Manager - Insurance Operations

Placement Operations Delivery

• Oversee placement support activities, including coordination, market follow-ups, tracking, documentation management, status reporting, and handoffs to support placement timelines.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex or urgent cases, market coordination issues, documentation gaps, and high-impact client matters.
• Ensure P&C, Specialty, wholesale, and reinsurance-related operational requirements are understood and embedded in workflows, controls, and documentation practices.

Policy Servicing Delivery

• Lead end-to-end policy administration support, including issuance, endorsements, renewals, cancellations, certificates, billing support, documentation, and related servicing activities.
• Ensure policy records, transactions, and supporting documentation are accurate, complete, timely, and aligned with agreed procedures and client requirements.
• Partner with brokers, insurers, clients, Client Management, Finance, Compliance, and other internal teams to resolve servicing issues and maintain smooth policy lifecycle delivery.

Controls, Governance & Risk

• Ensure adherence to internal policies, operational controls, governance requirements, and applicable Philippine and regional regulatory obligations.
• Maintain current SOPs, control checklists, quality standards, and audit-ready documentation; support audits and reviews and drive closure of findings.
• Identify operational risks, recurring defects, and control gaps, implementing sustainable preventive actions rather than one-time corrective fixes.

Stakeholder Partnership & Service Management

• Align with local and Asia BCS leadership, Broking/Placement, Client Management, Finance, Compliance, Technology, insurers, and other stakeholders on service expectations and priorities.
• Provide transparent reporting on SLA achievement, backlog, turnaround time, productivity, quality, root causes, escalations, and remediation plans.
• Establish clear requirements for inputs, timelines, handoffs, escalation routes, and what good service delivery looks like.

Continuous Improvement & Systems Enablement

• Lead process improvement, standardization, automation, and workflow optimization initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Champion effective use of operational systems, including data quality, process adoption, training, user acceptance testing, and change readiness.
• Use performance data and root-cause analysis to reduce errors, rework, delays, and unnecessary escalations across placement and servicing activities.

Success Measures

• SLA and turnaround-time achievement, healthy backlog, and reliable delivery against placement and policy servicing milestones.
• Quality outcomes, including documentation accuracy, transaction accuracy, reduced error and rework rates, and improved first-time-right performance.
• Risk and control outcomes, including control compliance, audit-readiness, closure of findings, and improvement in incident trends.
• Stakeholder and client satisfaction, effective handoffs, timely escalation resolution, and fewer repeat issues.
• People outcomes, including team engagement, capability development, productivity, succession readiness, and effective capacity management.
• Quantified process improvements through standardization, automation, data discipline, or improved system adoption.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Significant experience in insurance operations, broking operations, placement support, policy servicing, or policy administration.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including performance management, coaching, capacity planning, and delivery oversight.
• Solid understanding of the insurance policy lifecycle and placement processes, including P&C and Specialty products; reinsurance or wholesale experience is an advantage.
• Working knowledge of operational controls, governance, documentation standards, and regulatory requirements relevant to the Philippines and regional delivery models.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and resolve complex issues in a fast-paced, service-focused environment.
• Experience driving process improvement, system adoption, data quality, automation, or change initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in insurance, business, operations, or a related discipline.

Key Competencies

• Execution and delivery leadership
• People leadership and coaching
• Stakeholder management and structured communication
• Escalation handling and sound judgment
• Data-driven problem solving and root-cause analysis
• Risk mindset and control discipline
• Change leadership and continuous improvement
• Attention to detail with a strong client-service orientation

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