Claims Manager

Looking to step into a leadership role where you can own team performance, influence client outcomes, and drive real financial impact? Join Strata Solicitors, where you'll lead a high performing motor recovery team responsible for recovering our clients' losses, directly impacting financial outcomes. Based in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, this role provides an exciting opportunity to coach and develop our claims handlers to deliver exceptional service.

At Strata Solicitors, we pride ourselves on being proactive, detail oriented professionals who are dedicated to supporting each other's growth and achieving shared success.

In this role, you'll take ownership of the day to day management of a corporate client motor recovery team. You'll work closely with the management teams to deliver exceptional client service and achieve key targets.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and mentoring a team of claims handlers, ensuring they meet client service level agreements and key performance indicators.
• Acting as the key link between claims handlers and the management teams, ensuring smooth communication and alignment.
• Overseeing the documentation of recovery procedures and preparing for client service reviews.
• Monitoring team performance, providing training, and addressing any issues in a fair and timely manner.
• Managing high profile or contentious cases, ensuring quality standards are met and client outcomes are optimised.
• Supporting financial targets by controlling the claim lifecycle and assisting with aged debt recovery.

• Experience in motor claims handling within a legal, insurance, or claims management environment, including pre litigated claims.
• Team management and people responsibility experience within a similar setting.
• Proven experience working directly with clients, including hosting client meetings.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and guide a team to achieve high performance.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines.
• A proactive and pragmatic approach, with the ability to think critically and solve problems effectively.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to build credibility and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• A flexible and adaptable mindset, with a willingness to accommodate unexpected situations.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Minimum core benefits you'll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to 'buy' extra days.
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to.
• Life insurance, which will pay 4 your basic annual salary, which you can top up to 10 .
• Income protection, we'll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up.
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance.

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year.
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount.
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan.
• Critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally.
• Season ticket loan.
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase.
• Emergency back up family care.
• And many more.

We value inclusion and diversity. Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it's embedded into the fabric of our organisation. Gallagher embraces our employees' diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities.

Gallagher is Disability Confident and committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, and if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. If you would like reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with T A Global Support at TA Global . If you'd prefer to speak on the phone, please request a callback, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age and caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, colour, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.