Personal Injury Team Lead

We build financial products that accelerate the economic freedom for people who move across borders. We started with car insurance — insuring over a million drivers — and we’re scaling beyond. Tens of millions of people move countries each year, facing overlooked financial challenges. Our future is in building financial products around their needs to positively impact their lives.

We’re really proud of the culture we’ve created. We push for progress every day, because we know that we’ll only hit big milestones by taking lots of smaller steps. We’re always open to helping our team mates, sharing our ideas, experience and knowledge to solve problems together. We take risks, think creatively and experiment relentlessly to meet our customer’s needs, and never pass blame when things go wrong. We encourage people at all levels to take ownership of their work, and to be bold in challenging how we do things. Everyone has a voice and the opportunity to make an impact.
And autonomy and ownership are only possible with clear direction. That’s why we collaborate to do in-depth planning twice a year, and make sure we leave with clear goals and objectives that flow from top to bottom. To make sure we’re as aligned as possible across functions, most of our work rolls up into three tribes; Acquisition, Retention & Claims. Each tribe has multiple teams embedded in it, working cross-functionally to do great work.
We’re so excited for all of the challenges up ahead, and we need more people to help us tackle them! If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our Culture Handbook to find out more.

We believe that the claims experience can be so much better in the insurance industry! So, our mission is to deliver the most delightful and efficient claims experience to our customers.

We're looking for a Personal Injury Lead to be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of a growing team of executives, developing our case handling function and focusing on owning our customer journey. 

Working in a startup means that you have to be adaptable and are excited by the prospect of moving fast. This is an opportunity to collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, underwriters and our operations team to set us up for success. Building strong working relationships is important, to ensure that together with our partners we deliver excellent customer service 24/7, 365 days a year.

• Managing the day-to-day operations of our Non-Portal Team, including IMT claims, ensuring we are on track to hit KPIs and OKRs

• The team consists of handlers managing both injury and hire IMT claims

• Supporting, monitoring and reviewing motor claims processed in house or by our third-party providers.

• Reviewing claims processes and recommending changes. You'll also be conducting quality assurance audits and highlighting missed opportunities, leakage and areas for improvement

• Managing and coaching claims team members, and supporting them in the development of their knowledge and skills

• Working with others across the business to set up and maintain performance reporting/metrics

• Working and owning on operational and strategic projects

• Presenting and explaining statistical management information to the business

• Ensuring that your team achieves quality outcomes for customers 

• Creating the time, space and confidence for your team to go above and beyond in handling their Personal Injury cases

• You truly care about supporting and developing the people you manage

• You enjoy problem-solving and creating innovative solutions to complex problems

• You are highly adaptable to change

• You are able to translate your vision to the team ensuring buy-in and engagement

• You are confident in having challenging conversations and are keen to give and receive feedback

• Previous experience of managing a high performing Personal Injury Team

• Thorough technical knowledge of motor claims Personal Injury processes (essential) and Litigation/CPR processes (essential), including most recent and appropriate case law (desirable)

• Numerical mindset; able to interpret data and use it to influence key decisions

• Market knowledge; able to use insights to preempt and mitigate potential challenges

• Confidence in presenting findings and proposals to key stakeholders

• Previous experience of project / strategic change management would also be beneficial 

• You have a proven ability to think strategically but are also able to get deep into the detail

• Clear communication to convey updates to a varied and wide audience on complex injury cases and overall performance of strategic goals. 

• Hybrid working: Spend 1 day per fortnight with your team in our new collaborative London office

• Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend on a Ben Mastercard meaning you get your own benefits budget to spend on things you want. Whether that’s subscriptions, night classes (puppy yoga, anyone?), the big shop or a forest of houseplants. Pretty much anything goes. 💰

• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset 🤓

• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva 💚

• Equity – Get options in Marshmallow as part of your offer, and have a real stake in the company’s success 📈

• Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches 🏥

• Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental, optical and physio (plus more!)

• Tech scheme - Get the latest tech for less 🖥

• Plus all the rest; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, cycle to work scheme, monthly team socials and company-wide socials every month!

• We break it up into 3 stages:

  • A Video screen with a member of our Talent Acquisition Team (30 mins)

  • A Technical interview where we will discuss your previous experience with two leads from our Third Party Claims teams. (1 hour)

  • A Cultural interview with another senior member of the business (1 hour)

We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application

To meet our regulatory obligations as an FCA-authorised financial services company, we need to do some background checks on all new hires. That means carrying out a DBS check and making sure you don't have any live criminal proceedings. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.

We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.

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