Junior Commercial Insurance Attorney
Junior Commercial Insurance Attorney
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Job Description
Cognia Law is looking for a Junior Commercial Insurance Attorney for a Fixed Term contract. This is a great opportunity to step into international work supporting a global client on commercial insurance matters.
Role Description
This is a Fixed Term contract position supporting one of Cognias international clients directly through our Flex offering. The role sits within the clients legal function and focuses on commercial insurance matters. Youll be embedded in their team and expected to operate with a good level of independence managing your own workload while collaborating remotely with international stakeholders. A solid understanding of insurance-related legal work a proactive mindset and confidence working without close day-to-day supervision are key.
Company Profile
Cognia seamlessly extends corporates banks and law firms legal capability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Our goal is to connect the legal sector moving it from a siloed approach to integrated partnerships. We help in-house legal teams by bringing simplicity to complex matters and replacing broken procedures with efficient processes.
Cognia is a Chambers-ranked law company which integrates how legal services are provided so our team partners clients and communities thrive together with people at the heart of what we do. We encourage our people to bring their whole self to work and focus on enabling them to realise their full potential.
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Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for arranging maintaining and managing the insurance protection for the organisation.
- Data gathering and management of information from internal directorates and working with insurance brokers to facilitate annual renewals.
- Managing and responding to internal and external insurance claims and queries received from directorates across the organisation.
- Handling escalated insurance and claims queries including contract-related and disputed matters.
- Managing claims litigation and supporting the Legal and Risk teams with litigation updates and strategy.
- Drafting and maintaining internal insurance guidance notes and learning materials to support organisational understanding of insurance matters.
- Working closely with procurement and teams initiating new activities outside of the clients ordinary operations to ensure insurance requirements are identified understood and appropriately addressed.
- Supporting strategic projects that involve insurance risks or require bespoke cover.
- Assisting in streamlining insurance services by assessing trends in incoming queries and recommending process improvements.
- Project management reporting and tracking of the insurance renewal process internal claims and queries received from internal directorates.
Due to the project being fixed term we are only considering applicants who are available with no notice period.
Requirements
- BA LawLLBLLM orBCom Lawdegree from a reputable institution is required.
- Minimum 2 years experience in insurance/claims management.
- Experience in insurance claims including litigation and high-value matters.
- Contract management experience and understanding of contract risk and ability to advise on insurance-related contractual provisions.
- Experience in the charity or non-profit sector (beneficial).
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work under pressure.
- Comfortable with building strong internal stakeholder relationships.
- Organised and detail-oriented.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Employment Type
Contract
