Insurance Manager
On-siteHouston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Oversee Gunvor's global insurance strategy to protect company assets, liabilities, and operations by managing corporate and local programs, optimizing risk allocation between external markets and the captive, and advising business units on risk mitigation. Maintain, improve, and renew group policies while challenging renewals on premium and cover, and administer required policies to consolidate Group insurance data. Identify, evaluate, and mitigate operational risks across entities and new projects, then notify and follow up claims with brokers and insurers to drive timely resolution. Review service competitiveness through annual stewardship reports and RFPs, while educating staff on program features and brief entities on changes. Estimate annual premiums, assess claim trends, develop loss prevention budgets, and produce regular risk reports, alongside monitoring market developments relevant to oil & gas.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in insurance, risk management, finance or related field
- Minimum 7 years' professional experience in insurance (broker or in‐house)
- Proven experience handling corporate insurance programs, renewals and claims
- Knowledge of Lloyd's and continental insurance markets
- Deep technical knowledge of insurance products, underwriting and market practice
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to negotiate coverage, terms and commission structures
- Excellent organization, stakeholder management and communication skills
- Results oriented, reliable and able to work across multiple jurisdictions
- Fluent English
Desired Qualifications
- professional insurance qualifications
- exposure to oil & gas or commodity trading sectors
- familiarity with captive insurance structures
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