Position: Business Development Assistants (12 Positions)
Location: Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nyeri, Eldoret
Industry: Insurance
Our client, a leading Life Assurance group in the region with well-established operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania seeks to recruit Business Development Assistants. The ideal candidates will be responsible for providing intensive contact with brokers, agents and direct clients with a view to tapping and servicing commercial lines business.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
- Providing intensive contact with brokers, agents and direct client with a view to tapping and servicing commercial lines business
- 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 information
- 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 and preparing regular management reports
- Gathering customer service feedback and reporting on intellectual and operational issues raised by clients
Qualifications and Competencies
- A degree in a business or social science related field
- At least 2 years experience in marketing of general solutions to corporate and organized groups
- MUST have good understanding of Kenya insurance market
- Good communications skills, both written and verbal
- A strong team player
- Good organizational and time-management skills
- Self driven and able to work with minimal supervision
- Good negotiation skills and persuasiveness.
- Proven presentation skills
To apply, send your CV ONLY and cover letter to jobs@flexi-personnel.com before Friday 13th September 2013. Clearly indicate the position applied for and the minimum salary expectation on the subject line.
