Job Title: Team Manager - Commercial Schemes & Affinities Location: Burgess Hill
Hours: 8.45am- 5.00pm Monday - Friday
Salary: Up to £40, 000 per annum plus generous benefits package
An exciting opportunity for a Commercial Insurance expert to play a leading role within an independent insurance broker
Reporting to the Head of the department, you will be responsible for co-managing our large and successful Schemes & Affinities Team in Burgess Hill who provide bespoke solutions to a broad spectrum of SME and large clients in the Sports, Recruitment & Payroll, Property Owners, Trade Credit and Flexible Benefits market space.
Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Create a positive and productive working atmosphere
- Act as the key point of contact for your team with complex queries and escalations.
- Achieve organisational goals / objectives, maintain performance standards, and deliver successful results
- Motivate your team through coaching and mentoring strategies and techniques.
- Implement effective sales plans for our specialist areas.
- Build lasting relationships with Clients and Insurers.
- Attend regular meetings with other key stakeholders within the team and business providing regular strategic updates and feedback.
Person Specification:
You'll have built up a solid profile within Commercial Insurance and will either have previous managerial experience looking for a new challenge, or you're looking for your next step up into a management role.
- An in-depth understanding of the technicalities, and challenges of commercial insurance
- A CII accreditation and an interest in continuing to develop.
- Creating a positive and productive working atmosphere
- Achieving organisational goals / objectives, maintaining performance standards, and delivering successful results through others
- Have a positive mindset towards sales and how to implement effective sales plans for our specialist areas
- .Ability to build lasting relationships with Clients and Insurers.
- Leadership qualities, mentoring skills and a good track record of supporting the training and developing of others people.
- Familiarity of setting and monitoring targets.
- A good understanding of delivering quality and compliance.
- Confidence, communication and charisma.
- Organisation, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Intuitive thinking and strong decision making skills.
- Agile and intuitive thinking; an ability to make decisions quickly and confidently.
- Previous management experience desirable
- Previous experience of using the Acturis platform desirable (full training provided
- Ideally (although not essential), knowledge in SME and Corporate clients and related products.