Chief Complaints Manager

22 hours ago


StokeonTrent, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom Davies Full time
Job Summary:
A highly skilled Chief Complaints Manager is required to join our team at Davies in Stoke, UK. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the Customer Relations department, ensuring seamless service delivery in line with client and regulatory requirements.

About Us:
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm working in partnership with leading insurance and global businesses. Our team of over 6,500 professionals operates across ten countries, including the UK and the US. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.

Salary: £65,000 - £80,000 per annum (depending on experience), plus benefits.

Key Responsibilities:
- Management of team of Complaint and Admin handlers, including personal and professional development, objective setting, structured performance reviews and support.
- Leadership of a motivated team of individuals, nurturing technical expertise with a customer-centric approach.
- Ownership and oversight of internal and client MI, ensuring accuracy of data before issue.
- Delivery of key service metrics, with a particular focus on complaints mitigation, lifecycle, regulatory milestones, and team compliance to process.
- Responsible for the customer care philosophy across all lines of claims, including property, niche, casualty, and motor.
- Review and sign-off of all compensation awards – taking into consideration client philosophy and regulatory guidance.
- Working towards agreed budgeted revenue and costs, constructing and effectively managing team budgets.
- Manage change within the department through system, process changes and client improvement plans.
- Encouraging an approach to complaints management centred around customer experience, ensuring best practice in-team, but also in root cause analysis and feedback to Claims teams.
- Regular attendance at client-facing meetings and facilitation of external audit meetings.
- Monitor the unit's team performance against the agreed Client service level, internal key performance indicators, and agreed operational business objectives.

Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years high volume complaints management experience.
- Minimum 5 years people management experience.
- Understanding of FCA, FOS, and Lloyds complaints processes.
- Strong user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and capable of producing reports and data analysis.
- The confidence to act with autonomy, understanding and resolving issues presented by clients and the wider business.
- An ability to understand the needs of our clients and a desire to work towards continuously improving our delivery of those.
- Understanding of all regulatory issues (people, FSA, Data Protection, TCF, Consumer Duty etc).
- Proven ability to work with senior management, claims/legal professionals, other insurers, brokers, affiliated companies, and clients.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.
- Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
- Ability to work to deadlines while prioritizing workload and multi-tasking.
- A positive can-do approach to problem-solving is a must.

Benefits:
The salary mentioned above is negotiable based on the candidate's qualifications and experience. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits, including:
- Career and purpose: leadership training program, funding for professional qualifications, Davies Innovation Lab, Thrive at Davies learning opportunities.
- Environmental and social: employee resource groups, employee volunteering program, Pennies To Heaven, local charity funding, and The Davies Foundation.
- Financial health: pension scheme with 10% employer contribution, My Choices at Davies provides High Street discounts and financial wellbeing hub, life assurance, refer-a-friend, cycle to work scheme, lease car salary sacrifice, and enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay.
- Mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing: wellbeing centre, 25 days holiday increasing to 26 after 5 years and 27 after 10 years, flexible working, inclusive employment policies, dress for your day, flexible benefits including holiday purchase plan and opportunity to purchase health cash plan and BUPA dental plan.

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