- Posting Location: Bucuresti, Romania
Senior Insurance Claims Specialist - Life&Health
- Location
- Posting Location: Bucuresti, Romania
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- €103k – €137k
About this role
Description and Requirements
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 Senior Claims Specialist - Life & Health is responsible for delivering fair, timely, and customer-centric claims decisions while driving continuous improvement, digital transformation, and operational excellence across MetLife Romania's Life and Health Claims function. This role ensures that customers receive support when they need it the most, contributing directly to MetLife's purpose of building a more confident future for our customers across Romania. This is an exciting opportunity to combine claims expertise, customer advocacy, and AI-enabled innovation to help shape the future of claims management and create simpler, faster, and more empathetic customer experiences.
- Manage complex life, health, and disability claims end-to-end, from assessment and benefit determination through payment and final resolution.
- Make sound, well-documented claims decisions and communicate outcomes clearly and empathetically to customers and beneficiaries.
- Provide technical expertise on complex claims, policy interpretation, and benefit determination, supporting colleagues when needed.
- Ensure claims are managed in line with policy provisions, regulatory requirements, risk, fraud prevention, KYC/AML, data protection, and internal controls.
- Partner with medical advisors, reinsurers, distribution teams, and internal functions to deliver effective, customer-focused outcomes.
- Monitor claims performance and trends, identify root causes, and drive improvements in quality, efficiency, and customer experience.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and digitalize claims processes, using approved AI tools responsibly and critically.
- Contribute to claims governance, system implementations, automation, and transformation initiatives, sharing best practices across the team.
- 3+ years of experience in Life and/or Health Claims, including managing complex claims.
- Strong knowledge of insurance products, policy terms, claims assessment, and decision-making.
- Ability to interpret medical, financial, and legal documentation and make sound, well-supported decisions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and prioritization skills, with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Customer-focused approach, balancing customer needs, risk considerations, and business objectives.
- Strong ownership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, including in sensitive or challenging situations.
- AI fluency, with the ability to use approved AI and digital tools responsibly, critically evaluate outputs, and identify opportunities for greater efficiency and automation.
- Intermediate to advanced English and strong Microsoft 365 skills.
- University degree in Medicine, Economics, Law, Finance, Insurance, or another relevant field.
- Experience leading or participating in digital transformation, process improvement, or claims automation initiatives.
- Previous experience in AI-powered productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) and the ability to apply them to enhance operational efficiency and customer outcomes.
- Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or other continuous improvement certifications and experience working in cross-functional change initiatives.
- A curious, improvement-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for using technology.
The expected salary range for this position is 102900 - 137200. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our benefits address holistic wellbeing with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan paid for by the company and access to a private medical subscription, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). You’ll also enjoy a hybrid way of work with flexible hours, meal vouchers, an annual performance bonus, and a vacation bonus. In addition to your standard paid time off, you also get one “special day” off, a sick day, and extra vacation days based on seniority.
About MetLife
Recognized as a Great Place To Work®, Metropolitan Life, 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.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
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!
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