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Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Virtual
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Posted Date
23-Jul-2026
Job ID
19039

Description and Requirements


The Team You Will Join

On MetLife’s Global Customer Service and Operations (GCSO) team, customer care is built on trust, empathy, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Whether guiding customers through life’s important moments, solving challenges, or simplifying processes with innovative technology, you’ll help deliver a differentiated experience grounded in operational excellence. Backed by a collaborative team, you’ll play a vital role in strengthening the way we care and advocate for millions worldwide. Here, making a real difference isn’t just a goal - it’s what we do, one conversation at a time.


The Opportunity

Role Overview:

•An expert technical resource to the claim team who supports the team members and the STD Unit Leader in ensuring claim management accuracy, customer centricity and efficiency. Coaches and mentors team members to enhance their knowledge, skills, and effectiveness as claim-management professionals. 
 
You will be responsible for coaching and developing our staff who are on the team. Ensure that that they are processing claims appropriately and meeting the needs of our customers and our claimants. You will act as a support to not only the team but your Unit Leader as well. Covering them in their abscence. 

Key Responsibilities

Key expectations:

•Partners with the STD Unit Leader to analyze, identify and implement strategies to enhance claim management, customer centricity and efficiency of their team while monitoring strategy effectiveness
•Drives Claim Management Accuracy and Customer Centricity through the QQA program by auditing claim file reviews including monthly call monitoring for Claims Specialist to identify improvement opportunities, skillset gaps, trends for quality, service and/or compliance
•Fully engages in customer focused training; model learned behaviors.
•Supports and guides assigned team member(s) to ensure that they have the knowledge, skills, tools, and resources to be successful in achieving expectations
•Supports team to meet or exceed regulatory and compliance requirements, and performance guarantee commitments. 
•Coaches and mentors new hires to enhance their skills, knowledge, and effectiveness as Claim Specialists. Assesses new hire readiness or independent work.
•Reviews and approves key decisions made by team member(s) within authority limit
•Assesses and provides information, trends, and observed behaviors of assigned team members to the STD Unit Leader. Partners with the STD Unit Leader as appropriate to enhance the performance of those team members.
•Identifies and facilitates claim discussions on highly complex claims with the appropriate resources including STD Unit Leader, Clinical Resources and Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants
•Supports team members to ensure that team members are effectively transitioning claims to LTD (as appropriate)
•Mentors team members to ensure  they are identifying and facilitating Return to Work  opportunities through their own efforts or by engaging the appropriate  resources.
•Provides candid and specific feedback to team members in order to support their growth  and development

Required Qualifications
•A comprehensive understanding of the disability contractual provisions, especially the definition of disability.
•Strong communication skills, including the ability to coach Case Specialist to interview claimants dynamically with the goal of setting claimant expectations and obtaining information necessary to administer the claim. 
•Basic knowledge of medical conditions, treatments, prognosis
•Expertise knowledge of  system and tools, ie…MDG, DPA, Intellis  and how to leverage tools to improve claim management effectiveness
•Strong Coaching/Mentoring skills
•Critical-thinking skills
•Ability to give and receive feedback using specific measurements and observed behaviors
•Openness to receiving feedback 
•Strategic-thinking skills 
•Prioritization skills. Ability to balance quantity and quality 

Preferred Qualifications
  • Associate Degree.
  • 2  plus years of claims management experience preferably in Healthcare field.
  • 5 plus years of Management.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word/Excel.
  • Prior STD, state leave and/or Family Medical Leave Act claims knowledge preferred.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and oral. 
  • Demonstrated critical thinking in activities requiring analysis, investigation, and/or planning.
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Ability to multitask, comfortable working with multiple priorities in a changing environment. 
  • Ability to prioritize and maintain quality.

 

The expected salary range for this position is $49,100 - $82,800. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms. 

 

Benefits We Offer

 Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!


MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.

MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities.