The Role.
As a Commercial Insurance Sales Account Executive, you will look after clients with premiums up to and including £8,000, where a relationship is still needing to be maintained, but physical visits are not a necessity. Along with the relationship management piece, you will be responsible for a new business. Coming into this role you will be no stranger to looking for opportunities to grow your book of business.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Contact potential customers (known as ‘leads’) via any medium deemed appropriate (mostly telephone and e-mail) to obtain their risk information for the purposes of passing these on to a sales advisor to quote on and convert into a live policy for the business.
- To answer questions accurately and truthfully posed by leads in relation to their insurance needs, obtaining answers where necessary from more senior staff members.
- Handle incoming communication(s) from both leads and/or insurers in a timely manner, avoiding delays, either by answering their needs or passing them through to the appropriate staff member.
- Processing sales post quotations by a sales advisor including collection of premium(s) and any details required to complete the processing of a policy for passing over to the administration team.
- Chasing potential customers using the diary and communication(s) systems to maximise sales for the business.
- Keeping up to date with the organisation’s products, services and strategies.
- Ensuring that the company is represented in a professional and courteous manner at all times.
- Performing any other ad-hoc duties as may be required of this role.
Experience: - 2 Years working within a similar role or an aspiring executive.
- Demonstrable growth of book of business.
- Commercial insurance background
- Articulate with strong client and stakeholder management abilities.
- Market and Insurer knowledge with good market relationships.
- Experience & a strong understanding of FCA compliance & the ability to work to regulatory processes.
Further informationAs well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -
- Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
- Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
- Company pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages
- A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
- Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
- Referral schemes
- Discounted rates on PIB products
- We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
- If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
- We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
- PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
- Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
- PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.
We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business. If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.
We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Contract Details
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Salary Type: per annum
- Total Applications: 1
- Last Date: 21/02/2025