Property Claims Handler

**Introduction**

Indulge your passion for problem-solving and embrace the thrill of addressing risk head-on at Gallagher's global brokerage team. Join a family of diverse minds, united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. As part of our team, you'll be the architect of protection, safeguarding businesses and empowering their ambitions. Together, we'll build a legacy of trust and triumph in the dynamic world of risk management.

**Overview**

We are recruiting for a dedicated Claims Handler to join our Gallagher Retail Commercial Broking Division within our Property Claims team, based in Chichester.

In this role, you will work directly with our Real Estate clients and our suppliers, providing high-quality, professional advice on claims issues from start to finish.

**How you'll make an impact**
- Manage a caseload of Property claims on a delegated authority basis from start to finish
- Advise and update clients on relevant events and discussions throughout their claim, ensuring complete customer satisfaction during potentially stressful times
- Regularly assess the status of claims with clients, insurers, and/or their advisors/solicitors, providing updates and informing them of any additional information acquired during the claims process
- Offer appropriate technical advice to clients throughout the duration of the claim
- Encourage, show compassion, and effectively manage client expectations
- Continuously develop and maintain your knowledge of the market, insurance, legislation, and other technical areas
- Run claims efficiently and keep the system updated with all relevant information
- Ensure that claims statistics are accurate and produced in accordance with SLAs

**About You**
- Ambitious to learn a technical insurance role and develop a career in the insurance industry
- Previous experience within the insurance industry from different claims areas would be considered
- Strong client service drive, along with forward planning and analytical skills
- Exceptional communication skills, task-focused, and keen to develop your career
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to show initiative when assisting team members
- Eligible to work in the UK

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**Compensation and benefits**
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the **minimum core benefits** you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

**Other benefits include**:

- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more

**We value inclusion and diversity**

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discriminatio