Senior Claims Handler (m/f/d)

Professional

Wallisellen, CH, 8304

Customer Services & Claims

Allianz Commercial

Allianz Risk Transfer

Full-Time

Hybrid working

Permanent

55429

Non-Executive

Senior Claims Handler (m/f/d)

Let’s care for tomorrow.

Your ambitions. Your dreams. Your tomorrow

Whether it’s aircraft, international business, offshore wind parks, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.

We are looking for a Senior Claims Handler (m/f/d), based in Wallisellen near Zurich.

Your Team

If you are seeking an opportunity to contribute to a reputable organization, work in a collaborative environment and deliver excellent customer service, we would love to hear from you. We offer a hybrid work environment, along with opportunities for professional growth in Claims Handling. Our LargeCorp Liability & Financial Lines (including Cyber) Claims team is committed to be the benchmark and strives to deliver a highly professional claim handling experience.

The Impact You Will Have

Reporting to the Claims Team Leader in Siwtzerland and Teamleader for Liability and Financial Lines in Germany (Matrix), you will work closely with the German and Swiss claims teams as well as global colleagues. Your responsibilities will include proactively handling of national and international Liability and Financial Lines claims from our industrial clients, creating, and maintaining peer level relationships with brokers and collaborating with other departments to ensure a high-quality claims experience. You will manage a portfolio of clients and be the main entry point for all their claims. At the same time you are working in close collaboration with your colleagues to manage the portfolio as a whole.

Some of your specific responsibilities could include:

• Handling of national and international Liability and Financiaal Lines claims of industrial customers, ensuring cost effective, service-oriented solutions.
• Actively evaluate and address coverage and liability issues, determine appropriate reserving levels and manage litigation if appropriate and necessary.
• Manage relationships with clients, brokers, and loss adjusters.
• Ensure accurate and timely internal and external loss reporting.
• Work with other teams such as Underwriting and Operations and contribute with your claims handling expertise.
• Support the development of the claims strategy to ensure profitable growth and a strong market position.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

• You have professional experience in claims handling, ideally with a focus on all casualty lines (Liability and/or Financial Lines).
• You have a professional qualification in insurance with professional experience or a degree in a topic related to insurance, a law degree (lic. iur. or LLM) is welcome.
• You have a good knowledge of insurance, contract and liability law.
• You speak fluent German and English at a business level. Basic knowledge in a third language is welcome as well.
• You are a collaborative and positive team player with excellent communication skills.

55429 | Customer Services & Claims | Professional | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | Permanent

What’s in it for you?

Let’s care about everything that makes you, you

We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. We offer a hybrid working model, which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working. Please feel free to discuss flexible working arrangements with us.

Let’s care for your financial wellbeing

We believe in rewarding performance with a great compensation and benefits package (details vary by location), including a generous bonus scheme and pension.

Let’s care for your opportunities to progress

From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.

Let’s care for life’s twists and turns

From our support for flexible working, health and wellbeing (including private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits), to helping people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach. We've got your back.

Let’s care for our society and our planet

With opportunities to be engaged in shaping a future that is safe, inclusive and sustainable, we care for the tomorrows of our people, our industry and our clients.

Care to join us?

Allianz Commercial is the Allianz Group brand serving the world’s largest consumer brands and major industry players through to family-owned enterprises forming the backbone of nations’ economies. We bring together the corporate multinational business of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and the commercial business of national Allianz Property & Casualty entities and provide both traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and Multinational services as well as seamless claims handling.

As a key strategic player in the Allianz Group network, Allianz Commercial is present in over 200 countries and in 2022 generated more than €19 billion gross premium.

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Allianz is an equal opportunity employer, and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. Diversity of thinking is an important part of our culture.

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