Director of Insurance & Risk Management

A leading national food and beverage organization is seeking a senior Director, Insurance & Risk Management for a short-term contract assignment supporting corporate risk and insurance work during a surge workload period. This role will help organize and advance active insurance-program priorities, including exposure-data gathering, renewal support, claims and loss information, broker and carrier coordination, certificates and policy documentation, and concise reporting for business leaders.

The best-fit candidate is a senior corporate risk or insurance professional who can step into a complex, multi-site operating environment with limited ramp time. This person should be comfortable working across finance, legal, EHS, operations, supply chain, procurement, and external insurance partners, while translating technical insurance details into practical next steps, clear status updates, and fact-based recommendations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Contract assignment: 3-6 month contract with ability to extend
• 30 hours per week- Not a full 40 hours per week.
• Remote work arrangement, but prefer hybrid in White Plains NY.
• Pay rate: $137.93 per hour.
• Eligible CRG contract employees may have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage after 30 days of employment, along with weekly pay, direct deposit, referral bonus opportunities, and support from the CRG recruiting and account management team throughout the assignment.
• 401(k) eligibility begins after 12 months as a CRG employee. Benefit eligibility, plan details, waiting periods, and employee costs should be confirmed during onboarding.
• Ability to earn state mandated sick time based on state in which candidate lives.

Responsibilities

• Support corporate insurance and risk-management workstreams for a large, multi-site business.
• Gather and organize exposure data, renewal information, claims details, loss runs, certificates, policy documents, and internal risk information.
• Coordinate with brokers, carriers, TPAs, and internal stakeholders to keep time-sensitive insurance and risk priorities moving.
• Assist with commercial insurance program administration across applicable coverage areas such as property, casualty, general liability, auto liability, workers compensation, umbrella/excess, product liability, executive risk, cyber, cargo, or marine.
• Support claims follow-up, incident documentation, loss-run review, and open-issue tracking.
• Build clear trackers, status updates, executive summaries, and action-item lists for active insurance and risk priorities.
• Identify missing data, unclear ownership, documentation gaps, or escalation points and bring practical recommendations forward.
• Operate with urgency, accuracy, discretion, and strong cross-functional communication in a remote environment.

Qualifications

• Senior corporate insurance, risk management, treasury risk, claims, broker, carrier, or enterprise-risk experience.
• Hands-on commercial insurance knowledge, preferably across property and casualty programs for a large or multi-site organization.
• Experience coordinating with brokers, carriers, TPAs, finance, legal, EHS, operations, supply chain, procurement, or plant leadership.
• Experience with insurance renewals, exposure data, loss runs, claims, certificates of insurance, policy documentation, risk registers, or RMIS tools.
• Ability to manage ambiguous, time-sensitive work without heavy direction.
• Strong executive communication skills and comfort turning risk detail into simple status updates and action plans.
• Food, beverage, CPG, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, retail, healthcare-products, or other multi-site operating-company experience is strongly preferred.
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