£25K/yr
Southend-on-Sea, England
Permanent, Variable

Sales Executive

Posted by OnetoOne Personnel.

Sales Executive

We are proud to be working with a leading insurance provider who are looking to grow their Sales team.

As an experienced Sales Executive you will conduct professional inbound and outbound communication with clients, offering new and renewable products. All data is warm and will either be an expiring customer or a customer that has opted in to being contacted.

Key responsibilities:

  • Proactively renew existing policies in line with their renewal dates.
  • Responsible for making high volumes of outbound calls.
  • Increase customer loyalty
  • Find creative solutions to problems
  • Answer telephone calls from potential customers who have been solicited through advertisements
  • Understand compliance and consequences
  • Providing excellent and friendly customer service
  • Maintain the relevant diary systems to ensure and manage customer contact times
  • Record names, addresses, purchases, and reactions of prospects contacted
  • Adjust sales scripts to better target the needs and interests of customers
  • Telephone, email or write letters to respond to correspondence from customers or to follow up initial sales contacts
  • Provide additional support and day to day account management to allocated customers
  • Ensure product explanation is accurate and full
  • Inform customers of full closing statements
  • Liaise with other departments to resolve customer queries and assist with retention of business
  • Other reasonable duties as required.

Regulatory Conduct Requirements

In addition to the responsibilities outlined, this role is subject to the following Conduct Rules which are applied to individuals in firms authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.?

Skills & Competencies:

  • Comfortable conversing with happy, unaware and disgruntled customers.
  • Ability to self-manage/motivate.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Receive feedback in a positive manner and demonstrate positive attitude at all times.
  • Ability to multi-task, work under time and completion deadlines.

Personal attributes:

  • As a confident self-starter, you will have the ability to build effective relationships, positively influencing colleagues and clients to become a ‘trusted advisor' and valued team member.
  • With drive and determination to achieve goals, you will have a demonstrable track record of sales target overachievement in B2C sales.

Knowledge & Experience:

  • Experience in a FCA regulated environment is preferred but not essential
  • Sales experience is not essential and in fact the only real must is hard work and professionalism as full training will be provided
  • Good understanding of voice/soft skill
  • Excellent Word and Excel skills

The Package

  • Basic salary £25,000 plus commission (realistic £35,000 OTE, uncapped).
  • You would be working Monday to Fridays only (no weekends or bank holidays), 35 hours per week on a rotating shift pattern of 9am to 5pm one week and 11am to 7pm (12pm – 8pm on Tuesday) the next.

If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you please call or email your CV to or

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