Insurance Associate at Apollo Agriculture

About The Role

We are seeking an Insurance Associate to own the execution of insurance initiatives in the company. Our core products have reached ~100,000 customers and we are well-positioned to expand our product portfolio into new crops and products that help farmers further increase their profits, access new markets, and mitigate the risks they face. To mitigate the risks faced by our customers, we have worked with our insurance partners to provide Area Yield Insurance for our maize farmers, MPCI for our tea farmers, indemnity cover for our dairy farmers, and credit life insurance for all our customers. A successful insurance associate will ensure all claims are processed on time, premiums are paid within time, analyze claims data and advise leadership on changes that can be done, documentation of all insurance claims, and working on training Apollo staff on the different types of insurance offered.

Your Day-to-day

• Work with the agronomy report to ensure crop development reports are up-to date
• Conduct field research on the different types of insurance would be beneficial to the farmers
• Conduct field visits to areas where perils have been reported such as drought, floods and hailstones, and documenting them
• Submission of insurance reports and documentations
• Work with other departments like agronomy to contact Golden crop cuts
• Work with the repayment lead in designing insurance product structures to meet the needs of Apollo and farmers
• Follow up with insurance partners for insurance bookings, claims, and escalations
• Analyse insurance claims and advising the repayments lead on changes that could be made to ensure farmer’s risks are taken care of
• Work with repayment and collections lead to design insurance training for farmers, apollo staff to increase insurance literacy

You Are

• A graduate of actuarial science or any other related course
• Knowledgeable about insurance with 2+ years of experience
• Tirelessly hardworking and hungry to learn
• Strong at data analysis in Excel or Google Sheets and have interest in learning SQL
• Clear communicator who can express complex ideas clearly both verbally and in writing
• Considerate listener who takes the time to deeply understand customers, teammates, and partners
• Ability to think with the end in mind while designing agricultural products, being able to built farmer product maps
• Ability to run tests and experiments, gather feedback across teams and provide insights which will enable insurance products iteration/improvements to better serve the farmer needs
• To become the farmer’s “advocate” balancing between what the farmer needs and what is commercially viable and scalable for the company

We

• Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers
• Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise
• Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve
• Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree
• Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth
• Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment
• Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package including equity
• Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect
• Are excited to hear from you!