Business Development Assistant Job in Kenya

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:
  • 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