Recoveries Litigator

2 weeks ago


Bolton, United Kingdom Keoghs Full time

The department deal with pursuing subrogated recoveries on behalf of a number of insurer clients. This is a new role in our litigation team. The purpose of the role is to effectively manage a portfolio of Delegated (DA) litigated cases to review and submit to the Court in terms of litigation.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Organising, prioritising and handling own workload in line with standard operating procedures to ensure that critical dates are met and KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved.
- Effective management of the litigation process to ensure KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved:

- Adhering to all Court deadlines
- Drafting of court documents
- Liaising with the policyholder including drafting
- Effective use of the case management system to ensure:

- Reserving and all other key information is accurate and updated in a timely manner.
- Critical dates are met
- All actions/strategies are documented by way of a file note
- All documents in the history are clearly labelled.
- Delivering quality work, as a minimum meeting audit benchmark standards.
- Driving own personal development.
- Contributes to team effort by working collaboratively to ensure that team targets are achieved and by positively contributing to team morale.
Working Hours
35 hours per week
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch.
Primary location for this role is Parklands Bolton. This role is hybrid working 1 day in the office and 4 days from home.

**Experience, Skills and Qualifications**
- Experience of working in a legal environment.
- Preferably experience of quantum negotiations.
- Demonstrate experience of and the ability to:

- Work to set deadlines
- Deal with calls and enquiries from customers, suppliers and/or the public
- Organise and prioritise their workload
- Work as part of a team
- IT literate: proficient in use of Microsoft Office packages (Excel and Word)
- Excellent listening and verbal communication skills
- Ability to remain calm under pressure
- Ability to take constructive feedback and set personal goals for continuous improvement.

Values
Our culture is focused on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do;
We are connected
We are Dynamic
We are Innovative
We succeed together

**Contract Type**
- Permanent

**Area**
- Credit Hire and Recoveries

**Sub Area**
- Recoveries Bolton

**Office**
- Bolton - Parklands

**Closing Date**
- 01 Dec 2023


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