The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced claims leader to lead the strategy, governance, and performance of our third-party administrator (TPA) claim programs across multiple products, business segments, and jurisdictions. This is a highly visible leadership role with responsibility for ensuring our TPA partners deliver fair, timely, accurate, and compliant claim outcomes while meeting our expectations for customer experience, financial performance, and operational quality.

You will serve as the senior business owner for key TPA relationships, lead a team of claims and vendor oversight professionals, partner closely with senior leaders across the organization, and influence how we manage outsourced claims operations at an enterprise level.

This role is ideal for a strategic P&C claims leader who knows how to balance technical claims expertise, vendor accountability, financial discipline, and strong relationships to drive results.

What You'll Do

• Lead TPA strategy and governance
• Own TPA performance and relationships
• Provide senior claims leadership
• Lead and develop a high-performing team
• Drive enterprise partnership and improvement
• Manage financial performance

What You'll Bring

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 10+ years of claims or related P&C insurance experience, including experience with TPA, vendor, program, or outsourced claims oversight.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience, including leading managers or multiple teams.
• Adjuster licenses for applicable states, with the ability to obtain and maintain additional licenses as needed.
• Deep knowledge of claim investigation, policy interpretation, coverage analysis, reserving, litigation management, settlement practices, fraud indicators, regulatory requirements, and claims financial controls.
• Demonstrated experience establishing governance models, service levels, vendor performance standards, claims audit programs, and corrective action plans.
• Experience interpreting and negotiating contracts, statements of work, authority levels, fee structures, reporting obligations, and governance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior internal stakeholders and external business partners and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Experience managing budgets and using operational and financial data to identify trends, determine root causes, and drive measurable action plans.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, relationship management, and change leadership skills.

We'd Especially Like to See

• Bachelor's degree in business, insurance, risk management, finance, or a related field.
• Experience leading multiple TPAs, outsourced claim programs, complex vendor relationships, or multi-state claims operations.
• Experience with procurement, contract negotiation, vendor risk management, implementations, conversions, or TPA transitions.
• Professional insurance designation such as AIC, CPCU, or SCLA.
• Experience with claims analytics, dashboards, quality assurance programs, process improvement, or enterprise change initiatives.
• Experience presenting to senior and executive leadership and contributing to broader claims strategy.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means building a TPA operating model that delivers:

• Consistent, high-quality claim outcomes
• Strong regulatory and contractual compliance
• Improved cycle time and customer experience
• Appropriate reserves and settlement outcomes
• Reduced leakage and unnecessary expense
• Clear accountability across TPA partners
• Strong visibility into performance, risk, and financial results
• Continuous improvement in claims controls, technology, and operational effectiveness

Work Environment & Travel

This role operates in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment and involves managing multiple external partners, competing priorities, confidential claim information, and significant financial and operational accountability. Travel may be required for TPA site visits, business reviews, audits, implementation meetings, and leadership sessions. Occasional schedule flexibility may also be necessary to support urgent claims issues, catastrophe events, regulatory deadlines, or other critical operational needs.

Pay Range:

$103,800.00 - $173,300.00

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date listed then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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Company Overview

Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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