Motor Deployment Agent

Customer Service & Claims
Permanent

Role overview

About Us

DLG is evolving. Across every facet of our business, our teams are embracing new opportunities and putting customers at the heart of everything they do. By joining them, you’ll have the opportunity to not just be recognised for your skills but encouraged to build upon them and empowered to do your absolute best.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Birmingham based Motor Fulfilment team as a Motor Deployment Agent, on full-time and permanent basis.

Purpose of Role

Our Motor Deployment Agents provide support and manage the external engineers (motor field) team’s workload by being responsible for arranging inspections of vehicles following a motor claim. Playing a pivotal role in our customers experience, our Liaisons ensure we are utilising our engineering field force effectively by organising efficient routes, whilst providing high levels of customer service.  Responsible for fulfilling the total loss journey by ensuring speedy payments to customers and making sure all systems are correctly updated. This is a role which is constantly evolving to meet the business needs and to provide our customers with a first class service.

Key Accountabilities

  • Achieve / exceed key customer metrics, ensuring the customer experience is at the heart of everything we do, treating customers fairly at all times.

  • Handle inspection requests which consist of: Low Speed Impact / Credit Hire and Without Prejudice inspections.  

  • Lead, develop and use appropriate judgement to deliver excellent performance, in line with the Direct Line Group values and strategy

  • Ensure the best use of your resource to meet customer demands and achieve business Service Level Agreement’s

  • Control and manage the operational costs

  • Identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to your role, interacting with the appropriate internal and external contacts, ensuring opportunities and threats are managed proactively and in line with the Group Risk Framework minimum standards.

What we are looking for:

  • Excellent customer service skills

  • A strong communicator – both verbal and written

  • Excellent organisational skills

  • Team player

  • Ability to work well under pressure

  • Ability to learn new skills whilst working in a fast-paced environment

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm)

Location: Birmingham (Livery Street)

What we’ll give you:
We wouldn’t be where we are today without our people and the wide variety of perspectives and life experiences they bring. That’s why we offer excellent benefits to suit your lifestyle and a flexible working model combining the best parts of home and office working, varying with the nature of your role. Core benefits include:

  • 9% Private Pension

  • 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover

  • Additional optional Health and Dental insurance

  • EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.

  • Generous holiday allowance

  • Buy as you earn share scheme

  • Employee discounts and cashback

  • Plus many more

Ways of Working: Our hybrid model offers a 'best of both worlds' approach. When you'll be in the office depends on your role and team, but colleagues spend at least 2 days a week in the office.

We want everyone to get the most out of their time at DLG. Which is why we’ve looked beyond the financial rewards and created an offer that takes your whole life into account. Supporting our people to work at their best – whatever that looks like — and offering real choice, flexibility, and a greater work-life balance that means our people have time to focus on the things that matter most to them. Our benefits are about more than just the money you earn. They’re about recognising who you are and the life you live.

Be yourself

Direct Line Group is an equal opportunity employer, and we think diversity of background and thinking is a big strength in our people. We're delighted to feature as one of the UK's Top 50 Inclusive Employers and are committed to making our business an inclusive place to work, where everyone can be themselves and succeed in their careers.

We know you're more than a CV, and the things that make you, you, are what bring potential to our business. We recognise and embrace people that work in different ways so if you need any adjustments to our recruitment process, please speak to the recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

#LI-PK1 #Hybrid

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Locations

Birmingham

Life in Customer Service, Sales and Claims

Working in our Customer Service, Sales and Claims teams means making sure sure our customers feel valued, understood and supported at every stage of their journey. Whether it’s home or motor plans, these teams do the demanding but rewarding job of making our customers’ experience a smooth and positive one.

Benefits

Our benefits are about more than just the money you earn. They're about recognising who you are and the life you live – and supporting you with the things that matter both in and outside work.

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The Basics

Holidays

22 days holiday rising to 30 days depending on your role. Plus the chance to buy and sell up to 5 days

Pension

Company contributions of 9% of your salary towards your pension

Income protection

Income protection on 50% of your salary for 5 years

Life assurance

Life assurance cover at four times your salary

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Discounts

Breakdown cover

Free Green Flag breakdown cover

Insurance

50% off Direct Line Group products in Motor, Home and Pet insurance when you’re named on the policy

Shopping

Discounts and cashback savings across hundreds of other well-known brands

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Flexibility

Flexible benefits scheme

Adjust your income protection, life assurance, and benefits package through our flexible benefits scheme

Salary sacrifice

Salary sacrifice scheme for fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars, and for private dental and medical cover

Parental leave

Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and emergency dependant leave

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Wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), offering information on financial and mental wellbeing as well as emergency support and advice

Mental health first aid

Trained mental health first aiders (MHFA) for support whenever you need it

Volunteering opportunities

Volunteering opportunities through our partnership with Neighbourly

Donation matching

Up to £50 a month to match any contributions you make to your local community

OUR PEOPLE

What our people are saying in Customer Service, Sales and Claims

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In previous roles, I dealt with a much broader range of issues. Here, it’s much more focussed, detailed and logistically challenging.

My passion is investigation. It might sound boring to some people, but I wake up thinking about what I’m going to encounter that day.

Every day I get to help people going through difficult situations. It makes them happy, and it just gives me a good feeling.

I love helping people and solving problems for customers. It gives me satisfaction to know that I have made a difference to someone.