Third Party Claims – Credit Hire Advisor
Do you have fantastic people skills? Do you possess strong skills in both written and verbal communication? Can you deliver a great customer experience?
Working Hours/ Shift Patterns: You will work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:00.
Training: Our fantastic Leicester office, which is in the city centre and only a short walk from the train station.
Our approach to Hybrid Working: With hybrid working, you have more flexibility, as you usually only have to visit our office once a week and work remotely for the rest of the time. You can always opt to work from the office more frequently if that suits you better. When we organise training and events you may be required to attend in person for the duration.
Salary: The starting salary is £28,800 plus benefits
Location: The core training lasts for the first 8 weeks of your role and is completed virtually.
At Hastings Direct, we have a simple ambition – to be the best and biggest digital insurance provider in the UK. Our customer teams communicate with thousands of customers daily through various channels and delivering the high-quality insurance service they deserve.
Your role:
As a Credit Hire Claims Handler, you'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of credit hire claims. You'll take full ownership of the claim from first notification of the hire claim until it has been settled, whilst delivering the best financial outcome in line with our business strategy.
You'll need to accurately identify the correct liability status, indemnity position and manage and control hire spends through negotiation, investigation and provision of services.
What will you be doing?
What are we looking for?
What we offer:
Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. So, we focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community.
As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need. That includes initial in-house training on our products and systems, as well as taking live calls alongside an experienced colleague, and regular, on-going training tailored to your individual needs. Not to mention plenty of recognition and rewards, and the scope to voice your ideas and put them into practice. And the chance to develop your career across our business, with opportunities for secondments, or to become a coach.
Benefits you’ll receive:
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive – what this means to you is if you’re applying for a job with us, you’ll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. For this position, we’re regrettably unable to accept applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) due to the extremely high volumes of applications we receive. However, what we put in place for these positions instead in order to remove barriers is an opportunity for all candidates to complete first stage assessments, in the form of some online exercises, which we can also provide adjustments for on a case by case basis. For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers site.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made throughout the assessment process you should contact the recruitment team at recruitmentteam@hastingsdirect.com prior to starting any assessments, in order that adjustments can be considered.
Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.
At Hastings Direct, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us. Our recruitment team is here to provide the support you need to ensure a fair and accessible experience for all.
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Hastings Group is a fast growing, agile, digitally focused general insurance provider providing services to the UK car, van, bike and home insurance market. Big enough to compete but small enough to grow, the Group has strong relationships with all major price comparison websites, a cost effective digital marketing model and a focus on customer retention.
Hastings provides refreshingly straightforward products and services to UK car, bike, van and home insurance customers.
A multi-award winning business, Hastings has over 2.7 million customers and over 3,400 colleagues.
The Group operates as an integrated insurance provider with two businesses. The Group’s Retail business, Hastings Insurance Services Limited, is responsible for the end customer pricing, fraud management, product design, distribution and management of the underlying customer relationships. The Group’s Underwriting business, Advantage Insurance Company Limited, engages in risk selection, underlying technical pricing, reserving and claims handling.
Retail is supported by, and benefits from, Underwriting’s prudent approach to risk and reserving and also benefits from the Group’s panel of insurance partners who provide additional underwriting capacity. The Group’s integrated model deliberately separates underlying product manufacturing from its distribution.