Insurance Agent Waterford

Insurance Agent Waterford

by | Oct 22, 2024

New opportunity for a Personal Lines Insurance Executive to join a well-known leaading insurance brand in Waterford.

This is a permanent position with a salary of €34,000 on offer with an excellent commission structure in place for additional earnings.

There are also excellent benefits and opportunities for growth and development.

The Job:

Sales and Activity Management:

  • Work with team manager on call flows and volumes of calls.
  • Dealing with web and queries from clients and close out sales across a suite of products.
  • Coach customers through the sales process, providing benefits and covers
  • Outbound to potential customers to advise of products and covers available and close out sale.
  • Work on specific campaigns with the team manager on driving additional sales
  • Customer Relationship Management:
  • Build effective working relationships with all customers by establishing trust, anticipating needs, sharing information and meeting commitments
  • Deal with any issues that customers may have with queries, quotes etc.

Customer Service:

  • Portray a professional image to meet or exceed customer service standards
  • Take personal responsibility for delivering the highest level of accuracy and quality in your work
  • Deal with requests and enquiries from customers, staff and management in a professional and timely manner

Team Collaboration:

  • Working as part of a team environment to ensure all customer needs are met
  • Working together to ensure the team is on track to meet monthly and yearly targets Compliance:
  • Work with the team manager and compliance teams in ensuring that quality of file records meets prescribed standards

Requirements:

  • Preferable to have a strong sales or customer service background
  • At least 1 years relevant Insurance experience
  • Compliant with the Central Bank Minimum Competency Requirements – APA (Personal General Insurance) as a minimum requirement with a willingness to progress to further educational qualifications as required.
  • An enthusiastic and flexible approach
  • The ability to work in a fast paced, constantly evolving environment.
  • Strong IT skills. Relay/Applied knowledge an advantage

Person Specification:

  • Possess a can-do attitude and be open to rapid and evolving changes as our digital journey progresses.
  • The ability to prioritize workloads and adapt to unforeseen events
  • A good degree of personal organization and a structured approach to time and resource management
  • Commitment to their own professional development
  • Sales Driven, enjoys fast paced sales activity.
  • Customer focused, working always with the customer first approach in line with the companies culture
  • Demonstrate strong Product & Technical Knowledge with willingness to become a product expert

Business Development Manager Tipperary/Waterford

Business Development Manager Tipperary/Waterford

by | Sep 23, 2024

Excellent new opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager for a field sales role based in Waterford/Tipperary

  • Permanent
  • Salary up to €50,000
  • Excellent Commission for high performers
  • Excellent benefits

Job Purpose

Selling into new business opportunities via pre-booked appointments that are set up by the telemarketing and the services team and opportunities from within your own referral network. Success is measured by the number of businesses acquired and the value of the contracts.

Job Overview

An empathic listener with great commercial acumen who can build trusting relationships with SME business owners in the region. If you enjoy working with entrepreneurs to understand their challenges and deliver value added solutions, then this is the role for you.

This is a field based, target focussed, high energy and highly rewarding role.

The product is Ireland’s best advisory and consulting service that supports business owners in all aspects of employee management.

The ideal candidate will be local to the region and have a proven track record in sales and new business logo acquisition.

Industry experience is NOT required as full training is provided, but experience in executing a consultative ‘value based’ selling style and having an extensive pool of prospective clients is a pre-requisite.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

  • Deliver consultative in-person sales meetings with 4 SMEs daily, most appointments are pre-booked by an office-based sales support team.
  • Use your professional/informal networks to generate leads to augment the office generated leads.
  • Work with the Head of events to deliver a monthly seminar to business owners so as to maximise sales opportunities. E.g. co-hosted events with the Chamber of commerce and industry
  • Develop alternative sources of prospects by building referral partnership with 3rd parties.
  • Achieve quarterly sales targets.
  • Accurately build, manage, and maintain your sales pipeline.
  • Be the best representation of the brand.

Job Requirements

  • Strong track record of working in B2B sales with a high volume of clients.
  • Experience with selling a service preferably to SME’s and understanding the needs of SME business owners.
  • Strong commercial acumen and experience building client relationships.
  • Knowledge of and local to the region with a proven track record in sales and new business logo acquisition.
  • A highly energetic person with drive to seek new business and motivated by sales and targets.