Graduate Trainee – Marine Cargo Broker

Graduate Trainee – Marine Cargo Broker About This Role We are recruiting a Graduate Trainee to join our Marine team in Dubai. In this role, you will be supporting senior brokers in cargo placements for high-value, complex, and time-critical equipment across energy, infrastructure, construction, and industrial projects. This fast-paced role is designed to build strong technical foundations while giving you hands-on exposure to real placements, stakeholder management, and live project timelines. Key Responsibilities Learn core marine cargo and project cargo concepts, including coverage, exclusions, clauses, shipment methods, risk factors, and documentation requirements. Develop an understanding of how insurance supports complex logistics, including cross-border shipments and phased project deliveries. Draft and issue endorsements accurately and promptly, ensuring terms align with agreed coverage and placement structure. Support the preparation of market-facing and client-facing documentation, including summaries, confirmations, wording references, and supporting notes. Maintain clean records in internal systems and shared trackers to ensure a strong audit trail and smooth handovers. Track the status of multiple project cargo shipments and insurance actions simultaneously, including endorsements pending, premium status, shipment milestones, and outstanding information. Support the team by following up on premiums, reconciling what is due versus what is received, and escalating issues promptly. Help ensure timely invoicing and collection processes by liaising with internal finance and operations stakeholders. Act as a reliable point of contact for routine queries and progress updates, always with a professional and service-oriented approach. What We're Looking For A recent graduate or early-career professional with a strong interest in marine cargo, or insurance. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Law, or any related field and/or industry experience in insurance, banking, shipping, logistics or surveying. Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to documentation, tracking, and record keeping. Good numerical skills and confidence working with data and commercial information. A proactive, collaborative, and service-oriented mindset. Ability to work collaboratively within a team and follow established procedures Nice to Have Familiarity with industry terminology and processes. Internship experience. Why Join Us At Marsh, you will join a global organization with extensive resources for professional development, working alongside experienced mentors in a supportive corporate environment. This role offers an excellent foundation for a career in insurance and risk management, with clear pathways for growth and advancement. Location : Dubai Employment Type: Full-time Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.