About the Role
The Managing Director Strategic Claim Oversight leads the Severity & Excess Accounts team, overseeing the highest exposure claims in Healthcare. This role ensures effective claims handling practices, drives operational initiatives, and maintains overall quality, customer service, and productivity.
Responsibilities
- Leads and directs the work activities and has full management responsibility for the performance of the Severity Team.
- Exercises full management authority, including performance reviews, pay decisions, recruitment, discipline, termination and other personnel actions.
- Oversees the most complex investigations of claims, liability and damages and determines claim strategy, including if claim should be settled or litigated.
- Develops and directs the execution of the litigation management strategy.
- Develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with internal and external business partners including Operations, Underwriting, Actuary and Risk Control.
- Regularly shares claims outcomes, trends, legal developments and other relevant business updates.
- Responsible for the ongoing management of staff by attracting talent, setting clear direction, providing appropriate guidance, managing performance, recognizing contributions, and developing capabilities.
- Ensures quality by assuring compliance with best practices, and developing and delivering training as needed.
- May perform additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Senior level knowledge of the theories, principles, practices and procedures of claim and litigation management within an insurance organization.
- Excellent technical and product specific expertise, claims resolution skill and knowledge of insurance and claims principles, practices and procedures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent negotiation, consultative and facilitation skills with the ability to effectively interact with all internal and external business partners.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment, and to work with and maintain confidential and sensitive information.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and senior level skill in managing ambiguous situations and issues.
- Creativity in resolving unique and challenging business problems.
- Proven ability to take a proactive long-term view of business goals and objectives in order to achieve strategic business results.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and other business-related software.
- Value driven to provide superior solutions to internal and/or external customers.
- Acts with a sense of urgency to advance priorities of the organization.
- Helps other to excel through collaboration and building strong relationships.
- Raises expectations of itself and others by continuously learning and broadening industry and technical skills.
- Strong management skills with the ability to coach, mentor and develop subordinate staff.
- Independent judgment and ability to effectively manage internal and external business relationships.
Skills
- Claim and litigation management
- Technical and product specific expertise
- Claims resolution
- Insurance and claims principles, practices and procedures
- Verbal and written communication
- Presentation skills
- Negotiation
- Consultative skills
- Facilitation skills
- Independent judgment
- Confidential and sensitive information management
- Analytical skills
- Problem solving
- Managing ambiguous situations
- Microsoft Office Suite
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior level
- Minimum of ten years of claims or legal experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- JD preferred
- Admission to the bar of at least one state preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $97,000 to $189,000 annually
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package
About the Company
- At CNA, we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important, ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential.
- CNA utilizes AI-enabled technology during the recruiting process.
- CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process.
