SIU Director

You have a clear vision of where your career can go. And we have the leadership to help you get there. At CNA, we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important, ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential. CNA's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) protects our customers, our business partners and the company by detecting, investigating and resolving insurance fraud.

We're looking for an experienced investigations leader to direct our single-claim investigative management team, part of Claims Technical Shared Services.

Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

• Leads the overall operational activities, budgetary, and financial responsibilities of fraud investigations unit by directing the services provided by both internal resources and external service providers to maximize unit performance.
• Participates in the development and execution of strategic and operational initiatives based on departmental and corporate goals and objectives.
• Ensures vendor services are performed in accordance with corporate policy, contract provisions, fiduciary guidelines, and service agreements by participating in the negotiations, monitoring, and evaluating vendor performance.
• Makes informed strategic and operational business decisions by identifying and analyzing trends and improvement opportunities through the effective use of resources, tools, and metrics.
• Responsible for the ongoing management of staff by attracting talent, setting clear direction, providing appropriate guidance, managing performance, recognizing contributions, and developing capabilities.
• Maintains transparent communication by appropriately communicating organization information through department meetings, one-on-one meetings, email and regular interpersonal communication; works to build consensus.
• Ensures quality by establishing and overseeing best practices, and ensuring the development and delivery of training as needed.
• Maintains and shares industry knowledge by keeping current on law, trends, and issues.
• Represent the company at industry associations and representing the company at insurance fraud or related industry associations and events.
• May participate in special projects including investigations or surveillance on high complexity matters.

• Ability to effectively lead, coach and develop an investigations group consisting of multiple layers, and effectively manage external service providers.
• Technical and business management acumen; advanced claims investigations and resolution skills; advanced knowledge of insurance and claims handling principles, practices, and procedures.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills with the ability to effectively interact with internal and external business partners at all levels.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and teams.
• Ability to deal effectively with ambiguous situations and issues.
• Creative thinker; embraces diverse and innovative ideas to solve problems.
• Proven ability to achieve results by taking a proactive long-term view of business goals and objectives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and business software.
• Acts with a sense of urgency to advance priorities of the organization.
• Helps others to excel through collaboration and building strong relationships.
• Raises expectations of self and others by continuously learning and broadening industry and technical skills.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree…