Group Insurance Manager - Logistics & Marine Liability

Role Overview

Group Insurance Manager - Logistics & Marine Liability at DP World. The role will be a focal point of Group Insurance activities for Logistics and Freight Forwarding, covering regions including Middle East & Africa, Australasia, Subcontinent and UAE.

Company Overview

DP World is a global logistics organization with a portfolio including Logistics and Freight Forwarding operations across multiple regions.

Role Purpose

To manage Group Insurance activities for the DP World Logistics business, ensuring a coordinated insurance strategy is executed across Logistics and Marine Liability while reporting to the Group Director Manager for Logistics. The role works as part of the Group Insurance team to manage global insurances such as Property, Liability, Cyber, Travel and D&O, ensuring quality, cost-effective and compliant insurance policies are provided to each operation.

Key Responsibilities

Insurance Contract Management

• Provide the business with insurance assistance reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts for logistics and marine lines.
• Manage and administer appropriate global and operation-specific insurance contracts to ensure sound and cost-effective cover is in place.
• Interpret and advise on contractual drafting operating within internal contractual procedure, providing clear risk transfer implications and pricing advice to the business on a contract-by-contract basis.
• Escalate through Group Insurance reporting channels as appropriate and act as a referral point for Regional Teams as per Group Insurance internal protocol.
• Manage the consolidation of newly acquired companies into Group Insurance programmes, including timelines, contractual risk exposure assessment, evaluation of existing insurance arrangements, and communication of coverage and DP World procedures to Business Units and Regional Teams.

Insurance Products & Strategy

• Promote and advise the business on insurance products, including Shipper's Interest and Cargo War Insurance.
• Provide statistics to management as required.
• Advise on best practices through workshops, presentations and training programmes for local, regional and global colleagues, as well as external stakeholders.

Cost Control & Administration

• Support the control of Group Insurance costs by ensuring renewal processes are timely and robust, including information gathering and contractual reviews to validate declarations of exposure and data.
• Assist with market submissions.
• Monitor premium payment status, certificate issuance and related reporting, producing monthly statistics as required.
• Respond to insurance coverage queries from Business Units and Regional Teams.

Claims & Market Management

• Provide insurers with timely declarations and submissions as necessary during the policy year.
• Analyse and interact with the market, and protect DP World's interests.
• Monitor and manage claims under designated policies, coordinating large losses and analysing claims trends.
• Engage proactively with the business.
• Work closely with TPAs, brokers and insurers.
• Support loss prevention initiatives.
• Address insurer concerns.
• Produce claims statistics and regularly validate claims estimates.

Stakeholder & Leadership

• Act as an ambassador for DP World at all times, promoting and demonstrating positive behaviours in harmony with DP World's Principles, values and culture.
• Ensure the highest level of safety is applied in all activities.
• Understand and follow DP World's Code of Conduct and Ethics policies.
• Provide timely day-to-day support to Regional Teams and senior management.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience

• Transport, logistics or marine liability insurance experience.
• Minimum 3 years industry experience, ideally within a P&I Club or law firm specialising in Shipping/Transportation.
• Law degree preferable.
• Marine liability legal knowledge, with ability to provide contractual review advice across a broad range of contracts, including project finance, due diligence and commercial agreements, as it relates to insurance and indemnity provisions.
• Understanding of cargo insurance.
• Strong desire to learn and adapt to the evolving needs of the logistics sector, with proven interest in marine liability insurance or cargo.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong Excel and analytical skills.
• Strong PowerPoint and Word document presentation skills.
• Negotiation skills, both verbal and written.
• Project management skills.