Workplace
The goal of our workplace and employment policies is to encourage a positive, high performance culture where Catlin people can fulfil their career ambitions while helping the Company and our clients to achieve their corporate ambitions.
We seek to recruit and employ the best people regardless of age, gender, disability or ethnicity. In particular we aim to attract people who will be committed to a long-term career with the Group. In return, we offer competitive reward packages and career development opportunities within a strong organisation with sound values.
Working for Catlin
Our employees
We currently employ over 1,600 people across our worldwide office network.
Objectives
Our workplace objectives are to:
- encourage a positive and high performance culture in support of our vision
- a commitment to transparency through communications and the free exchange of information
- a focus on accountability and teamwork
- acting with integrity: behaving with the highest ethical standards
- dignity: dealing with all people with fairness and respect
- encourage personal development
- reward superior performance
- provide a safe and secure working environment
- encourage diversity and equal opportunities.
Corporate culture
Our distinctive corporate culture is important in attracting, retaining and developing high-quality people.
- it motivates and empowers our people to work to the best of their abilities
- it reinforces the relationships that exist among Catlin colleagues, clients and brokers.
Diversity
As a global organisation, we have a naturally diverse workforce. This is one of our strengths, enabling us to build relationships with local brokers and clients wherever we operate.
Learning and development
We run a number of workplace initiatives, including:
- the Catlin development programme, which is an intensive mix of industry and technical development, personal development programmes, professional qualifications and cross-departmental business rotations
- management and leadership development programmes.
Customer service and team work
To deliver excellent service to our clients on a consistent basis we:
- build the best tools and processes
- develop effective principles and policies centrally
- train and empower our people locally
- ensure that teamwork is front of mind at all times.
Health and safety
We take all appropriate efforts to ensure the health, safety and welfare of our people in the workplace and others who may be affected by our operations.
Health and safety responsibilities are given equal priority with other statutory duties and objectives.
Internal communications
To reinforce the value of transparency within the company, we take internal communications very seriously.
We use a variety of methods to provide information to our people, from quarterly company-wide updates to the global intranet, The Catwalk. As well as providing comprehensive information about the Group, the intranet allows us to communicate effectively with our people in different regions of the world.