Technical Claims Handler (Holman Team)

Activate Group; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading claims management company in Peterborough is searching for a Technical Claims Handler to join its hybrid team. This position involves managing vehicle claims from start to finish, making and receiving calls, and ensuring excellent customer service. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and the ability to handle a high volume of calls. Benefits include 33 days holiday, enhanced family leave, and personal health cash plan, promoting a supportive workplace.

Benefits

33 days holiday (including bank holidays)

Personal health cash plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental pay

Life assurance: three times basic salary

Free breakfasts and fruit

Birthday surprise for everybody!

Responsibilities

• Making outbound and receiving inbound calls to customers and clients.
• Manage vehicle claims end-to-end from repair instruction to completion.
• Using bespoke software and databases to maintain claim information.
• Manage own workload ensuring claims are progressing effectively.
• Provide updates to managers and customers as required.
• Ensure all SLA's are met and exceeded.

Skills

Ability to handle a high volume of calls daily

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Able to manage own time and workload

Experience of working in a target driven and fast paced environment

Experience within the insurance and claims industry

Job description

• Peterborough, GB - Hybrid (Remote and In Person)

Location: Peterborough

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, hybrid basis after the first month

Salary: From £26,074

We’re looking for a Technical Claims Handler to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

Key responsibilities

Making outbound and receiving inbound calls to and from customers, clients, 3rd parties and repairers.
• Manage vehicle claims end-to-end from repair instruction to completion and only escalating where necessary.
• Using Activate Groups bespoke software and databases to record, update and maintain information relating to each claim
• Manage own workload, prioritizing and ensuring all claims assigned are progressing and receiving a high standard of customer service
• Provide accurate updates to team managers and customers as required
• Ensure that all SLA’s are met and exceeded
• Communicate and collaborate with all parties in order to achieve an optimal repair journey.

Skills and Experience

• Ability to handle a high volume of calls daily
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to manage own time and workload
• Experience of working in a target driven and fast paced environment desirable
• Experience within the insurance and claims industry desirable
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

What we're all about

Nobody wants or expects to be in a road incident, and we know how upsetting and stressful it can be. This is why our purpose is to make someone's bad day better.

We achieve this through our values make it happen, win together, and strive for better.