Assistant Manager, Insurance

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.

Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

Summary

In this exciting role, you would be managing the claims and litigations lodged against CMA CGM Group by customers, lawyers, recovery agents, insurers for APAC arising from cargo claims and other associated claims related to cargo.

Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel Asia Pacific, you would be assisting CMA CGM’s cargo claims management process.

Main Responsibilities
- Responsible to handle direct customer claims, claims from other carriers, insurers, lawyers and recovery agents for cargo claims.
- Ensure that all cargo claims/lawsuits are responded and concluded with mínimal repercussions to operations/markets.
- Ensure that cargo claims settlements are based on best possible terms to CMA CMG based on legal principles.
- Identify potential third party liability and actively pursue cargo claims recovery
- Pursue and follow up cargo claims recovery from insurer
- Responsible for conducting cargo claims and system training as required
- Support Deputy General Counsel to co-ordinate claims responses in major incidents and quarterly reporting
- Advise various stakeholders on various situations which arise, including pre-carriage pre-delivery and post-delivery phase
- Occasional business travel may be required.

Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree - LLB and/or an LLM degree in maritime law is preferred but not a must
- 5-8 years in cargo claims managements with shipowners, ship managers or P&I Clubs and their correspondents;
- Strong knowledge about maritime laws and conventions involving cargo liabilities;
- In-depth knowledge on the container liner industry preferred;
- Able to learn the different business processes/IT Tools like SAP, Excel, Microsoft etc

**This role is opened for local employment only.

We will only consider applicants who have received, or are willing to receive by the date of recruitment, the full regimen of a WHO EUL vaccine (examples include Pfizer-BioNTech/COMIRNATY, Moderna, Sinovac-CoronaVac, and AstraZeneca). Proof of vaccination will be required.

**Salary package (local) & job title shall commensurate with experience.

**Kindly note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

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