Commercial Claims Team Leader (X1)

CAREER OPPORTUNITY
An exciting opportunity exists for a Commercial Team Manager to join the Claims Department. This position is based in Centurion.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Deliver exceptional client service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative, and appropriate claims handling.
• Handling of performance related issues and disciplinary matters.
• Manage, support and developing a team of people to ensure service delivery and performance management applied consistently.
• Manage people related matters i.e., attendance, absence, and attrition (staff turnover) within the team to ensure service level contributions are met or exceeded.
• Weekly team meetings, participation on one-on-one discussion and other meetings required from time to time.
• Demonstrates an effective communication style, that motivates, across internal and external teams and individuals that may become involved with claim tasks.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve any challenges relating to claims being handled in line with claims policies and procedures such as SLAs and TAT.
• Meeting of set deadlines.
• Managing team’s task adherence (diary, message, and email management)
• Monitoring immediate first call resolution within the claims department.
• Management of outstanding claims monthly. (Outstanding listings)
• Authorise and validate claims that does not fall in the staff mandate.
• Ensure compliance in terms of "Under Supervision" and record keeping.
• Liaising, build excellent relationships and ensure accurate and timeous response to brokers and clients on queries.
• Monitor effective use of approved suppliers and adherence to contracted rates to improve loss ratios.
• Auditing of claims within your team monthly
• Monitor equal distribution of claims.
• Analyse training needs: identify possible problem areas and change weakness into strength.
• Provide supporting reports and information to Claims Portfolio Manager to compile feedback to Executive Head
• Ensuring client satisfaction improvement: QA processes/CSI scores/Complaints Root Cause Analysis.
• Provide policy wording interpretation.
• Courteous and professional attendance to telephonic queries.
• Deliver strategic results in term of the Vision and Mission.
• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Demonstrate commitment toward the team and participate in building team culture.
• Collaborate and work closely with all role-players thereby leveraging constructive team dynamics and innovation.
• Identify and recommend enhancements to processes.
• Monitoring of call pause procedures and availability within the department together with managing the contact centre.
• Proactively ensure the most effective use of time, resources, money, materials, or equipment in line with policies and pr...