Bilingual Senior Disability Claims Consultant

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About the role

  • Manage a block of litigated disability claims at Sun Life with a focus on proactive customer service and financial outcomes. Collaborate closely with legal and claims operations teams.

Responsibilities

  • Manage your litigated block of cases with a strong proactive customer service focus, exhibiting expert skill in both disability and litigation management and following relevant practices, processes, and guidelines.
  • Represent Sun Life in a highly professional manner at mediations, examinations for discovery, pre-trials, trials, grievance arbitrations and at any other judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding.
  • Instruct our legal counsel on the final disposition of litigated claims.
  • Handle other escalated matters in thorough, timely and effective manner, following relevant practices and processes, again with a strong proactive customer service focus.
  • Provide leadership in complex case management.
  • Build a strong knowledge of litigation management strategies.
  • Work to improve your quality outcomes.
  • Build strong, effective relationships with your manager, and other members of the litigation management team, working in partnership with them to help the team meet expected business outcomes.
  • Create and deliver presentations to disability claims operations based on common trends within litigation or on other relevant topics.
  • Demonstrate an excellent knowledge of group insurance, disability case management strategies and risk management.
  • Consistently build strong working relationships with members of our legal services department, disability claims operations, and other stakeholders, working proactively and in partnership with them.
  • Contribute to a dynamic work environment by identifying opportunities to continuously improve processes to better meet our service excellence, quality and financial commitments to our customers.
  • Identify issues and solutions on litigated cases that require follow-up within the disability operations.
  • Contribute to the ongoing business retention and growth by building strong working relationships with our customers and by your proactive engagement with plan sponsors.
  • Help prioritize work to meet customer expectations.
  • Coach and mentor other team members as opportunities arise.

Requirements

  • Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada and worldwide.
  • Stellar customer service skills
  • Strong organizational, analytical and decision-making skills
  • Excellent listening skills and capacity for empathy
  • Ability to deal with stressful situations
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to self-reflect and demonstrate other personal characteristics that positively influence your own engagement and growth
  • Strong interpersonal and motivational skills
  • Demonstrated ability to adapt to change
  • Ability to understand and explain new concepts to successfully transfer knowledge and promote both engagement and implementation
  • Strong ability to objectively review information taking into consideration all aspects of files/situations
  • Strong ability to work collaboratively with others
  • Demonstrated ability to negotiate
  • Ability to travel (valid driver’s license and access to vehicle are required for travel)
  • Excellent knowledge of disability case management strategies
  • Strong computer skills and Microsoft Office knowledge
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience.
  • At least 5 years of recent disability case management experience.
  • Some knowledge of litigation case management strategies.
  • Strong negotiation skills.

Benefits

  • Access to short-term assignments or ‘Gigs’ across the organization, to help you develop new skills and connections.
  • Charitable giving through our You Give, We Give program lets you give back to your community – and in many cases, we’ll match your contributions.
  • Care Days available for self-care or care of others (i.e., family or others you may support) and Sick Days to support your well-being.

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$80,000 - CA$128,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridMontrealCanada

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