Sales Advisor – Insurance
Location – Manchester, M2. Office based
Salary – £27,000 per annum + Commission
Working Hours – Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 6pm.
We are looking for dedicated and driven Insurance Sales Advisors who would like to progress their sales career . Our client offers great working hours - no late evenings or weekend working and a fantastic office location in the city centre. Working as part of an encouraging and lively team environment where they offer lots of rewards and benefits for your hard work and achievements.
The role will be taking care of inbound as well as making some outbound telephone calls to insurance customers including those that have received an insurance quote but not yet purchased specialist insurance products, handling online quote referrals as well as re-engaging with lapsed customers from previous years and renewal chasers aiming to convert quotes into business.
There is no cold calling involved in the role, all leads are warm and pre-generated or current customer renewals !
What you’ll be doing:
Making outbound calls to customers – handling quotes, renewals, referrals and contacting lapsed customers with a view to converting these into business
Handling inbound calls from new and existing customers
Cross selling complementary insurance products
Quoting, binding, renewing and taking payment for policies
Answering customer questions over the telephone, live chat and email & following-up outstanding renewals
Processing quote referrals within underwriting authority (new business and renewal)
Handling mid-term adjustments and issuing renewal invitations and other administrative tasks
Our must haves:
You will have some previous experience working within a sales, telesales or telemarketing environment – either face to face or via telephone
Experience of working to sales or retention targets would be ideal
Strong objection handling and negotiating skills as well as the ability to identify and cross sell other suitable products to warm customers
A confident communicator and have a great customer focused approach
A drive and enthusiasm for achieving your targets – you will be able to earn monthly commission on achieving team and individual targets along with regular great cash and prize incentives
What’s in it for you:
A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave
Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer
There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that