Claims Optimization Program Manager

Overview:

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Claims Optimization Program Manager. This role is responsible for overseeing and improving the processes within our property claims organization. The focus is on optimizing claims management procedures for efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. This role involves collaboration with various teams and stakeholders to ensure that the claims process meets organizational goals and standards.

What you’d be doing:

• Identify and document business requirements for the claims management process.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Continuously evaluate and optimize the performance of the claims management process.
• Implement best practices to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Establish and enforce quality standards for claims management, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and organizational policies.
• Collaborate with claims adjusters, evaluators, and other stakeholders to streamline and improve the claim segmentation workflow.
• Develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the performance of the estimating platform and claim evaluation processes.
• Generate regular reports for senior management, highlighting achievements, challenges, and areas for improvement.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement within the claims management procedures.
• Develop and implement strategies to enhance productivity and reduce turnaround times.
• Develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the performance of the claims management process.
• Generate regular reports for senior management, highlighting achievements, challenges, and areas for improvement.
• Lead and manage specific segments of the property claims process.
• Assist in creating training material for claims adjusters and other stakeholders to ensure effective utilization of claims management systems and adherence to quality standards.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree or certifications a plus.
• 7 – 10 years proven experience in program management and claims adjusting, specifically with property claims.
• Strong understanding of best practices and data associated with claims management process outcomes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize processes for increased efficiency and accuracy.
• Able to perform work with limited supervision, while possessing the ability to effectively prioritize and manage daily workflow and project assignments to meet specified deadlines.

About the Claims team at SageSure: 

On SageSure’s Claims team, you’ll be doing more than investigating and resolving losses. From the ground up, you’ll be pioneering a best-in-class claims handling approach that leverages transformative technology to support our customers, agents and employees. As a part of this customer-focused, process-oriented team you will be the face of SageSure, helping our policyholders through some of their most trying times. Whether you hold a formal leadership role or are a key team player, you’ll coach, mentor and engage with those around you in ways that bring out the best in people and effect change.  

You can easily distill complex processes in ways those outside the industry can understand and know the importance of aligning communication tools to customer preferences.  You thrive on setting and exceeding expectations, and know building relationships, not completing transactions, is the heart of the insurance business. 

About SageSure:
 
Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed markets in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail. Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 50 competitively priced home, flood, earthquake, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $1.9 billion of inforce premium and helps protect 640,000 policyholders. 
 
SageSure has more than 1000 employees working remotely or in-office across nine offices: Cheshire, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Cin