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Yorick GroevenYG

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About Yorick

For the past four years, I've been running cross-border operations for a medical and travel assistance company in Bangkok. The role grew over time into something broader than I initially expected — building SOPs from scratch, developing training materials in-house, managing a team across Thailand and Vietnam, and handling claims at every level of complexity, including working directly with the CEO to rewrite operational policy.

Before Bangkok, I spent several years in HR consulting in Belgium, and I founded and ran my own business. What those experiences share is a context where things need to work under pressure and where someone has to take ownership of making things happen.

I now work remotely with European companies — particularly in insurance, travel, and assistance — that need operational clarity, better coordination, or a senior freelancer who can walk into a complex situation and make sense of it.

I'm a native French speaker and fluent in English, with functional Spanish, which makes collaboration with European teams straightforward regardless of where they're based.

I don't lead with frameworks or methodology. I focus on the actual problem, and I stay until it's solved.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Bangkok (up to 50km)

Experience

  • April Assistance Thailand
    Operations Manager
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    January 2025 - December 2025 (11 months)
    Bangkok, Thailand
    • • Led all claims and medical assistance operations across Bangkok and Vietnam, managing a team of 16 Operations Coordinators and 2 Team Leaders
    • • Sustained operational performance through a 30% year-on-year case volume increase while maintaining SLA compliance and quality standards
    • • Rewrote Medical Assistance product Terms & Conditions in collaboration with the CEO to close underwriting exposure gaps and strengthen policy protection
    • • Identified and escalated a non-paying TPA in Australia; led the process to have them replaced and established a direct payment process as a temporary mitigating action to resolve ongoing complaints
    • • Initiated blacklisting of an Ao Nang clinic for abusive pricing practices and operating overnight stays without proper medical licence
    • • Oversaw KPI reporting, monthly claims statistics, and performance dashboards for internal and external stakeholders
    • • Managed accounting reconciliation, debt collection, and provider billing disputes
    • • Stepped-up in emergency response during the March 2025 Bangkok earthquake (7.7 magnitude), coordinating full team evacuation and ensuring business continuity
    Operations Management Claims & Assistance Coordination Process & SOP Design Strategic Initiatives Problem Solving
  • April Assistance Thailand
    Operations Supervisor
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    December 2022 - January 2025 (2 years and 1 month)
    Bangkok, Thailand
    • • Took over a team with a 60% attrition rate and no documented processes; built SOPs, training materials, onboarding programmes and evaluation frameworks from scratch
    • • Designed and implemented the company's recruitment assessment test for operations coordinator candidates
    • • Managed full claims lifecycle: medical and non-medical Emergency Medical Assistance (EMA) claims, complaints, escalations, evacuations and repatriations across Asia-Pacific
    • • Coordinated with hospitals, clinics, airlines, TPA, travel providers and international insurers on complex and remote-area cases, including provider sourcing in Sa Pa, Vietnam
    • • Delivered team training end-to-end: material creation, structured training paths, classroom delivery, and post-training evaluation
    • • Introduced KPI tracking and performance management frameworks, reducing operational inconsistency and improving team accountability
    • • Handled up to 1,000 daily emails and 100+ active cases during peak season (December–February)
    Operations Management Claims & Assistance Coordination Process & SOP Design Performance Metrics Team management
  • APRIL
    Claims Administrator
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2021 - December 2022 (1 year and 6 months)
    Bangkok, Thailand
    • • Managing and processing insurance claims.
    • • Reviewing and making sure that there is no omitted information.
    • • Answering inquiries from members or partners about claim, eligibility, covered benefits and approval status issues.
    • • Keeping thorough records of claims and follow-up on dropped cases.
    • • Entering claims into the system utilizing knowledge of Salesforce, ICD-10 codes, and medical terminology.
    • • Reading and assessing medical documents.
    Claims & Assistance Coordination Medical Terminology Client and Partner Relations customer service

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Education

  • Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
    Google
    2026
    Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
  • Human Anatomy and Medical Terminology Fundamentals
    MedCerts
    2025
    Human Anatomy and Medical Terminology Fundamentals

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