Claims Manager - Workers Compensation | Milwaukee, WI area

Insurance Placement Solutions has an immediate opening for a Workers Compensation Claims Manager with our client in their Milwaukee, WI area location. As a manager of our client’s claims team, you will be responsible for overseeing claims team members and their daily operations, including performance and development. Utilizing your knowledge of workers compensation and supervision to oversee a team that independently investigates, evaluates and resolves assigned claims in order to achieve appropriate outcomes.

Workers Compensation Claims Manager Responsibilities

• Supervise a unit comprised of claims examiners that handle claims with varying degrees of complexity
• Directs policies and procedures to ensure claims handling is consistent with company’s best practices, in addition to all legal and regulatory requirements
• Maintain an efficient claims staff to handle all claims promptly and fairly
• Provide guidance with claim negotiations and extend settlement authority to claims examiners, as necessary
• Develop and train direct reports to optimize individual growth, development and success
• Provide supervisors and employees with performance objectives, and monitor their progress during the year by reviewing timeliness of first contacts and closings, productivity, and quality
• Monitors staff production and performance in order to meet corporate performance goals; provides ongoing coaching and feedback to staff
• Monitor compliance with state fair claims practices acts

Experience

• 5+ years prior Workers Compensation experience, including prior supervisory experience

Education

• High school diploma required
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Casual, flexible work environment
• Paid time off
• Medical (with Health Savings account), Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance
• 401K plan with company match after 6 months, as well as, profit sharing

About Insurance Placement Solutions

IPS is an insurance staffing and recruiting firm dedicated to the insurance industry, including workers compensation claims jobs in the Milwaukee, WI area. Our services are designed to be a resource for clients to gain access to high caliber talent. Many of our clients do not have the dedicated manpower to quickly fill their temporary, temporary to hire or direct hire vacancies. That is where we come in. Our clients are able to utilize our services to maintain business-as-usual during unforeseen interruptions and fluctuating business needs. Plus, our candidates benefit from gaining backdoor access to highly sought after positions with top companies in the industry.