The AA
Senior Operations Manager – Large Loss & PI
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Company Description
Location: Basingstoke and Tunbridge Wells (Hybrid working, 3 office days per week)
Employment Type: Permanent
Why Join Us?
- Annual bonus, car allowance, and private medical insurance
- Lead the operational delivery and continued development of our Personal Injury and Large Loss claims functions
- Shape claims transformation through process optimisation, technology, and automation, improving customer and commercial outcomes
- Build leadership capability across your teams and influence senior stakeholders across Claims, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Customer functions
Company Description / Business Unit
For over a century, The AA has been keeping Britain moving. Today, millions of drivers trust us to be there when it matters most, and we're equally committed to supporting the people who make that possible. With a 4.5-star Glassdoor rating, we've built a culture where colleagues are empowered to grow, collaborate, and make a real impact for our customers on every journey. Recognized by Sunday Times “Best Places to Work” for the last two years.
Job Description
This is a senior leadership opportunity to shape how our Personal Injury and Large Loss claims functions perform and evolve, with a clear focus on excellent customer outcomes, strong commercial performance, and robust regulatory standards.
Reporting to the Head of Claims Operations, you’ll lead day-to-day operational delivery across service, complaints, governance, risk, and controls, while managing a small personal portfolio of complex claims. You’ll use performance insight, process optimisation, and technology to drive continuous improvement and transformation, ensuring FCA expectations, Consumer Duty principles, and internal governance standards are embedded in how we work.
Leading through others, you’ll build capability across your leadership teams, create a culture of accountability and customer focus, and work closely with stakeholders across Claims, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Customer functions. You’ll thrive here if you combine sound judgment with strong operational leadership, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence at senior level.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day performance of our Personal Injury and Large Loss claims teams, delivering against agreed service, financial, indemnity, regulatory, and customer outcome measures.
- Provide senior oversight across complex claims, including a small personal portfolio, so customer, operational, and regulatory issues are managed effectively and escalations are resolved with sound judgment.
- Build a high-performing and accountable leadership team, developing capability, setting clear expectations, and translating operational priorities into effective plans and actions.
- Own the end-to-end claims complaints framework, using root cause analysis and customer insight to reduce recurring issues, strengthen journeys, and improve customer outcomes.
- Embed a robust governance, risk, and control environment across claims operations, ensuring FCA requirements, Consumer Duty principles, and internal standards are consistently understood and applied.
- Use management information across customer, operational, financial, and risk measures to improve service levels, indemnity spend, cost to serve, and resource management, translating insight into clear interventions.
- Shape the continued transformation of Claims by simplifying processes, championing technology, automation, and digital solutions, and influencing senior stakeholders across Claims, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Customer functions.
Qualifications
You’ll Bring
- Strong leadership capability within claims, insurance operations, or another regulated customer environment.
- Proven ability to lead through multiple management layers, developing leadership capability and creating high-performing, accountable teams.
- Deep understanding of FCA requirements, Consumer Duty, TCF, and wider regulatory and governance expectations within an insurance environment.
- Strong claims knowledge, including operational performance, indemnity control, customer outcomes, complaints, and the management of complex claims.
- Strong analytical and commercial capability, with confidence interpreting operational, financial, customer, and risk MI and balancing customer, cost, and risk outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder management and transformation experience, with the credibility to influence senior leaders and lead continuous improvement, process optimisation, and technology-enabled change.
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Nice to Have
- Experience or knowledge of Personal Injury and/or Large Loss claims.
- Experience of owning or significantly influencing complaints frameworks and using root cause analysis to drive improvement.
- Experience working with suppliers or partners to improve performance and customer outcomes.
Additional Information
Belonging at The AA
At The AA, we value the unique perspectives, experiences, and ideas that our people bring. We've nurtured a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to do their best work.
Through our employee communities and inclusion initiatives, we’ve created opportunities for people to connect, share experiences, and influence positive change across the business. This is a place where your voice matters and where you can belong, grow, and succeed.
Driven by People, Rewarded by Benefits
We believe in rewarding our people. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, the option to buy additional holiday
- Up to 7% employer pension contribution
- Free AA breakdown membership from Day One with 50% discount for family and friends, discounts on AA products including car and home insurance
- 24/7 GP access and wellbeing support for you and your family
- A wide range of employee discounts, including our popular car salary sacrifice scheme
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