Team Leader

Job Title: Team Leader - First Notification of Loss
Contract Type: permanent/part time/job share
Salary Range: £26,000 - £34,000
Location: Gloucester - hybrid
Work Level: 3
Closing Date for applications: Sunday 7th April 2024

Team Leader: We have a fantastic opportunity in our First Notification of Loss department as a Team Leader in Gloucester. As a Team Leader you will be responsible for all aspects of customer service within your team and will also be responsible for the monitoring of your team using department measures data to improve performance. Also ensuring that company processes and compliance are adhered to.

As a Team Leader you will carry out annual and half-yearly performance reviews, be responsible for developing your team, and for ensuring that suitable development plans are in place. As a Team Leader you will monitor adherence to the complaints process and carry out root cause analysis with a view to improving customer journey. You will also represent your team, the department and/or their operations leader on new initiatives, projects & process changes where required.

Main Responsibilities as Team Leader:

• To lead a team by example, motivate and develop. To be responsible for ongoing training, coaching and development.
• Discuss ongoing performance on a regular basis ensuring that any under performance is addressed.
• Carry out yearly and half yearly performance reviews.
• Ensure that fraud is identified and investigated appropriately using all available investigation techniques.
• Effective prioritisation of work within the team to maximise cost control.
• Understanding and utilising operational measures to build capability within the team.
• Ensure that the team is managed utilising company policies with appropriate records kept eg absence & disciplinary.
• Monitor complaints within the team ensuring company and FCA guidelines are met with feedback provided where appropriate.
• Provide training and technical support to the teams to protect claims costs with emphasis on:

• Spend & Recovery

• To ensure that fraud is identified and investigated appropriately using all available investigation techniques.

Skills and experience you need as Team Leader

• Thorough understanding of claims procedures and handling skills with the ability to adapt to an ever changing environment.
• Full understanding of Insurance industry
• Proven experience in personal claims environment.
• Experience of investigating and resolving complaints.
• Experience at identifying and investigating fraud
• Ability to coach team members and manage performance where necessary as well as carry out yearly & half yearly performance reviews.
• Ability to effectively plan and prioritise
• Theoretical insurance / legal knowledge obtained by experience and / or success in insurance exams would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication.
• Ability to analyse and interpret of data.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate staff to achieve team performance in accordance with the Ageas leaders framework.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Team Leader role based in Gloucester:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) . We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.