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Claire Cochrane

Brucknell,VIC

Summary

Striving to progress career within the claims industry. Recent experience working as technical claims expert (handling catastrophic claims) in Australia added to my skillset, enhancing loss adjusting, negotiation, communication, problem solving and organisational skills. A highly efficient and organised team member with a core focus on providing first class services to both clients and customers.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Dairy Farm Hand

Boshier Farms & Taylor Farms
2024.01 - Current
  • Milking cows cups on and cups on - setting up parlour in the morning and evening
  • Cleaning the dairy thoroughly daily as well as setting up yards
  • Mastitis detection, vaccinating, dosing and treating cows for any health concern
  • Droving and herding - setting up paddocks
  • Driving a 4 wheeler and buggy
  • Spraying weeds
  • Setting up electric fences
  • Driving tractors
  • Calf rearing (training on feeder, colostrum preparation, stomach tubing, dehorning and general health management).

Nanny

Scone/Wangaratta/Mudgee
2023.01 - 2024.01
  • Transporting children to and from school/daycare
  • Manage after school schedule - taking children to extra curricular activities
  • Caring for children throughout the day - taking them on outings, baking, and doing crafts with them
  • Caring for children between the ages of 1 and 7
  • Keep up the running of the household - doing basic household chores throughout the day.

Technical Claims Expert

Sedgwick
2022.07 - 2023.01
  • Investigating and managing domestic catastrophe claims focusing on flood and storm perils
  • Supporting customers by organising alternative accomodation, restoration, emergency repairs and builders to reinstate their home back to pre loss condition
  • Identifying policy liability by reviewing reports from appointed specialists
  • Communicating with insurer, broker, and customer throughout the claims journey to ensure any issues were addressed effectivity
  • Negotiating settlement up to $500,000.

Claims Handler

NFU Mutual
2020.08 - 2022.07
  • Handling claims from cradle to grave relating to farm, personal and commercial insurance policies
  • Liaising with loss adjusters, vets, farm assessors, claims inspectors and other handlers to ensure claims were prgrsseed and settled in a reasonable time frame
  • Building a good customer relationship
  • Addressing customer complaints in relation to claim and solving their complaint.

Store Sales Person

Fane Valley Store
2019.01 - 2020.08
  • Providing advice to customers on a wide range of agriculture and animal health related products
  • Monitoring and controlling stock on a daily basis to ensure store is run efficiently
  • Managing and ordering animal feed to meet customer requirements throughout the seasons
  • Ordering and printing various livestock identification tags
  • Completed AMTRA SQP qualification in order to sell farm, equine and companion animal medicines.

Animal Care Assistant

Strone Farm Boarding Kennels
2015.06 - 2018.09
  • Caring for dogs and cats whilst delivering excellent customer service to pet owners
  • Cleaning and disinfecting dog kennels to maintain high hygiene standards
  • Feeding dogs based on their individual nutritional requirements
  • Administrating medication whilst recognising ant abnormal symptoms and/or worsening symptoms
  • Assisting with front desk support, answering phones, maintaining dog records, and interacting directly with pet owners.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Animal Sciences -

Harper Adams University
07.2018

Skills

  • Claims handling & management
  • Loss adjusting
  • Customer service
  • Agricultural sales and insurance
  • Dairy farming

References

  • Abdull Elayouby, 0484 343 187, abdull.elayouby@au.sedgwick.com, Sedgwick
  • Elaine Dunlop, 02877762996, Elaine.Dunlop@nfumutual.co.uk, NFU Mutual
  • Emma Hickson, 0423 304 662
  • Bridin Cassidy, 0420 700 451, Boshier Farms

Timeline

Dairy Farm Hand

Boshier Farms & Taylor Farms
2024.01 - Current

Nanny

Scone/Wangaratta/Mudgee
2023.01 - 2024.01

Technical Claims Expert

Sedgwick
2022.07 - 2023.01

Claims Handler

NFU Mutual
2020.08 - 2022.07

Store Sales Person

Fane Valley Store
2019.01 - 2020.08

Animal Care Assistant

Strone Farm Boarding Kennels
2015.06 - 2018.09

Bachelor of Science in Animal Sciences -

Harper Adams University
Claire Cochrane