Marine Risk Engineer

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Whether it's aircraft, international business, offshore wind parks or Hollywood film productions, Allianz Commercial has an extensive range of risks covered when it comes to protecting businesses.
We are looking for an experienced Marine Risk Engineer to be based in our London office, who has expertise in all types of Marine risk: Cargo, Hull and in particular Marine Liability, and Ports and Terminals.
Your Team
As part of the Allianz Commercial global Allianz Risk Consulting team and reporting to the Regional Head of Allianz Risk Consulting UK, you will belong to a small international team of Marine Engineering experts who provide loss-control expertise, support and assistance to colleagues and customers, to assist Allianz Marine Underwriting in risk selection and retention.
This position requires strong relationship skills to develop and maintain professional working relationships both outside Allianz among customers and brokers, but also internally with our underwriters, claims professionals and Risk Engineers.
Full fluency in business English is key, but we are keen for applicants to have an additional language.
The Impact You Will Have
You will be responsible for reviewing and assessing submissions in the Marine market to support our underwriting products, with a particular focus on our growth areas of Marine Liability and Ports and Terminals.
You will co-ordinate and monitor the loss control activity and servicing of assigned accounts, undertake loss-control survey work, and provide risk consultancy on existing and prospective accounts. With your diplomatic and commercial people skills, you will develop and maintain excellent working relationships with Allianz Underwriting, Distribution and Claims teams, as well as with clients and brokers. Your passion for Marine risks across the board will lead you to constantly enhance your technical expertise, which you will share with your peers.
Some of your specific responsibilities could include:
Supporting the Underwriting team in assessing market submissions for new and existing businessCompleting desk top reviews and risk assessments (pre & post loss) for underwriting, evaluating and summarising exposures and controls, for Cargo, Hull, Ports and Terminal Surveys Working with underwriting, claims, the client and the broker, where appropriate, to develop customised loss-control programmes Writing and reviewing reports (eg. Loss-control reports and bulletins, recommendations) in a timely mannerSurveying client operations, obtaining data, identifying hazards and discussing findings with appropriate partiesAppointing 3rd parties to ensure adequate contracts and controls are in place, agreeing on budgets and monitoring quality and any issuesParticipating in regional and international projects to improve systems and processes, and to spread best practice regarding Marine risk among both internal and external stakeholdersWhat You'll Bring to the Role
You are a Marine Risk Engineer with significant experience across the board, ideally with particular expertise in Marine Liability and Ports and Terminals.
Holding a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate subjectExperience in industry with responsibilities in operations, process design, engineering technical support or other related areasAt ease with IT and other digital and data processing tools Good understanding of the specialty Insurance sectorNative-level English and fluency in at least one additional languageAdaptable with excellent organisational and communication skills, at ease in a multinational context with a wide variety of stakeholdersPerform well under pressure and able to meet challenging deadlinesExcellent writing and presentation skillsWillingness to travel internationally36584 | Risk Management | Professional | Allianz Commercial | Full-Time | PermanentWhat's in it for you?
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Allianz Commercial is the Allianz Group brand serving the world's largest consumer brands and major industry players through to family-owned enterprises forming the backbone of nations' economies. We bring together the corporate multinational business of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty and the commercial business of national Allianz Property & Casualty entities and provide both traditional and alternative risk transfer solutions, outstanding risk consulting and Multinational services as well as seamless claims handling.
As a key strategic player in the Allianz Group network, Allianz Commercial is present in over 200 countries and in 2022 generated more than €19 billion gross premium. Learn more about careers at Allianz Commercial by clicking here.
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Allianz is an equal opportunity employer, and therefore welcomes applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic. Diversity of thinking is an important part of our company culture.
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