Farming Propositions Consultant

• Play a key role in shaping NFU Mutual’s farming propositions, influencing real change for rural customers and communities across the UK.
• Work at the heart of the business, collaborating with underwriting, pricing and claims to turn insight into commercially impactful solutions.
• Hybrid role with 80% homeworking and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role:

At NFU Mutual, our farming propositions play a central role in how we support rural communities and farming businesses evolve with a changing agricultural landscape. As a Propositions Consultant, you’ll help shape, review and refine our farming product propositions to ensure they remain competitive, commercially strong and aligned to customer needs.

You’ll lead or contribute to the evaluation of existing propositions, using data, insight and market understanding to identify opportunities for improvement. Working closely with colleagues across underwriting, claims, pricing and distribution, you’ll assess the commercial and customer impact of potential changes and develop well-structured recommendations and business cases to support decision making. You’ll also bring a balanced view of risk, regulation and customer outcomes.

This is a highly collaborative role where you’ll act as a central point of coordination across multiple stakeholders, ensuring the right expertise is brought together to progress initiatives effectively. You’ll support propositions through governance and delivery stages, helping translate strategy into practical, customer-focused solutions. Alongside planned reviews, you’ll also contribute to ad hoc projects and initiatives that support the wider farming strategy.

With up to 80% homeworking available and 20% based in Stratford-upon-Avon, the role also offers the opportunity to attend industry shows and networking events across the UK, building relationships and maintaining a strong understanding of developments within the agricultural sector.

This is a varied and visible role that combines strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, offering the opportunity to influence meaningful change within one of NFU Mutual’s most important markets.

About you:

You’ll bring strong Commercial GI insurance experience and a solid understanding of how products and underwriting decisions translate into customer and commercial outcomes. Comfortable working with data and insight, you’ll be able to evaluate performance, assess impact and shape well-reasoned recommendations that balance risk, regulation and opportunity. Knowledge of agricultural or farming insurance products, or experience within the rural sector, would be highly advantageous.

You’ll thrive in a collaborative environment, confidently engaging and influencing stakeholders across the business and externally. Organised, proactive and self-motivated, you’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, building trusted relationships and communicating complex ideas clearly and persuasively.

To succeed in this role, you’ll be able to demonstrate:

• Commercial GI insurance experience, with good underwriting and product knowledge
• Knowledge of agricultural insurance products or the wider rural sector
• The ability to analyse and interpret data to support commercially sound decision-making
• Proven experience engaging, influencing and managing stakeholders at multiple levels
• Confident communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex information clearly
• A proactive, collaborative and highly organised approach, with strong networking capability

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards:

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary up to £49,000 depending on experience
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual:

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.