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Optimisation Lead

Work type:  Full Time

Date posted:  22-Oct-2025

Location:  North Lakes - QLD

Industry: Insurance

Salary: Great salary package on offer $95,000.00

Optimisation Lead - Motor Claims (Recoveries & Settlements)

Drive change, optimise processes, and influence outcomes in a high-performance insurance culture!
Are you passionate about simplifying complex processes, driving operational excellence and leading change? Join a successful purpose-led insurer in growth, entering a significant optimisation and transformation phase.

As the Optimisation Lead, you will work across Recoveries & Settlements within Motor Claims to understand and stream-line processes, to optimize efficiencies, reduce costs and enhance customer outcomes, all while engaging stakeholders at across internal multi-disciplinary teams.


This role is hands-on and influential. You'll analyse the 'as-is,' and build the 'to-be,' and guide implementation through strong collaboration, change leadership and data-driven insights to influence operational and business efficiences.


What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead end-to-end optimisation initiatives across motor recoveries & settlements, from process mapping to implementation.
  • Partner closely with Ops Leaders, Data, CI, Automation (RPA) and project teams to drive measurable change.
  • Identify bottlenecks, cost impacts and customer feedback, recommending pragmatic, scalable solutions and efficiencies.
  • Create and present business cases and presentations and prioritise proposals to senior leaders.
  • Champion accountability, speed, and clarity by embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring
  • Experience in process optimisation, change, BA, CI or operational or transformational excellence, ideally within insurance, financial services or other regulated environments.
  • Proven ability to influence, simplify complexity and gain buy-in across multiple business units.
  • Strong data and analytical mindset, with the ability to link processes to cost, value and performance.
  • Confidence in building business cases, storytelling with data and presenting to senior stakeholders.
  • Energy for transformation. Balancing quick wins with a longer-term optimisation roadmap.
Why Join?
  • High-performance, high-integrity, values-based culture with authentic leadership.
  • Exposure to major process, automation & regulatory change programs.
  • Opportunity to shape a growing optimisation function with external perspective highly valued.
  • Flexible, supportive environment with scope for influence, not just analysis.
What's in it for you?
  • Great salary on offer $95,000.00 package!
  • Impact & Ownership. Lead real change to lift processes for improvements & efficiencies.
  • Cross-Business Exposure. Engage with Data, CX, Automation, Ops, Business teams and the ELT and be the SME.
  • Continuous Improvement Culture. Backed by investment in optimisation & innovation.
We're shortlisting now, so if you're ready to be the bridge between insight and action and want your optimisation work to make an impact, we'd love to hear from you!

This is an exciting career opportunity to join a dynamic organisation and deliver genuine value to the operational service delivery and performance of the business.

Apply now by following the link below. If possible, please attach your cover letter and resume in word format. For a confidential discussion, please contact Liz McGrath on 0405 370 900 or liz@hinchen.com.au 


Hinchen Recruitment Group are a team of experienced industry recruiters who offer a highly informative honest process, where our genuine goal is to provide a quality & valued service. One that is respectful to all & is as transparent as possible. Confidentiality is assured with all applications, with your privacy our utmost priority.


Acknowledgement of Country: Hinchen Recruitment Group pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia. We pay our respects to Elder's past and present and acknowledge the valuable contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make to Australian society.

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