Property Claims Leader - Field Adjusting

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Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

At Aviva Canada, we put people first, our employees, our customers, and our communities. We’re proud of a culture built on care, inclusion, and collaboration, where your voice matters and your growth is supported. We’re not just about insurance; we’re about making a real difference by protecting what matters most.

Our Property Claims team is looking for Property Leader (Hybrid) to join their Field team!

In this role, the Claims Leader will build an environment for people to do the best work of their lives & build a stronger team by developing employee’s potential in their current role and for future career aspirations. The Claims Leader will also identify and collaborate with various team members to improve system conditions to impact the service for our customers, the environment for our people and our financial performance.

The successful candidate will communicate effectively with confidence, curiosity, courage and in a collaborative manner creating a clear vision of the outcomes we require and how our people will contribute to achieve those.

This is a hybrid role and requires flexible working hours which may include weekend and after hours work based on business needs such as catastrophe events.

People manager & architect:

• Identify, assess and retain the best possible talent to strengthen our business
• Understand and know our people, support training and develop their capability in the role and work with them to support career aspirations while manage performance
• Have honest, constructive conversations with our people, set clear direction and goals giving frequent, honest, clear and constructive feedback to improve their performance and achieve the business goals.
• Lead effectively and positively through implementation of change.
• Understand and apply risk management controls proportionately
• Ensure technical development of claims file handlers
• Complete ride along inspections with your people to develop their technical acumen and work on superior scoping skills and look for opportunities to improve the customer experience

• Create an environment dedicated to exceptional customer outcomes and champion the improvement to service
• Use data to understand how our people and the business unit are performing and initiate improvement activity through to execution.
• Customer demand analysis – assist in identifying the root cause of “waste and failure” in the business unit
• Be “in the work” to understand our people’s capability, our unit’s performance.
• Make decisions using data; observe the environment to identify performance blockers/barriers. Use the data, insight and expertise of the frontline to determine how we improve our overall performance, results and the customer’s journey.
• Participate in the Quality assurance programme for your team. Identify and ensure training is addressed in a timely and effective manner.
• Fully understand and mitigate internal and external claims risks you are accountable for managing, meet our compliance obligations and measure how our team meet those requirements
• Take full responsibility for the results of our team, how they contribute to the overall companies performance and understand the consequence and impact of key decisions you make

• Clearly articulate and effectively communicate the link between our purpose, our strategy, our commitment and our culture
• Expert understanding of the claims experience while understanding the technical strategic direction for the claims file
• Look for new and incremental ways to improve things every day for the customer
• Clear understanding of financial elements of our claims function to ensure we remain financially strong and deliver year on year improvement in our business performance
• Maintain the accuracy and integrity of the financial information captured in Aviva systems
• Identify and report on any suspicions of fraud or financial irregularities in line with existing Aviva…