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Operations Manager

We currently have an opportunity for a talented and ambitious individual to take up a management position as part of our Agricultural & Rural Network Team, as an Operations Manager for our team in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The team consists of loss adjusters and their support, reporting to the Regional Director.

The Operations Manager role involves driving performance and ensuring your team continue to deliver to client requirements and the highest levels of customer care, alongside quality and service. You will also ensure the team receive the right level of support to enable them to meet the standards expected and to realise their own ambitions and career objectives.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Mentoring, training and development of all direct reports

• Ensuring your team meet their targets for client service, technical reporting and quality

• Promotion and delivery of our goal of making claims easy for everyone

• Understand the importance of excellent customer care, and deliver that with your team

• Meeting the financial targets set for your team, and understanding how you can influence the financial outcomes

• Completing progressive performance meetings for your team

• Compliance with all Sedgwick processes and procedures

• Liaison with Insurer clients as required, and understanding their bespoke requirements

• Development of client and broker relationships

• Building good working relationships with other internal product lines/departments as required and the wider team

Ideally you will have:

• The desire and ability to deliver excellent customer service

• Proven management skills, and the confidence to lead a high performing team dealing with complex claims

• Have experience in the handling of domestic and commercial insurance claims. Agricultural claims handling would also be beneficial

• First class communication skills, both written and verbal

• Competent IT skills, with the capability to maintain and work from an electronic file to a high auditable standard.

• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your workload under pressure

• The ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with colleagues, and understand and satisfy their needs

Working at Sedgwick

Our company is a place where creative and caring people of all backgrounds can be challenged, grow as individuals, and feel a higher purpose in the unique value they bring and the difference they make in the lives of others. We celebrate our differences; cultivating uniqueness and belonging allows us to connect with our consumers on a personal level, understand our clients’ needs, support the communities in which we operate, and perform at our best.

We’re passionate and understanding about our colleagues – so we have built flexibility into our colleague working model. If you wish to work from home, split your working time between the home and office or change your hours so you can collect your children or care for someone in your family, we’re supportive of that. As a flexible employer, we’re happy to discuss options that take into consideration your personal needs for this position during your interview.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to: ID document verification, credit check, address verification, employment verification, employment gap verification, UK DBS, UK financial regulator search, anti-money laundering search, directorship search and global watch list check.

Sedgwick is committed to Equal Opportunity and Diversity. We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the ground of race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation or disability.

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Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Sedgwick retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.

Taking care of people is at the heart of everything we do. Caring counts

Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. Every day, in every time zone, the most well-known and respected organizations place their trust in us to help their employees regain health and productivity, guide their consumers through the claims process, protect their brand and minimize business interruptions. Our more than 30,000 colleagues across 80 countries embrace our shared purpose and values as they demonstrate what it means to work for an organization committed to doing the right thing – one where caring counts. Watch this video to learn more about us. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywxedjBGSfA)