# Workers Compensation Team Lead

**Company**: Sedgwick
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $67,847.00 - $100,000 CAD annually
**Category**: Insurance
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected.

As a Workers Compensation Team Lead, you will supervise multiple teams of examiners and technical staff for workers compensation claims, monitor colleagues' workloads, provide training, and monitor individual claim activities.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Supervise multiple teams of examiners, multiple product line examiners, and/or several technical operations colleagues

- Identify and advise management of trends, problems, and issues, and recommend courses of action

- Provide technical/jurisdictional direction to examiner reports on claims adjudication

- Compile, review, and analyze management reports, and take appropriate action

- Perform quality reviews on claims in compliance with audit requirements, service contract requirements, and quality standards

- Act as a second level of appeal for client and claimant issues regarding claim-specific, procedural, or special requests

- Review reserve amounts on high-cost claims and claims over the authority of the individual examiner

- Monitor third-party claims, and maintain periodical reviews of litigated claims, serious vocational rehabilitation claims, questionable claims, and sensitive claims

- Maintain contact with clients on claims, and promote a professional client relationship

- Ensure that direct reports are properly licensed in the jurisdictions serviced

- Ensure claims files are coded correctly, and adequate documentation is made by claims examiners

**Additional Responsibilities:**

- Perform other duties as assigned

- Support the organisation's quality program(s)

- Administer company personnel policies, and follow company staffing standards and training recommendations

- Interview, hire, and establish colleague performance development plans

- Conduct colleague performance discussions

- Provide support, guidance, leadership, and motivation to promote maximum performance

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred

- Licenses as required

- Professional certifications as applicable to line of business preferred

- Six years of claims experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required, including two years of claims supervisor experience

**Skills and Knowledge:**

- Thorough knowledge of claims management processes and procedures for multiple product lines

- Excellent oral and written communication, including presentation skills

- PC literate, including Microsoft Office products

- Leadership/management/motivational skills

- Analytical and interpretive skills

- Strong organisational skills

- Excellent interpersonal skills

- Excellent negotiation skills

- Ability to work in a team environment

- Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies

## Skills

### Required
- claims management
- leadership
- communication
- analytical skills
- organisational skills
- interpersonal skills
- negotiation skills

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