CNA Financial Corporation

AVP, Claims Client Services

CNA Financial Corporation$152K — $242K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred in a related field.
  • Minimum twelve years of relevant experience, seven years in management roles.
  • In-depth knowledge of commercial insurance and risk management.
  • Exceptional strategic thinking with the ability to develop long-term operational plans.
  • Strong communication skills adept at engaging with senior business partners.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills with a focus on integrity and professionalism.
  • High-level customer service experience with a knack for identifying customer needs.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement strategic objectives to enhance claim services and promote customer retention.
  • Build and maintain profitable partnerships with major commercial clients.
  • Serve as a senior point of contact for National Brokers and Agencies, ensuring proactive communication and issue resolution.
  • Manage the Client Service organization, focusing on coaching and talent development.
  • Oversee budget for Client Services, managing expenses and resources efficiently.
  • Lead industry meetings with clients and brokers, collaborating with internal teams to meet customer needs.
  • Utilize problem-solving skills to address issues that jeopardize client renewals.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment.
  • Opportunity for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Engagement in industry events and forums to broaden knowledge.
  • Access to a strong support network of professionals.
  • Potential for involvement in strategic corporate initiatives.
Full Job Description
Officer-level leader responsible for the strategic direction, leadership, and performance of CNA’s Client Services organization, ensuring the delivery of a consistent, differentiated claims experience across enterprise product lines and business segments. Leads a national team of client-facing professionals who serve as trusted advisors to customers, underwriting partners, and distribution partners, driving service excellence, client retention, and profitable growth. Develops and maintains strong executive-level relationships with key distribution partners, brokers, and agencies across the country, serving as a visible ambassador for CNA Claims and a critical contributor to market relationships, business development, and customer retention strategies. Partners closely with underwriting, distribution, and field leadership to promote CNA’s Claim Value Proposition, support new business opportunities, and enhance renewal success. Serves as a strategic business partner to senior Claim and Field leaders, ensuring client service resources, capabilities, and strategies are aligned with enterprise priorities. Combines exceptional people leadership, organizational leadership, and relationship management skills to foster a high-performing, client-centric culture and strengthen CNA’s reputation in the marketplace. JOB DESCRIPTION: Essential Duties & Responsibilities Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines: • Contributes to the achievement of both short-and long-term business objectives by driving the development and implementation of strategic and operational objectives designed to promote CNA Claim value proposition, enhance and expand claim services, increase customer retention and positively impact the customer experience.  • Delivers distinctive value to customer by developing, building and maintaining profitable partnerships with CNA’s largest commercial casualty accounts, ensuring ongoing satisfaction with products and services and identifying opportunities to enhance service offerings that meet or exceed customer needs.  • Acts as a key point of contact both internally and externally at senior levels for National Brokers, Agencies and CNA Branch Vice Presidents by representing CNA Claims, communicating claim strategies, and initiatives, promoting product and service capabilities, establishing proactive touchpoints, ensuring timely responses and problem resolution and  gathering and sharing feedback throughout the organization.     • Leads, directs and has full management accountability for Client Service organization with an emphasis on coaching, talent development, communication, effective expense management, driving a high performance culture, and succession planning in accordance with corporate strategic direction. • Owns overall Client Services budget and is accountable for managing all expenses by selectively and actively managing all resources while efficiently delivering high quality service.  This includes financial management of claim services, including collaboration with Claim and Underwriting to develop claim fees, claim service levels, and comparing CNA’s claim fees against third-party marketplace data to optimize the impact and return of ClaimPlus. • Leads or participates in claim/ broker meetings, national meetings (i.e. RIMS), mid-term account reviews, stewardship meetings, renewals and new business offerings by collaborating and partnering with Client Service team, Marketing, Sales and Distribution, Underwriters, Brokers/Agents to understand customer needs, and package claim capabilities, customer-specific trends and industry data, into a compelling story and/or proposition for existing and prospective customers.  • Demonstrates effective complex problem solving by working with Claim management to resolve problems, client concerns, and critical issues that place a large account in jeopardy of renewal. • Collaborates with CNA Corporate Marketing to develop tools, processes and resources consistent with CNA’s Brand, to drive best practice producer engagements and that illustrate and endorse Claim capabilities and the claim value proposition to be used in Broker and Customer interactions.  • Participates in the development and communication of claim corporate or LoB strategies, goals, initiatives, products, capabilities, organization changes/issues that impact large account clients and brokers.  Serves as a point of contact for CNA to obtain feedback of our claim service and customer reaction to changes. • Raises expectations of self and others by continuously learning and broadening industry and technical knowledge, expanding competitive  intelligence and attending and/or participating  at industry events and forums May perform additional duties as assigned. Reporting Relationship Typically reports to SVP and above Skills, Knowledge & Abilities • Mastery of the commercial insurance industry and risk management marketplace and products and services • Strategic thinking skills such that individual is able to develop and execute on both a short and longer term operational plan • Advanced communication skills (including both written and verbal) and demonstrated ability to interact and communicate with all levels of external and/or internal business partners within scope of responsibility • Demonstrated ability to collaborate, and to develop and build strong partnerships both externally and internally • Strong leadership and management skills demonstrating integrity and professionalism • Ability to drive results by identifying and resolving significant problems within scope of responsibility • Extensive high level customer service experience and capability to provide superior solutions to internal and/or external customers • Ability to act with a sense of urgency to advance priorities of the organization • Creative thinking skills and ability to use diverse and innovative ideas to solve problems • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and other business-related software Education & Experience • Bachelor’s degree with Master’s preferred in a related discipline, or equivalent • Typically a minimum of twelve years of related work experience, with seven years management experience • Applicable certifications preferred #LI-Hybrid #LI-LG1

About CNA Financial Corporation

CNA Financial Corporation provides commercial property and casualty insurance products primarily in the United States. It offers professional liability coverages and risk management services to various professional firms, including architects, real estate agents, and accounting and law firms; directors and officers, employment practices, fiduciary, and fidelity coverages to small and mid-size firms, public and privately held firms, and not-for-profit organizations; and commercial property, general liability, cyber liability, umbrella, and excess liability, as well as various other property and casualty coverages for healthcare institutions, professional services firms, and other specialized industries. The company also provides warranty and service contracts for consumer goods, and extended service contracts for consumer automobiles and recreational vehicles; and accident and health, and group life insurance products. In addition, it offers management and professional liability insurance and risk management services, as well as other specialized property and casualty coverages to various healthcare organizations, including hospitals, physician groups, and nursing homes. The company markets its products through independent agents, brokers, and general underwriters to various customers, including small, medium, and large businesses; insurance companies; associations; and other industry groups. CNA Financial Corporation was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Learn more about CNA Financial Corporation
Size
5,600 employees
Market Cap
$11.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$690 million
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+4.7%
Revenue
$10.8 billion
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