Senior Director, Claims Workforce Management
Posted Sep 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you automated a recurring planning model. What did it save and what did it change?
What they are checking: Whether they have actually moved planning off manual spreadsheets and can show the payoff.
Tell me about a time a forecast was badly wrong. What did you learn and what did you change?
What they are checking: Whether they own misses and improve the model rather than blaming the business or the data.
How do you lead a workforce management team that is fully remote across the country?
What they are checking: Whether they can set direction and develop people they mostly see on video calls.
What would you do
A sudden spike in claims volume threatens prompt-pay standards. What do you do in the first week?
What they are checking: Whether they can act fast on staffing levers while keeping an eye on regulatory timeliness rules.
How do you influence senior leaders who want lower headcount than your model says you need?
What they are checking: Whether they can defend a staffing plan with data while showing tradeoffs leaders can choose between.
How do you balance service, quality and efficiency when they pull against each other?
What they are checking: Whether they can make clear tradeoffs instead of promising leaders they can maximize everything at once.
About the work
Walk me through how you would build a capacity plan for a large claims operation.
What they are checking: Whether they understand claims inventory, handle times and staffing math well enough to lead the model design.
How is workforce planning for claims different from planning for a contact center?
What they are checking: Whether they know backlog work behaves differently from live calls and needs different forecasting.
Which scenarios would you build into a long-term staffing model for claims?
What they are checking: Whether they think ahead to membership growth, new markets, automation and policy changes.
How would auto adjudication rates affect your staffing assumptions?
What they are checking: Whether they understand how system automation changes the human workload in a claims operation.
What key performance measures would you put in front of executives each month?
What they are checking: Whether they know which few numbers tell leaders if the claims operation is healthy.
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