CAT Leader - Property Claims

Aviva; Alberta; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Alberta is seeking a Property CAT Leader to manage a team responding to severe weather events. The successful candidate will enhance customer experience, lead effectively through change, and develop team capabilities in claims handling. Ideal candidates will possess significant experience in the claims industry, alongside strong interpersonal and analytical skills. The position includes a compelling rewards package and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Base compensation

Annual bonus eligibility

Retirement savings and share plan

Health benefits

Competitive vacation package

Corporate wellness programs

Qualifications

• 5 + years of working in Claims / insurance industry experience with a strong knowledge of Property.
• 2 years of experience leading people.
• First Notice of Loss Catastrophic Event experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify and retain the best possible talent to strengthen the business.
• Create an environment dedicated to exceptional customer outcomes.
• Make decisions using data to identify performance blockers.

Skills

Claims / insurance industry experience

Technical competence in Personal and Commercial insurance

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

University Degree or College Diploma or equivalent Property technical work experience

CIP or FCIP Industry designation

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

Our Property Claims team is once again growing, this time with a Catastrophe (CAT) team and we are looking for a Property CAT Leader.

In this role, the CAT Leader and their team will deploy to the location of a severe weather event impacting our customers to inspect, write damage estimates and help our customers through the claims process. You would be expected to respond within 24 hours notice and 365 days a year. Extended work hours and weekend work will be required while working a CAT event and when not responding to a CAT, your team will be supporting the business as needed. In this role you will build an environment for people to do the best work of their lives & build a stronger team by developing employee’s potential in their current role and for future career aspirations.

The CAT Leader will also identify and collaborate with various team members to improve system conditions to impact the service for our customers, the environment for our people and our financial performance.

The successful candidate will communicate effectively with confidence, curiosity, courage and in a collaborative manner creating a clear vision of the outcomes we require and how our people will contribute to achieve those.

Come join our team!

What you’ll do:

People manager & architect:

• Identify, assess and retain the best possible talent to strengthen our business

• Understand and know our people, support training and develop their capability in the role and work with them to support career aspirations while manage performance

• Have honest, constructive conversations with our people, set clear direction and goals giving frequent, honest, clear and constructive feedback to improve their performance and achieve the business goals.

• Lead effectively and positively through implementation of change.

• Understand and apply risk management controls proportionately

• Ensure technical development of claims file handlers

• Complete ride‑along inspections with your people to develop their technical acumen of writing estimates and look for opportunities to improve the customer experience

Operational & performance effectiveness:

• Create an environment dedicated to exceptional customer outcomes and champion the improvement to service

• Use data to understand how our people and the business unit are performing and initiate improvement activity through to execution.

• Customer demand analysis – assist in identifying the root cause of “waste and failure” in the business unit

• Be “in the work” to understand our people’s capability, our unit’s performance.

• Make decisions using data; observe the environment to identify performance blockers/barriers. Use the data, insight and expertise of the frontline to determine how we improve our overall performance, results and the customer’s journey.

• Participate in the Quality assurance programme for your team. Identify and ensure training is addressed in a timely and effective manner.

• Fully understand and mitigate internal and external claims risks you are accountable for managing, meet our compliance obligations and measure how our team meet those requirements

• Take full responsibility for the results of our team, how they contribute to the overall companies performance and understand the consequence and impact of key decisions you make

Business & Financial Acumen:

• Clearly articulate and effectively communicate the link between our purpose, our strategy, our commitment and our culture

• Expert understanding of the claims experience while understanding the technical strategic direction for the claims file

• Look for new and incremental ways to improve things every day for the customer

• Clear understanding of financial elements of our claims function to ensure we remain financially strong and deliver year on year improvement in our business performance

• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of the financial information captured in Aviva systems

• Identify and report on any suspicions of fraud or financial irregularities in line with existing Aviva procedures

Innovation:

• Identify opportunities to improve the customer journey, the claims handling processes and financial outcomes for our business

• Lead change initiatives for the team and business function

What you’ll bring:

• CIP or FCIP Industry designation

• University Degree or College Diploma or equivalent Property technical work experience

• 5 + years of working in Claims / insurance industry experience with a strong knowledge of Property

• 2 years of experience leading people

• Performance management and career development of others

• First Notice of Loss Catastrophic Event experience

• Technical competence in Personal and Commercial insurance

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Computer proficiency; Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

• Ability to gain insight from data to improve the performance of our people

• Sound decision making and problem‑solving skills

• Prior experience writing estimates/ scoping building damage

What You’ll Get:

• Please note that individual salary is determined by factors such as job‑related knowledge, skills and experience, as well as internal equity.

• Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

• Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

• We’ll support your professional development education.

• Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

• Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

• Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is an existing position which has been posted both internally & externally.

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