Head, Claims (General Insurance) at Old Mutual Nigeria

Posted on Tue 19th Mar, 2024 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

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.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online