Team Leader – Ops Perf & Quality

Careers at UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Zurich Middle East is part of Zurich Insurance Group, with a focus on enabling local communities to understand and manage risk. As Team Leader – Operations Performance & Quality you will monitor adherence to performance frameworks to ensure compliance with corporate, regulatory, and legislative requirements across the organization.

You will lead a team, develop procedures, and coach staff to improve performance while maintaining thorough records and timely management information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (or equivalent) and 2 years’ experience managing people.
• Understanding of Insurance, corporate savings and pensions / end of service benefits.
• Experience in an international and diverse cultural organization would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Monitor adherence to performance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
• Resolve simple issues and improve procedures.
• Maintain accurate records and generate management information to quality standards.
• Coach team on behaviours to improve performance and support development.
• Plan and implement performance improvement initiatives.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Microsoft Office

English communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Team Leader – Ops Perf & Quality

Job Summary

Zurich Middle East is part of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world’s largest and most experienced insurers. Our mission is to help our local community understand and protect themselves from risk both locally and globally.

Reporting to Senior Manager – Procurement & Operations Performance, as Team Leader – Operations Performance & Quality you are expected to assist with monitoring adherence to operational performance frameworks in order to ensure operational areas remain compliant with corporate, regulatory, and legislative requirements to which the organization is expected to operate.

Job Accountabilities

As Team Leader, your role will involve:

• Demonstrating knowledge of relevant systems, processes, and procedures.
• They help to resolve simple issues and develop procedure and help with seeking ways to improve them.
• They also maintain accurate and appropriate records, producing timely management information to the agreed levels of quality.
• They demonstrate clear adherence to principles and attend all training and development courses required to ensure a high degree of workplace knowledge of processes and systems.
• Supervises assigned team members’ daily activities related to performance metrics, behaviors and company and regulatory guidelines.
• They coach employees on behaviors and activities with the goal of performance improvement, and direct selection, technical training, and career development of personnel.
• They create and implement plans that will improve individual, team, and business performance, and maintain thorough and current working knowledge of procedures, methods, and regulatory.

Job Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred (or equivalent), andinternal experience and managing people for 2 years.
• Understanding of Insurance, corporate savings and pensions / end of service benefits being strongly preferred.
• Previous experience working within an international and diverse cultural organization would be beneficial.

Skills:

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Accuracy and Attention to details.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft office packages– Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills both written and verbal in English.
• Digital Literacy