Senior Bilingual Disability Claims Consultant

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

• Manage your litigated block of cases with a strong proactive customer service focus, exhibiting expert skill in both disability and litigation management and following relevant practices, processes, and guidelines
• Represent Sun Life in a highly professional manner at mediations, examinations for discovery, pre-trials, trials, grievance arbitrations and at any other judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding
• Instruct our legal counsel on the final disposition of litigated claims
• Handle other escalated matters in thorough, timely and effective manner, following relevant practices and processes, again with a strong proactive customer service focus
• Provide leadership in complex case management
• Build a strong knowledge of litigation management strategies
• Work to improve your quality outcomes
• Build strong, effective relationships with your manager, and other members of the litigation management team, working in partnership with them to help the team meet expected business outcomes
• Create and deliver presentations to disability claims operations based on common trends within litigation or on other relevant topics
• Demonstrate an excellent knowledge of group insurance, disability case management strategies and risk management
• Consistently build strong working relationships with members of our legal services department, disability claims operations, and other stakeholders, working proactively and in partnership with them
• Contribute to a dynamic work environment by identifying opportunities to continuously improve processes to better meet our service excellence, quality and financial commitments to our customers
• Identify issues and solutions on litigated cases that require follow-up within the disability operations
• Contribute to the ongoing business retention and growth by building strong working relationships with our customers and by your proactive engagement with plan sponsors
• Help prioritize work to meet customer expectations
• Coach and mentor other team members as opportunities arise
• Bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide

Competencies:

• Stellar customer service skills
• Strong organizational, analytical and decision‑making skills
• Excellent listening skills and capacity for empathy
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to deal with stressful situations
• Ability to self‑reflect and demonstrate other personal characteristics that positively influence your own engagement and growth
• Strong interpersonal and motivational skills
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to change
• Ability to understand and explain new concepts to successfully transfer knowledge and promote both engagement and implementation
• Strong ability to objectively review information taking into consideration all aspects of files/situations
• Strong ability to work collaboratively with others
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate
• Ability to travel (valid driver’s license and access to vehicle are required for travel)
• Ability to work from Sun Life office location
• Excellent knowledge of disability case management strategies
• Strong computer skills and Microsoft Office knowledge
• Flexibility in working hours

Assets:

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience
• At least 5 years of recent disability case management experience
• Some knowledge of litigation case management strategies
• Strong negotiation skills

What's in it for you:

• Access to short-term assignments or Gigs across the organization, to help you develop new skills and connections
• A collaborative and interactive team environment
• Charitable giving through our You Give, We Give program lets you give back to your community – and in many cases, we’ll match your contributions.
• Care Days available for self-care or care of others (i.e., family or others you may support) and Sick Days to support your well‑being.
• The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
• Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues.
• We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
• Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e‑mail a request to View email address on click.appcast.io.
• We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.
• We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

Salary Range: 80,000/80 000 - 128,000/128 000

Job Category: Claims - Life & Disability

Posting End Date: 04/09/2026