Position:
Business Development Assistant
Reports to: Business Development, Manager
Job Purpose: To provide intensive contact with brokers, agents and direct client with a view to tapping and servicing commercial lines business.
Main Responsibilities: Reports to: Business Development, Manager
Job Purpose: To provide intensive contact with brokers, agents and direct client with a view to tapping and servicing commercial lines business.
- Tapping and
servicing commercial lines business.
- Promptly providing
and sending competitive quotations to prospects.
- Providing risk
details for purpose of underwriting.
- Consulting on
the most effective cover for a particular need, while taking a number of
factors into account.
- Setting up
meetings, preparing and delivering presentations to potential clients.
- Developing and
maintaining good working relationships with intermediaries and existing
customers.
- Ensuring
credibility with clients by maintaining detailed knowledge of current
market conditions and competitors' products.
- Delivering good
customer service by responding swiftly to queries and concerns from
clients.
- Providing
management with market feedback and intelligence.
- Sending out
renewal instructions two months in advance.
- Maintaining a
regular and accurate updated database of all prospective and closed
business and submitting a monthly report to managers.
- Ensuring strict
adherence to practices, procedures and policy stipulated in the business
development operational manual including the Code of Ethics.
- Maintaining and
updating all forms of business contacts.
- Gathering
customer service feedback and reporting on intellectual and operational
issues raised by clients.
- Preparing
regular management reports.
Requirements:
Prospective
candidates will possess or demonstrate the following qualities:
- An undergraduate
degree in a business or social science related field.
- At least 2
years’ experience in marketing of general solutions to corporates and
organized groups.
- Good business
sense.
- Appreciable
understanding of the Kenya insurance market, the prevailing business
environment and products by the competition.
- Good
communications skills, both written and verbal.
- Self-motivated
but able to work as part of a team.
- Good
organizational and time-management skills.
- Positive
attitude, self-motivated, self-driven and able to work with minimal
supervision.
- Good negotiation
skills and persuasiveness.
- Confidence
presenting to large groups of people.
- Trustworthiness
and discretion when handling confidential information.
- A smart
appearance and professional manner.
To
apply kindly follow this link http://bit.ly/12ouW09 and profile yourself before
22nd July 2013