Aviva Canada
SeniorServiceManager
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“Senior Service Manager at Aviva Canada. Skills: Service Leadership, Customer Retention, Complaint Resolution. Lead Service Performance & Retention Outcomes. Own retention performance”
Industry & Context.
Ability to diagnose root causes and lead sustainable fixes; Identify friction and waste
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proven experience leading leaders In service or retention teams in insurance, financial services, or regulated environments., Hands-on experience with complaints, QA, and service performance management., Ability to diagnose root causes and lead sustainable fixes., Comfortable balancing customer care with risk, cost, and retention outcomes., Experience improving service efficiency without breaking trust., Clear, confident communicator with the courage to challenge and the humility to listen., cross-functional influencer—especially with Underwriting, Risk, Workforce, Sales, and Ops., Leadership experience in insurance service or contact-centre environments, knowledge of personal lines products, Confident performance manager and coach, Calm under decisive when it matters
Nice to Have
understanding of what actually drives customer loyalty—not just survey scores.
What You'll Do.
Lead Service Performance & Retention Outcomes
Own retention performance
Drive service excellence
Ensure customers experience fast resolution
Oversee complaint operating model
Use complaint insights to remove failure demand
Ensure PCI meets customer experience standards
Lead frontline service leaders
Create an environment for best work
Develop service capability
Build depth and succession
Identify friction and waste
Improve First Point Resolution
Reduce Average Handle Time
Lead service-driven retention initiatives
Use data to understand customer churn
Balance customer empathy with commercial discipline
Use dashboards and performance insights
Prioritize improvement actions
Ensure service activity meets expectations
Maintain high QA standards
Champion customer-first behaviours
Set clear expectations
Build trust through consistency
Foster a culture of doing right
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with broader colleagues in personal insurance; cross-functional influencer—especially with Underwriting, Risk, Workforce, Sales, and Ops.
Communication Scope
Clear, confident communicator; courage to challenge; humility to listen
Full Job Description
## **Experience Aviva** Together, we are Aviva. Our values — Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence — guide how we show up for each other and for our customers. Individually, they’re words. Together, they define who we are. At Aviva Canada, we put people first, our employees, our customers, and our communities. We’re proud of a culture built on care, inclusion, and collaboration, where your voice matters and your growth is supported. We’re not just about insurance; we’re about making a real difference by protecting what matters most. **The Opportunity** We are looking for a high‑impact Senior Service Manager to lead servicing, retaining and delivering exceptional customer service within the PCI Agency owning customer outcomes after a customer chooses a PC Insurance product. This role is all about: * Delivering exceptional service for existing customers, bringing the value of PC to life in every interaction * Driving consistency, ownership, and quality at scale * Keeping PC customers with us * Make friction disappear, allowing servicing your insurance product to be as seamless as possible * Promoting self-serve and paperless adoption across existing PC customers You will be accountable for retention performance, customer experience outcomes, service efficiency, and complaint excellence across national inbound service teams. As part of the role you will also lead new hires into the broader PC agency, developing them for future sales or service focused roles If you’re energized by customers staying, complaints shrinking, and leaders owning outcomes instead of excuses this one’s for you. ## **What you’ll do:** _Lead Service Performance & Retention Outcomes_ * Own retention performance across the PCI Agency, including renewal saves, cancellation prevention, and win‑back service strategies. * Drive service excellence across calls, chats and emails. * Ensure customers experience fast, first‑time‑right resolution, with clear accountability for outcomes. * Work with bro
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