Director, Claims Operations

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About the role

  • Director leading Assurant’s Canadian claims operations across insurance and protection products. Modernizing high-volume claims through automation, scalable processes, and performance management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end claims operations and support functions to achieve service, quality, productivity, and financial objectives
  • Drive operational excellence through process simplification, automation, robotics, KPI management, and continuous improvement
  • Build scalable operating models to support business growth and increasing claim volumes
  • Monitor performance metrics and use data-driven insights to improve customer outcomes and operational effectiveness
  • Ensure compliant, accurate, and consistent claims adjudication practices
  • Partner with internal stakeholders, clients, and vendors to solve complex issues and enhance service delivery
  • Lead, coach, and develop managers and supervisors while fostering accountability and a high-performance culture
  • Champion organizational change initiatives and influence stakeholders across the business
  • Report to the AVP, Canadian Operations
  • Shape the future operating model and drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of claim administration leadership experience managing managers and multi-level operational teams
  • Progressive experience in claims operations, claims administration, or a related high-volume service environment
  • Expertise in claims operations and operational performance management
  • Experience driving process improvement, automation, transformation, and change initiatives
  • Ability to analyze performance metrics and translate insights into business results
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
  • Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
  • Preferred: experience in travel insurance, creditor insurance, embedded benefits, employee benefits, life insurance, healthcare claims, or P&C claims operations
  • Preferred: professional designations such as CIP, FCIP, or related certifications
  • Preferred: experience supporting contact center or customer service operations
  • Employment contingent upon completion of a required identity verification process, which may include biometric technology where permitted by applicable law

Benefits

  • Virtual work arrangement
  • Salary growth within the position
  • Opportunity for significant visibility and strategic impact
  • Ability to shape how claims operations scale for future growth
  • Leadership development opportunity
  • Virtual interviews conducted on video
  • Identity verification process and biometric technology where permitted by law

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$105,800 - $174,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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