Risk and Claims Manager

Keller Executive Search is partnering with a family-owned leader in the waste and recycling industry to recruit a Risk and Claims Manager based full-time on-site in Cincinnati, OH. Our client is one of the largest firms of its kind, delivering essential waste and recycling services to millions of residents, businesses, and communities, and it is growing quickly. This is a high-impact leadership seat within the Loss Control department, offering the chance to shape how a large, fast-expanding operation manages risk and resolves claims.

Waste, recycling, and fleet operations carry some of the most complex and high-exposure risk profiles in the country, where commercial auto claims combine high frequency with significant severity. That makes disciplined, data-driven claims leadership a genuine driver of the bottom line. In this role you will lead a small, experienced team of claims professionals, own the timely and sound resolution of complex commercial auto, property-damage, and bodily-injury claims within settlement authority, and turn claims data into risk-reduction strategy that lowers the company's total cost of risk.

This is a replacement hire with a built-in advantage: you will overlap with the current, long-tenured manager for hands-on knowledge transfer, so you can ramp with confidence rather than start cold. Beyond the desk, you will partner with safety, operations, HR, IT, and legal to design and measure loss-control programs, and present actionable tren