Incident & Litigation Coordinator
- Maersk Global Service
- 4 - 6 Years
- Mumbai
- 4 years ago
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Job Description
Key responsibilities
6. Key Areas of Responsibility:
Team focus: This is team's primary and main responsibility and thus takes priority over other tasks.
Coordinate the flow of information and mitigate the loss arising from marine incidents, such as fire, collision, grounding and heavy weather damage.
Liaise with Operations, Commercial Teams and External network (P&I Insurers, correspondents, law firms, GA adjusters, salvage traders).
Provide information, guidance and support to internal and external stakeholders.
Handling legal disputes, negotiations, dispute resolution, recoveries against liable third parties and settlements in co-operation with the relevant internal stakeholders.
Responsibility for all court cases, collecting relevant information, costing, assessing, summarizing and maintaining the claims system
Individual Focus:
Support Incident team:
Engage with internal stakeholders to constantly improve and share best practices in relation to incident handling.
Liaise with external stakeholders to devise incident handling protocols.
Application of risk management and incident handling routines to devise and execute action plans as soon the team receives notification of an incident requiring the activation of such plans.
Identify and retain contemporaneous evidence in preparation of claims and recovery arising from the incident.
Support Legal Counsel, Mumbai
Manage and monitor development on new matters arising with focus on claims requiring the involvement of external legal counsel.
Ensure the timely engagement and assistance of frontline commercial colleagues to avoid cost exposure.
Legal loss prevention in terms of avoidance of unnecessary court actions.
Coordinate with Lawyers as and when required.
Obtain quarterly reports on the status of the cases handled by them
To ensure all documents related to court cases are duly electronically stored/physically stored for easy access/retrieval.
To maintain confidentiality/safekeeping of documents in custody.
Mapping and sharing lessons learnt while handling cases in various jurisdictions.
.Always act in a manner consistent with and loyal to the Maersk Values.
Challenge of the job/problem solving:
The person needs to be highly self-motivated with a solution driven attitude.
The person needs to be highly analytical with strong attention to detail, without losing sight of the overall bigger perspective.
To have the ability to develop a good rapport with a variety of stakeholders from different cultures, identifying and meeting their needs whilst ensuring a beneficial outcome for the carrier.
The ability to wear different hats and remain level-headed and flexible in a variety of situations.
We are looking for
Knowledge & Qualifications:
Experience required is 4-6 years.
Law graduate with proven experience in managing maritime casualties, Hull & Machinery, cargo claims, maritime litigation
Sound shipping Knowledge and understanding of operations.
In depth understanding of legal principles underpinning international trade, bills of lading and COGSA.
Training/Special Skills Required:
Future oriented decision making
Attention to Detail
Solution and result-oriented mindset towards court case handling
Is highly motivated to learn as well as share knowledge
Excellent written and spoken English
Focus on Quality
Work under pressure
Tactful and effective handling of multiple stakeholders
Ability to perform in and contribute to a team-oriented environment
Ability to analyze, structure and organize tasks and work independently
Employement Category:
Employement Type: Full timeIndustry: RecruitmentFunctional Area: LegalRole Category: Legal AdvisorRole/Responsibilies: Incident & Litigation CoordinatorContact Details:
Company: Maersk Global ServiceLocation(s): Mumbai+ View Contact
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Maersk Global Service
Maersk Group has five core businesses which include Maersk Line, APM Terminals, Maersk Oil and Maersk Drilling and Services and Other Shipping. Through these companies and several others, the Group employs roughly 89,000 people and generated 47 billion US dollars in revenue in 2013. When the Glo...
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