Old Mutual Nigeria consists of a Life Assurance and General Insurance business and provides a wide spectrum of insurance solutions tailored to meet unique individual and corporate clients' circumstances.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Head, Claims (General Insurance)
Job Requisition ID: JR-52301
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time
Job Description
- This role manages a team in a technical environment (Claims administration), with some individual deliveries and is individually accountable for achieving results through others.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the management of a unit of technical specialists in General Insurance Claims Administration in support of business objectives.
- Normal functions pertaining to management (people, production, customer and finance) apply, but in a technical environment.
- Team size would vary but would mostly be between 5 and 15 specialist staff.
- Also responsible for technical deliveries themselves (high level of technical knowledge in related field to their own staff).
- Technical skills would relate to General Insurance Claims Administration
- Carries responsibility to deliver on operational projects within field of expertise.
Key Focus Areas
Budget Control:
- Manages an operational budget.
Operational Delivery:
- Manages delivery of specialist team in support of business objectives.
- Responsible to deliver on operational projects within field of expertise.
- May be personally responsible for some technical deliveries.
- Extensive experience in day-to-day management.
Relationship Building:
- Establishes and maintains relationships with Internal stakeholders.
- Builds and manages external relationships.
Team Effectiveness:
- Individually accountable for customer/client service delivery through efforts of others.
- Accountable for others' time, task and output quality.
- Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others.
- Plans and assigns work over the applicable period.
- Guides and directs staff to achieve operational excellence standards.
- Creates a climate for optimal performance.
Manages performance:
- Selects potential staff to sustain customer/client service delivery.
Requirements
- A First Degree or its equivalent.
- Associate qualification of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN)
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
- Interpersonal and time management skills.
- Team Leadership skills.
- Good knowledge of MS packages (Especially MS Word, MS Excel and Outlook)
- 5 – 10 years’ General Insurance Claims Administration experience. Team Lead experience will be an advantage.
Application Closing Date
2nd April, 2024.
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