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Allianz appoints new head of claims suppliers & experts
Allianz Insurance has appointed Graham Stait to the position of head of claims suppliers & experts. The new appointment also sees Graham become a member of Allianz‘s Claims Management Board.
Graham will be responsible for leading the motor engineer and claims investigator functions, in additon to overseeing the supplier services team.
After joining the Allianz graduate programme in 2008, Graham has held a variety of leadership roles across the organisation. In his most recent position as claims proposition and change manager, Graham was responsible for delivering improvements to enhance customer experience and streamline claims processes, with a particular focus on digital initiatives, which included a secondment at Allianz’s Global Digital Factory in Munich.
Allianz’s chief claims officer, Graham Gibson said:
“I am very pleased to welcome Graham to his new role and the Claims Management Board. Since joining Allianz in 2008, he has built up a strong knowledge of the market and our customers, alongside a proven track record of delivering positive results and a passion for digital initatives”.
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The information contained in this press release relates to Allianz Insurance plc. Allianz Insurance plc is one of the largest general insurers in the UK and part of the Allianz Group.
The Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers with more than 88 million retail and corporate customers. Allianz Group customers benefit from a broad range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance. Allianz Group is one of the world’s largest investors, managing over 650 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers while our asset managers Allianz Global Investors and PIMCO manage an additional 1.4 trillion euros of third-party assets. Thanks to our systematic integration of ecological and social criteria in our business processes and investment decisions, we hold the leading position for insurers in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In 2017, over 140,000 employees in more than 70 countries achieved total revenue of 126 billion euros and an operating profit of 11 billion euros for the group.
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