12 Nov
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Trip Jack
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Mumbai
About Volaron Tech (a subsidiary of Tripjack)
Volaron Tech is a fast-growing, PE-backed company building cutting-edge products in the insurance and value-added services space. We are proud to be a subsidiary of TripJack, Indias leading B2B online travel platform, making us part of the dynamic and high-growth travel industry. Our leadership team brings rich experience from top global organizations like Citi, PhonePe, HDFC Bank, Aviva, Bain etc.
At Volaron, we’re building innovative solutions with a young and passionate team based in a vibrant co-working space in Mumbai’s western suburbs. If you’re looking to be part of a high-energy environment with exciting growth opportunities, we’d love to connect!
Role: Head - Travel Insurance Claims
Location: Mumbai ( Goregaon )
Experience:6-10 years
Education: Graduation Degree, preferably MBA from Tier I/II B-School
Key Responsibilities
- Team &
- People Management
- Lead, coach, and manage the Claims Support team to ensure consistent performance and service quality.
- Allocate claims effectively across the team and ensure optimal workload distribution.
- Monitor individual and team KPIs such as TAT, accuracy, closure rate, and customer satisfaction.
- Conduct regular performance reviews, feedback sessions, and training interventions.
- Act as the first escalation point for team members on complex or sensitive claims.
- Claims Operations
- Own end-to-end claim lifecycle governance across the team, from intimation, documentation, processing, approval/rejection, and closure.
- Ensure all claims are registered accurately with insurance companies and TPAs as per defined SLAs.
- Review documentation quality and ensure compliance with insurer-specific requirements.
- Proactively track aging claims and drive follow-ups to prevent delays.
- Handle high-value, critical, or escalated claims directly when required.
- Lead, coach, and manage the Claims Support team to ensure consistent performance and service quality.
- Stakeholder &
- Escalation Management
- Serve as the primary escalation interface with TPAs and insurance companies for unresolved or delayed claims.
- Maintain strong working relationships with insurer and TPA teams to improve turnaround and issue resolution.
- Coordinate with internal sales, operations, and relationship teams to ensure alignment and timely communication.
- Ensure timely and accurate communication to travel agents/customers in case of exceptions or delays.
- MIS, Reporting &
- Compliance
- Review and publish daily/weekly/monthly MIS on claim volumes, TAT, pendency, rejection trends, and escalations.
- Ensure accurate documentation and record maintenance to support audits and compliance requirements.
- Analyze data to identify recurring issues, bottlenecks, and insurer/TPA-related challenges.
- Process Improvement
- Drive continuous process improvements to enhance efficiency, reduce claim TATs, and minimize errors.
- Implement standard operating procedures (SOPs), checklists, and quality benchmarks for the team.
- Collaborate with leadership to implement automation or system enhancements where applicable.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory, insurer, and internal compliance standards.
- Business Process Transformation (Claims &
- Customer Service)
- Act as the transformation lead for Claims and Customer Service, defining the target operating model, multi-year roadmap and measurable outcomes (TAT, cost per claim, first-contact resolution, NPS/CSAT).
- Map current-state (as-is) processes end to end, identify pain points, hand-offs and redundancies, and design simplified, scalable future-state (to-be) processes.
- Partner with Product and Tech teams to digitise the claims journey, including online claim intimation, document upload, real-time status tracking, and API integrations with insurers and TPAs.
- Identify and drive automation and AI opportunities such as chatbots, auto-acknowledgements and proactive status notifications to travel agents and customers.
- Build a Voice of Customer framework using feedback, complaint and rejection analysis to address root causes and reduce repeat escalations.
- Define and track transformation KPIs, build business cases for current initiatives, and present progress and impact to senior leadership.
- Benchmark against industry best practices and introduce frameworks such as Lean, Six Sigma or Kaizen to build a culture of continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
- Qualifications and Experience required:
- 10 years of robust experience in Insurance claims, preferably with a reputed insurance company, TPA or insurance broker.
- Minimum 2–4 years of experience managing claims teams or operations.
- Familiarity with insurer/TPA portals and claims submission procedures.
- Proven track record of leading business process transformation, automation or digitisation initiatives in claims, operations or customer service
- Lean / Six Sigma certification preferred.
- Graduation Degree, preferably MBA from Tier I/II B-School
- Key competencies for the role:
- A customer-focused mindset with a high degree of empathy and professionalism in all interactions.
- Demonstrated commitment to customer centricity, ensuring a smooth, transparent, and supportive claims experience for travel agents and their customers.
- Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- High resilience and comfort with ambiguity in a dynamic start-up ecosystem.
- Transformation mindset with the ability to challenge the status quo, think in terms of systems and customer journeys, and turn strategy into execution.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort working alongside Product and Tech teams on requirements, process flows and user acceptance testing.
- Ability to engage and transact with senior internal and external stakeholders.
📌 Head - Travel Insurance Claims (Mumbai)
🏢 Trip Jack
📍 Mumbai