Commercial Insurance Specialist
Old Mutual
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identify and execute on innovative methods to build own insurance portfolio.
- Prospect for new clients through networking, cold-calling and door to door canvassing.
- Manage and drive portfolio profitability and growth by ensuring that on-going service and support (amendments, renewals, and claims) provided to clients is delivered on time and improves the quality of the business underwritten.
- Conduct a comprehensive risk evaluation for the client.
- Provide solutions to clients by selling non-life products aligned to their needs.
- Continuously build client base to secure future portfolio growth.
- Identify and action on cross & up selling opportunities across all products.
- Sell according to agreed targets for the day, week and month.
- Maintain minimum agreed quote volumes.
- Maintain a minimum agreed quote to sales ratio.
- Maintain an agreed NTU – and Cancellation ratio.
- Perform after sales service tasks according to allocated portfolio of customers.
- Monitor and resolve escalated client queries and complaints timeously.
- Manage relationships with clients and ensure that Service Level Agreement standards are met or exceeded in all engagements.
- Retain existing business including renewal discussion in line business process and FAIS Code of Conduct.
- Create collaborative relationships with other departments (underwriting/pricing, and claims) to determine process improvements designed to enhance the customer experience and create easy, value peace of mind.
- Manage time and workloads to ensure that deadlines and targets are met.
- Manage the end-to-end customer experience for new and existing business by providing first line support to resolve queries.
- Proactively suggest improvements in service and relations where applicable.
- Contribute to a service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional service.
- Proactively ensure the use of time, resources, money, materials or equipment is in line with organizational policies and procedures.
- Comply with corporate governance policies, procedures and standards.
- Operate within agreed mandates.
- Align own behavior with the organization’s culture and values.
- Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues and team members.
- Collaborate and work with the OMI team to deliver required service levels.
- Actively participate in the OMI team to ensure functional balanced scorecard objectives are achieved.
- Ensure achievement of own performance objectives.
- Actively participate in own professional development and career path.
- Grade 12 or National Senior Certificate.
- FAIS Compliant in Non-life Commercial product category.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in non-life insurance.