applicable for the role