Area Manager (Insurance Branch Sales) - East Anglia, Essex and East London, £50,000 (package worth including car & bonus) doe including 22 days annual leave increasing to 27 after service (plus bank holidays), stakeholder pension scheme, life cover, discounted insurance rates, CII exam entry.

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We currently have an exciting senior role located in the East for our nationwide High Street Broker. Please see below for details as this opportunity suits a number of different people dependent upon your experience and sales oriented nature. A great chance to make a name for yourself or develop your current skill set within the highly competitive high street Broker Market.


The Company:
Our client is a national independent intermediary specialising in the provision of insurance and financial products for career people. They offer a full and appropriate product range that starts with students and continues through to retirement and beyond. Their existing policyholders are, therefore, predominantly career people and the aim is to provide for their every need.
They have over 1000 employees across the UK supporting the different, fully integrated, distribution channels. Their staff are trained to make decisions with the absolute minimum of bureaucracy and referral. In fact they are indeed recognised with an accreditation from the Chartered Insurance Institute for their sales staff.
Role and Key Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for approximately 20 branches throughout East London, Essex and East Anglia. Managing a team of multi-site managers each looking after up to 5 branches, they will report directly to you.

You will have responsibility for: -

" Strategy, influencing and inspiring others,
" Taking action to ensure targets are achieved and standards are improved.
" You will also be tasked with developing a high performing team.
" Developing our clients key markets and make key strategic decisions
" Evaluate personal and Team performances and where development and improvement is possible; you will be tasked with making it happen.
" You will also be responsible for finding ways to encourage our customers to buy more from our client and to keep their insurance needs there which helps to grow the client base by generating external enquiries through business to business relationships.


Skills, Qualifications and Previous Experience Required:

" You will need to be a skilled coach and motivator.
" You will also need to have strong organisational, planning, project management and recruitment skills.
" Ideally with insurance sales experience and a familiarity with compliance issues.
" You will also have strong budget management and people management skills.

Looking for in you:

" A degree calibre candidate with a minimum of 5 GCSE passes (or equivalent) at C or above including Eng and Maths.
" CII qualifications are a great advantage.
" An experienced sales manager ideally with multi-site insurance retail / broking background.
" Needs to have the ability to influence and inspire others,
" To develop and maintain a team that performs to high standards,
" To develop a team of managers to develop target market relationships, achieve consistently high standards and sales performance.
" You also need to think creatively to find solutions, evaluate processes and drive the business forward.

The Package:
Area Manager (Insurance) - East Anglia, Essex and East London, £50,000 doe including 22 days annual leave increasing to 27 after service (plus bank holidays), stakeholder pension scheme, life cover, discounted insurance rates, CII exam entry.

If this sounds like you or you would like to speak to us directly about the vacancy then please forward your CV for an immediate assessment .

As with many job types applications intake can be very high and as such it is important that applicants display their skills, abilities and suitability in a clear CV format (preferably Word). Due to the high numbers of applications received please note that if you do not hear from us within 5 working days then you have not been successful for this role. However, we may contact you in the future if you are deemed suitable for another role we have. Additional Resources accepts applications from any suitable candidate regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, race or religion but we must state that all applications must be from candidates eligible to live and work in the UK on a permanent basis.

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