Senior Claims Advisor

Job title: Senior Claims Handler

Department: First Response Team

Location: Peterborough

Hours: 4 days on 4 days off

Salary: Competitive

Were looking for a Senior Claims Handler to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britains fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities grow with us.

About the role

Supporting the day to day running of the Contact Centre floor in daily operations with a hands-on approach to assisting with inbound calls.

A frontline support to your colleagues motivating supporting and coaching them focusing on those who require additional support.

Driving performance through achieving set objectives and working within the management team to achieve all objectives for the business ensuring this is done to an exceptional standard.

Key responsibilities

• Take a high-volume of inbound call from repairers policy holders and insurers assist with escalated calls webchats emails and other such workflows.

• Obtain record and update workflow steps accurately into a bespoke database and have the ability to challenge updates where required.

• Provide accurate and clear updates to team leaders customers and clients where necessary.

• Manage own workload ensuring all tasks are completed. Prioritise claims and escalate to a Team Leader or Compliance team when necessary.

• Meet or exceed all SLAs. (e.g. on-site deadlines estimate deadlines repair completion deadlines)

• Be approachable and provide help and guidance to Claims Handlers where required and ensure any training points behaviours and performance are recognised and flagged.

• Take ownership of more complex or technical claims.

• Maintain the daily operations of the office environment whilst Team Managers are in meetings or out of office inclusive of out of hours cover.

• Take on a senior role within the wider team consistently demonstrating an outstanding attitude and willingness to go the extra mile.

• Identify problems within processes / the FRT Team and provide solutions which you will communicate with your Manager.

Skills and experience

• Excellent customer service skills

• Ability to handle a high volume of calls daily

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Able to manage own time and workload

• Manage queries through to resolution or pass to the appropriate person.

• Be comfortable with a fast paced and changing environment.

• Maintain a proactive approach towards helping others and problem solving.

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group looking after team members is a major priority. Whether youre at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices one of our AAR sites or working from home well make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first to impressive rewards for our employee of the month and little perks like free fruit and cereal well go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UKs 100 fastest-growing private companies we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UKs largest fleets and insurance companies supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what its like to work with us Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are and how we work with team members customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someones bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen Be accountable. Take the initiative work fast and do a great job.
• Strive for better Be bold. Challenge the norm make small improvements often.
• Win together Be a team-player. Win together learn together respect each other.