Our Company: 

Congo Brands is at the epicenter of where consumer demand meets product development. Through brand partnerships with lead influencers, we are afforded an inside look at what consumers truly desire. E-commerce becomes the laboratory for consumer feedback and serves as a data pool for future retail endeavors. Congo Brands is a health and wellness brand that sells supplements, fitness snacks, hydration drinks, energy drinks, and more through ecommerce and retail partnerships. Congo Brands houses some of the World’s most noted brands including Alani Nu, Prime Hydration, Prime Energy, and 3D Energy only to include more in the coming years. Congo Brands is on pace to become one of the World’s most noted consumer product brand companies, with revenue growth increasing exponentially year over year. Congo Brand’s goal is to be the go-to ‘Better for You Brand’ for everything from nutritional supplements, energy drinks, snacks and much more. 

The Role:

This role will manage the global risk management function, to reduce and/or mitigate financial and operational risk, while providing key insights to the business leaders, to support risk weighted decision making. The position will oversee global risk assessment and recommend cost effective mitigation strategies, such as process changes, 3rd party insurance, or a mix of the two. The position will manage brokers, underwriters, and TPM’s to deliver best in class value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with senior management to strategize and build out the global risk management function, including:
• staffing,
• policy & procedure development,
• assessment of 3rd party vendors (insurance brokers, underwriters, TPM’s, etc.)
• Manage relationships and oversee activities of global and local insurance brokerage vendors and insurance underwriters.
• Conduct regular policy reviews, research, and analyze claims and loss trends, review actuarial estimations.
• Gather, coordinate, organize and analyze insurance underwriting data to prepare proposal forms, manage broker/insurer meetings, respond to underwriting queries, etc. necessary for insurance underwriting processes to ensure the proper presentation of risks to underwriters for new policies and renewals.
• Monitor existent metrics, identify, and develop new metrics, and analyze them in partnership with internal teams and external vendors to identify process and system improvement opportunities.
• Prepare periodic senior management reports (minimum annually) providing the state of the global risk management and insurance program.
• Research and implement global cost reduction opportunities.