Team Lead: Specialised Classes Claims
Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)
Date: 1 week ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
Join TIH, home to some of South Africa’s leading financial service providers, and grow your career while being part of an organisation with purpose.
Job Purpose
To manage, coach and guide a team in Claims. Ensure individual contributors
are performing against targets, while reviewing their performance and coaching
them to do so to assist in achieving the required operational results.
Responsibilities
Operations Management
Supervise a team/teams to drive outcomes needed to be effective and efficient.
Organisational Capability Building
Use the organisation's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Customer Management
Help manage internal and external customer relationships by using relevant systems. Manage any escalations or complaints from business partners. Act as liaison between external customers and internal support departments.
Customer Service
Act as first-line supervisor of a team providing operational support, and play a key role in helping to achieve targets in areas such as productivity or turnaround times. Ensure effective customer relationships and maintain customer satisfaction at all times.
Stakeholder Engagement
Contribute to stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concern. Maintain relationships with key stakeholders and business partners
Leadership and Direction
Explain the local action plan to support team members in their understanding of what needs to be done and how this relates to the broader business plan and the organisation's strategy, mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
Performance Management
Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance. Monitor the performance of the team; take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.
Insights and Reporting
Collect and interpret relevant data and transform the data collected into meaningful and easy to read reports.
Improvement / Innovation
Identify shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, and use established change management programs to address them.
Operational Compliance
Identify, within the team, instances of non-compliance with the organisation's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these and escalating issues as appropriate.
Correspondence
Respond to requests and escalated requests using telephonic conversation or emails (internal and external stakeholders).
Personal Capability Building
Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching. Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
Education
Matric / Grade 12 or SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential); Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) competency requirements: FAIS recognized qualifications / Regulatory Examinations / Class of Business Certification and / or CPD according to your DOFA where applicable (Advantageous) A relevant 3-year Business related degree / diploma (Advantageous).
Experience
2 - 4 years Commercial Insurance experience (Essential); Short Term Insurance experience (Essential); 2 or more years Claims Experience (Essential). 1 or more years experience of supervising and directing
people and other resources to achieve specific end results
(Essential)
Think you have what it takes to be part of an unstoppable team who constantly finds better ways to give peace of mind? Don't wait, apply now.
Job Purpose
To manage, coach and guide a team in Claims. Ensure individual contributors
are performing against targets, while reviewing their performance and coaching
them to do so to assist in achieving the required operational results.
Responsibilities
Operations Management
Supervise a team/teams to drive outcomes needed to be effective and efficient.
Organisational Capability Building
Use the organisation's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Customer Management
Help manage internal and external customer relationships by using relevant systems. Manage any escalations or complaints from business partners. Act as liaison between external customers and internal support departments.
Customer Service
Act as first-line supervisor of a team providing operational support, and play a key role in helping to achieve targets in areas such as productivity or turnaround times. Ensure effective customer relationships and maintain customer satisfaction at all times.
Stakeholder Engagement
Contribute to stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concern. Maintain relationships with key stakeholders and business partners
Leadership and Direction
Explain the local action plan to support team members in their understanding of what needs to be done and how this relates to the broader business plan and the organisation's strategy, mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.
Performance Management
Respond to personal objectives and use performance management systems to improve personal performance. Monitor the performance of the team; take appropriate corrective action to ensure timeliness and quality; contribute to formal individual performance management and appraisal.
Insights and Reporting
Collect and interpret relevant data and transform the data collected into meaningful and easy to read reports.
Improvement / Innovation
Identify shortcomings in existing processes, systems and procedures, and use established change management programs to address them.
Operational Compliance
Identify, within the team, instances of non-compliance with the organisation's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these and escalating issues as appropriate.
Correspondence
Respond to requests and escalated requests using telephonic conversation or emails (internal and external stakeholders).
Personal Capability Building
Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching. Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
Education
Matric / Grade 12 or SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential); Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) competency requirements: FAIS recognized qualifications / Regulatory Examinations / Class of Business Certification and / or CPD according to your DOFA where applicable (Advantageous) A relevant 3-year Business related degree / diploma (Advantageous).
Experience
2 - 4 years Commercial Insurance experience (Essential); Short Term Insurance experience (Essential); 2 or more years Claims Experience (Essential). 1 or more years experience of supervising and directing
people and other resources to achieve specific end results
(Essential)
Think you have what it takes to be part of an unstoppable team who constantly finds better ways to give peace of mind? Don't wait, apply now.
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