Senior Technical Claims Handler

The position is primarily home-based, with occasional travel required. To effectively fulfil your role and contribute positively to our company culture, you will need to attend the office at least quarterly and participate in a selection of company-wide events.

About Homeprotect

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle – to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry.

We’re experts at insuring people who want to build or buy a unique property, renovate, rent a home or leave it unoccupied. We can cover people who travel a lot, run a business from home or even collect rare treasures. We protect people who love living in a listed building, having a view of a river or sunbathing on a flat roof.

We can do this because our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs and our UK customer support teams are on hand to provide information and support when only a real person will do.

Our insurance has already empowered hundreds of thousands of people to protect their homes and the things they love. But we’re not content with being the leading provider of what’s called ‘non-standard’ insurance. We believe there’s no such thing as ‘standard’. We’re all unique and we all deserve home insurance designed with our individual needs in mind – something our combination of real people and smart tech enables us to do.

Our simple promise? Whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we’ve got you covered.

What it's like to work here

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our people. We’re a small but perfectly formed team, made up of insurance industry specialists alongside a diverse mix of technologists, data scientists and customer and marketing champions from all sorts of industries and backgrounds. We all bring our individual expertise, an appetite for innovation and a shared ambition to empower people to protect their homes and the things that they love.

Working in a fast-paced environment where change happens regularly is how we do things. But we also recognise that you’ll do your best work when you have the right balance, and that’s why we have fully embraced hybrid working, and in some cases, fully remote working, giving our teams the flexibility to choose the right location and working hours for them. We prefer to focus on the outputs of their work, not where they complete it. That said, there will be times when getting together in one location makes sense, but day-to-day, our teams have the freedom to decide where to work and we trust that they’ll make the right decision balancing the business needs and their own preferences.

Most companies think their culture is great, however at Homeprotect, we have the proof to back this up. We have been recognised externally as a Great Place to Work for the last three consecutive years. And in our latest survey, 94% of our employees agreed it’s a great place to work.

Sound good? Read on to find out more about joining our team…

Role Overview

As a Senior Technical Claims Handler within the Claims function you will be responsible for a varying range of duties. Your role is key to ensuring all claims and key processes, managed within the technical claims team are handled with accuracy, progress with without delay and reach the optimum conclusion.  

Key Responsibilities

• Reviewing and assessing household claims that sit within our desk team, loss adjusting services and suppliers to assess whether any leakage has occurred or being able to prevent leakage from occurring. This will be across all household perils up to the value of £250K.
• Your responsibility will be to assess whether a claim is progressing correctly or whether an alternative repair/replacement method is more suitable.
• You will be required to present costs savings and the ability to track leakage across the year so good reporting and presentations skills are essential. This may include reporting findings to our management board and various parts of the business.
• The ability to assess where errors have occurred and suggest changes.
• Assisting the Claims Technical Lead in reporting areas of concern and providing recommendations for improvement across the claims function.
• Assisting the Technical Claims Lead in carrying some management duties such as development plans and assigning workloads.

Requirements

We would love to hear from people with the following skills and experience for this role:

• Minimum 10 years in the household claims arena across all perils.
• An excellent understanding of claims reserving and best practice.
• Audit experience of large and complex losses.
• A good understanding of repair methods and settlement routes ideally with scoping and validation experience.
• Be comfortable challenging subject matter experts.
• Strong analysis and reporting skills.

Benefits

We think we have a fantastic company culture and welcome new team members with open arms.  We also offer a great range of benefits, including:

• A genuinely flexible approach to work. We are really supportive of you flexing your hours and location to help you keep everything in your life in balance
• Opportunities to focus on your professional growth whether that’s through training or other personal development opportunities - we want you to build your long-term career with us
• Discounted home insurance for you, your friends and your family
• An in-house wellbeing programme including seminars and workshops from wellbeing coaches and professionals
• Home working starter kit and money to spend on additional equipment you may need
• Charitable giving scheme, so you can donate to our partner charity, or one of your choice 
• The opportunity to work alongside brilliant people, because this isn’t something that every organisation can offer!

On top of that, we also offer all the standard stuff, like:

• 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy and sell >5 days annually
• Private medical cover
• Life insurance
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Pension contribution
• Free fruit and really good coffee for the days you come into the office
• Local and national retail discounts

Have we captured your imagination? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Unique as standard

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, as long as you meet the knowledge, skills and experience criteria for the role and have the right to work in the UK. We think everyone can excel in the right environment – no matter your gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disabilities or beliefs. We believe in celebrating difference, and everything that makes both our customers and people unique, by creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any extra help with your application, or if you have any requirements at any stage of the recruitment journey.

Equally, lots of our staff at Homeprotect work flexibly and in a variety of ways, whether that’s different core hours or remote working. Please chat to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need, as we’re always happy to explore what's possible for the role.

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