Senior Corporate Risk Manager - EHS & Fleet Claims

Reliance, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliance, Inc. is seeking an experienced Corporate Risk Manager to oversee a broad workers’ compensation, automobile liability, and general liability claims portfolio.

You will drive reserving, settlements, and loss-cost control while coordinating with TPAs, insurers, and cross-functional leaders to protect the enterprise. The role requires deep claims expertise, strong analytics, and the ability to influence senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Insurance, Business, Finance, or related discipline.
• 7+ years of progressive experience managing workers’ compensation and/or casualty claims in corporate, insurance, brokerage, TPA, or comparable environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing automobile liability and general liability claims, including high-severity matters.
• Strong working knowledge of auto and general liability insurance, claims administration, reserving, settlement strategy, and risk transfer.
• Proven ability to effectively manage adjusters, claimants’ reps, vendors, insurers.
• Experience managing claims across multiple jurisdictions and navigating varying state workers’ compensation and liability requirements.
• Strong analytical and financial skills, including the ability to evaluate reserves, incurred losses, projected ultimate costs, settlements, and loss trends.
• Demonstrated success controlling claim costs and improving claim outcomes.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and reporting/analytics tools.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, judgment, organization, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Own and actively manage a large portfolio of workers’ compensation, automobile liability, and general liability claims from first notice through closure.
• Control total claim costs through early intervention, appropriate reserving, settlement negotiation, subrogation, recovery opportunities, and timely claim resolution.
• Establish claim-management strategy for low- to high-severity, routine to complex, non-litigated, potentially catastrophic and catastrophic claims.
• Regularly review open claims, reserves, payments, liability exposure, and projected costs; challenge unsupported assumptions and excessive reserves.
• Directly interact with/hold TPAs, insurance carriers, adjusters, rapid response teams, investigators, and vendors accountable for claim outcomes and service levels.
• Evaluate settlement opportunities and negotiate from a position of strong factual and financial understanding.
• Identify subrogation, contribution and other recovery opportunities and ensure those opportunities are pursued and resolved.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Procurement, and business leaders to mitigate losses and prevent recurrence.
• Analyze claims data and trends to identify systemic loss drivers, emerging exposures, operational weaknesses, and opportunities to reduce frequency and severity.
• Prepare claim reviews, loss forecasts, dashboards, and financial analyses for senior leadership.
• Work with Corporate EHS and Risk Management to support insurance renewals, loss modeling, exposure analysis, collateral requirements, and evaluation of risk-financing alternatives.
• Partner with Legal to support defense and resolution of litigated claims.
• Monitor compliance with applicable workers’ compensation, liability, insurance, reporting, and claims-handling requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong controls, documentation standards, claim-management protocols, vendor performance expectations, and audit processes.
• Conduct periodic claim audits and performance reviews of TPAs, carriers, and other service providers.
• Maintain relentless focus on timely closure of claims while balancing financial, operational, employee, stakeholder, and reputational considerations.
• Educate Operating Group EHS and Fleet Safety Leadership, and implement proactive strategies and systems – in conjunction with Corporate EHS/Fleet.

Skills

Workers’ compensation claims

Casualty claims management

Automobile liability

General liability

Reserving & settlements

Vendor management

Excel & PowerPoint

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Multi-jurisdiction experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management, Insurance, Business, Finance, or related discipline

5+ years progressive experience in risk/claims management

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Reliance, Inc. is seeking an experienced Corporate Risk Manager to oversee a broad workers’ compensation, automobile liability, and general liability claims portfolio.

You will drive reserving, settlements, and loss-cost control while coordinating with TPAs, insurers, and cross-functional leaders to protect the enterprise. The role requires deep claims expertise, strong analytics, and the ability to influence senior leadership.