Company details

London, UK

HEADCOUNT

1000-2999

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.beazley.com

About the company

Beazley is a specialty insurer that underwrites complex risks such as cyber, management liability, professional liability, property, and specialty lines. Beazley operates through Lloyd’s and through local platforms, serving brokers and clients globally. Beazley also runs risk management services alongside insurance products in some areas, especially cyber. Beazley is listed in London and is known for writing specialist business across multiple geographies.

Locations and presence

Beazley’s main hub is London (22 Bishopsgate), with a second UK hub in Birmingham and a European platform based in Dublin with offices across cities including Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Barcelona and Zurich. The company describes “smart working” as hybrid by default, with an expectation of at least two days per week in the office depending on team and role.

Palpable Score

77.3

/ 100

Beazley offers solid early-career access through a named Early Careers Academy, UK graduate programmes with defined structures, and school-leaver apprenticeships with clear pay information. The biggest gap is consistency and transparency in the hiring journey, because most stage detail is learned from candidate reports rather than a single official process guide per programme. Learning support and rewards are unusually well spelled out for early-career hires, while public outcome metrics like conversion rates and time-to-promotion remain limited.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.5

/ 20

The company runs an Early Careers Academy across the UK and the US, covering both university graduates and UK school leavers.

Beazley advertises structured UK graduate routes, including an Underwriting Graduate Programme described as a 24-month programme and specialist tracks such as Claims Business Management with four rotations.

The company also runs UK apprenticeship programmes positioned as an alternative to university, alongside annual internship and graduate underwriting intakes advertised for specific hiring years.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.0

/ 20

The company’s graduate-stage candidate reports repeatedly describe a predictable sequence of online assessments, video interview questions, and an assessment centre.

Beazley uses assessment-centre style evaluation that often includes competency-based interviews and programme-specific exercises, which helps reduce “one interviewer decides everything” risk.

The company does not consistently provide a single, candidate-facing page that lays out stages, timelines, and feedback expectations for each early-career pathway, so first-time applicants often piece this together from third-party sources.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.0

/ 20

The company states that early-career roles come with a progression map and support toward professional qualifications, backed by a Beazley Academy offering focused on personal and professional skills.

Beazley describes programme-specific development in some tracks, such as funded qualifications during the graduate programme (for example, business analysis qualifications for Claims Business Management).

The company links early-career learning to practical support and structure, including a hybrid model that expects office time for development and a remote office setup allowance for home working days.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

16.8

/ 20

The company publishes clear starting pay for UK early-career cohorts, including £33,000 for graduates and £24,000–£25,000 for apprentices, alongside eligibility for annual bonus and programme pay increases.

Beazley adds unusually concrete, early-career-friendly benefits such as reimbursed travel costs (with London and Birmingham caps), a monthly lifestyle allowance, free lunch in-office, private healthcare, pension and life assurance.

The company’s pay transparency is strongest on UK early-career pages and programme listings, while visibility is less consistent on some non-program roles and outside the UK.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

14.0

/ 20

The company reports high internal engagement and favourability scores in company reporting, and public employee reviews also point to strong culture and work-life ratings compared with many insurers.

Beazley builds progression into programmes via rotations, salary increases while on programme, and qualification funding with completion-linked incentives on some tracks.

The company does not publish cohort outcome data such as internship-to-offer conversion, graduate completion-to-role mapping, or early-tenure retention by programme, which limits confidence about typical promotion speed after entry.

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