Vice President Casualty Claims Delivery

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

3d • $266,800 - $317,875 • Hybrid

About The Position

This Vice President Casualty Claims Delivery role was established to address increasing claim complexity and severity by introducing dedicated senior leadership focused on execution, performance, and outcomes across Casualty. The role provides clear ownership of high-severity and high-cost segments, ensuring accountability for loss cost performance, severity management, and expense control. Responsible for end-to-end delivery and operational performance, the Vice President Casualty Claims Delivery drives consistency in claim execution, reinforces escalation discipline, and ensures adherence to established claim handling standards. Ultimately, this position is designed to strengthen accountability for financial results, improve consistency and predictability in claim outcomes, and enhance operational rigor and control. As an Officer, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This may require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated increasing levels of responsibility and achievement in Claims, Finance, Operations, and/or Project Management leadership roles.
• Extensive experience leading large cross-functional teams; exceptional project management skills.
• 4 years Bachelors Degree (Strongly Preferred)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Has and maintains all appropriate licenses and registrations for the role per state requirements, if applicable.
• Casualty Management
• Change Leadership
• Financial Acumen
• Innovation
• Operational Excellence
• People Leadership

Nice To Haves

• Track record of building, developing, and leading high‑performing large organizations; establishes clear decision rights, accountability, and operating cadence while developing future leaders and succession pipelines.
• Demonstrates strong financial acumen with the ability to interpret complex financial data, assess business performance, and translate insights into actionable strategies that drive profitability and informed decision-making.
• Brings strong operational expertise, with a proven ability to optimize processes, drive execution against strategic priorities, and deliver consistent, high-quality results across complex business environments.
• Ability to translate enterprise strategy into disciplined regional execution, balancing local market needs with standardized operating models to achieve measurable results.
• Natural business process innovator with strong learning agility and a continuous‑improvement mindset.
• Proven capability to successfully influence decision-makers and collaborators at all levels - upward, downward, and laterally. Able to build alignment, negotiate effectively, and drive outcomes without relying solely on positional authority.
• Proven ability to lead large, multi‑location teams through significant change, including business transformations, systems implementations, and organizational integrations.
• Effectively navigates complex organizational structures, building strong cross-functional relationships and influencing across multiple layers. Demonstrates the ability to operate with clarity and confidence in matrixed environments, ensuring alignment and progress amid complexity.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large geographically dispersed Claims organization.
• Drive results through continuous improvement, portfolio management, product implementation, prioritization and incremental technology budget oversight and contract support.
• Achieve income target by leading execution of strategy and processes to manage severity for their territory and increasing deployable capital by achieving claims expense ratio targets.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across the organization to drive efficiencies to achieve targeted growth of the business by exceeding country-wide customer satisfaction goals and extending claim technology strategies to support growth.
• Point of contact for line of business to SVP providing counsel in making strategic plans to ensure efficiency and productivity.
• Create and execute a sound talent development strategy for claims anticipating changing business circumstances.
• Motivate and provide leadership to team members and ensure the proper allocation of employees to the highest priority deliverables; ensure employees have the appropriate structure, tools, resources, required to perform their job at the highest levels.
• Ensure the development of a diverse pool of talent to meet current and future organizational needs.
• Create an environment that values diverse backgrounds and perspectives where people work together effectively.

Benefits

• Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
• Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
• When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating.
• Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Associate degree