Costs Negotiator
Costs negotiator:
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We're on the lookout for a passionate and skilled professional to join our growing Costs Team. This isn't just any role—it's an opportunity to make a real impact alongside a supportive and dynamic team!
Your Role:
- Negotiate Settlements: Work with the team to assess and negotiate costs matters.
- Handle Procedures: Manage all procedural aspects and pleadings until settlement.
- Provide Expert Advice: Offer costs advice to clients and main teams.
- Drive Savings: Negotiate costs to deliver client savings.
- Support Excellence: Service all costs work from our complex injury teams.
Why Join Us?
- Innovative Team: Work in a creative, collaborative environment.
- Career Growth: Enjoy professional development and advancement.
- Impactful Work: Help clients navigate complex injury costs with a dedicated team.
Ready to bring your expertise to a team that values collaboration and excellence? We want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- File Review: Analyse files, set strategies, and document insights.
- Cost Strategy: Prepare and update cost strategy reports.
- Caseload Management: Maintain accurate records using our case management system.
- Client Updates: Provide clear updates to clients on case progress.
- Cost Negotiation: Review and negotiate end-of-life costs
- Drafting and tactics - draft effective and bespoke Points of Dispute, review replies and provide tactical advice on the Detailed Assessment process.
- Task Delegation: Delegate tasks to team members effectively.
- Periodic Reviews: Conduct regular file reviews to meet client needs.
- Communication: Handle correspondence and calls smoothly.
- Performance Targets: Achieve and exceed performance goals, including a chargeable hours target and client SLAs
- Application Drafting: Draft and oppose applications, instruct Counsel or Costs Lawyer.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Cost Negotiation: Experienced in negotiating costs and handling disputes.
- Education: 3 GCSEs (grade 5/C or above) in Maths and English.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal skills, with client liaison experience.
- Telephone Negotiation: Effective at securing favourable outcomes.
- Caseload Management: Efficiently handles own caseload, meeting targets.
- Initiative: Proactive and resourceful.
- Planning: Expert in prioritizing workloads.
- Listening: Excellent listening skills.
- Decision-Making: Confident under pressure.
- Teamwork: Collaborative and supportive.
- IT Proficiency: Skilled in using technology.
Desirable:
- Education – Degree and/or LPC and/or ALCD or equivalent.
- Experience preparing and responding to budgets
- Conducted own advocacy.
Working Hours
35 hours per week, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. Primary location for this role is Bolton
35 hours per week, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch. Primary location for this role is Bolton
Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance ( Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death in Service
- Critical Illness Cover
- PHI/Income Protection ( Private health insurance)
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
*after successfully completing probation
About Keoghs
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S. Over the past ten years Davies has grown its annual revenues more than 20-fold, investing heavily in research & development, innovation & automation, colleague development, and client service. Today the group serves more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.
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