Customer Relationship Manager

Bryte Insurance

2026/04/02   Johannesburg


Job Ref #: BI-275
Industry: Insurance
Job Type: Permanent
Positions Available: 1
Serve as the primary liaison between Bryte, and their clients or potential clients. To develop customer specific value-added services in conjunction with the Claims Operations and work as a customer champion ensuring that the role is conducted in the most effective, efficient way whilst delivering a customer centric claims service in a manner which supports the Bryte Values.
Job Description

Serve as the primary liaison between Bryte, and their clients or potential clients. To develop customer specific value-added services in conjunction with the Claims Operations and work as a customer champion ensuring that the role is conducted in the most effective, efficient way whilst delivering a customer centric claims service in a manner which supports the Bryte Values.

Job Requirements

Key tasks & Accountabilities

  • Helps develop and reinforce a customer-centric culture across the Claims Operations, which will include identifying the development needs of staff, access to customer information, the involvement in process design and the matching/build of appropriate customer solutions.
  • Personally, mentors and develop the Claims Operations to fulfil the needs of the customer proposition - Seeks to understand and develop customer requirements as an integral part of the Customer Relationship Team, driving a comprehensive and consistent claims marketing strategy to help generate and promote/retain new and existing business.
  • Seeks out resources to resolve performance issues, give technical guidance and necessary support and involvement at customer/broker/partnerships forums.
  • The principle contact for the customer on any claims related issues or discussion points. - Build and maintain a customer/broker/market engagement strategy in conjunction with marketing and the Customer Relationship Team, which includes the management of expectations and the provision of specific customer insight.
  • Ensuring and monitoring a seamless service is provided to customers, influencing many internal and external stakeholders without formal authority.
  • Capture and accurately record actions arising from customer meetings, including changes to customer protocols, maintenance of issue logs/audit trail and populate the appropriate insight tools that contain market/customer intelligence
  • Effective reporting and analysis

 

Success Measures

  • To work towards and deliver both personal and claims business objectives
  • Internal Engagement Score
  • External Engagement Score
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • (Financial) Efficiency/Effectiveness
  • Quality and compliance 
  • People Development

 

Skills & Competencies

  • Communication & Interpersonal Skills
  • Problem-Solving
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Organisational Skills

 

Relationship

Internal

  • Engage/Influence and Inform Claims Management/Operations and Leadership Team Engage/Influence and collaborate with Claims procurement
  • Engage/Influence and collaborate with Marketing and Customer Relationship Teams
  • Engage/Influence and collaborate with Underwriting and Finance
  • Engage/Influence and collaborate with Training Specialist
  • Engage/Inform and collaborate with Audit and Compliance

 

External

  • Engage/Inform and build strong relationships with Customers/Brokers/Intermediaries/Partners
  • Engage, Influence and collaborate with Claims Vendors/service providers
  • Collaborate with external auditors

 

Effective customer focus & Service

  • Provide exceptional customer in line with Treating Customers Fairly Principles.
  • Liaise with internal stakeholders to facilitate problem resolution and efficiency of work activities.
  • Communicate with stakeholders on a daily basis to inform of progress of claims and claim policy and procedure.
  • Deal with and resolve any queries relevant to area; if unable to resolve, escalate to manager for resolution.
  • Represent the organization through maintaining high levels of professionalism, service excellence and customer excellence.
  • Adhere to internal policies, processes and procedures.

 

Networking & Relationship Building

  • Work with different people internally and externally to improve service, efficiency, and improve presentation of information.
  • Attend relevant industry forums to ensure that the Company is adhering to relevant legislation and regulations and kept abreast of any industry changes relevant to Salvage.
  • Manage service providers and partners to ensure that they adhere to negotiated rates and fees.
  • Actively build, improve and maintain relationships with all stakeholders, i.e. internally and externally.
  • Regularly meet with brokers, service providers, partners and other divisions to ensure challenges they may face are addressed.
  • Act as a change agent and drive transformation and/or change initiatives within the claim's environment.
  • Ensure that relevant regulatory requirements are adhered to.

 

Business Accountabilities

  • Relationship Management Liaising in a professional manner with brokers, suppliers, industry bodies and other insurers in respect of claims aspects.
  • Follow up on regular intervals and provide constructive feedback to brokers, suppliers, industry bodies and Claims Management and respond to queries within agreed SLAs.
  • Provide exceptional customer service and to drive customer centric behaviors in line with Bryte values.
  • Support the Heads of Claims to drive and implement the overall Bryte and Claims strategy.
  • Collect and submit reports specific to team data as part of the Management Control System.
  • Possess a good understanding of salvage, assessing, legal and investigation environment and keep up to date with the latest trends and industry norms.

 

Qualification & Experience

  • Minimum Matric /Grade12
  • Bachelor’s Degree/ Equivalent
  • 5-10 years of working within claims operations or customer role (CRM)
  • Be able to demonstrate knowledge of Insurance Industry products, services, standards and protocols 
  • Be able to demonstrate an understanding of legal liability within the designated departments that the role operates
  • Be able to demonstrate knowledge of claims agreements
  • Previous experience in data analysis and report writing essential
  • Provide examples of strong communication skills and demonstrate active listening skills - Computer literate with evidence of using power-point, word and excel
  • Be able to demonstrate a high level of EQ (inter-personal and intra-personal skills)

 

Closing date :10 April 2026