Account Executives
Insurance
Guildford

Account Executive  (Enterprise SME)

Ref: 4300| Posted: 5th Nov 2024

A rare next step opportunity to boost your insurance career.

Perfect for a passionate, motivated and talented commercial account executive (with at least 2 years’ experience) seeking that next step in your career. You’ll be crucial to growing and exciting SME focussed enterprise division, within a thriving and fast-growing company, based in a highly desirable area of Surrey. Working with a fully supportive, highly experienced manager, developing exceptional skills and learning from the very best. This is your chance for an insurance career with genuine growth opportunity, greater autonomy, better flexibility, healthy commission and a stronger work/life balance.

Key duties

As a commercial account executive, your key duties will focus on revenue generation: 

  • Proactively generate new business working with new and existing introducers
  • Ensuring a steady stream of new business leads  
  • Provide clients with comprehensive and price-comparative insurance.
  • Ensuring timely renewals and healthy renewal/retention ratio; and 
  • Proactively exploiting cross-selling opportunities.

Required experience

  • To thrive in the role, you’ll need extensive (at least 2 years’) commercial product liability experience and have worked in a SME commercial new business focussed role.
  • Acturis broking systems experience is highly desirable.

What the role needs - crucial qualities

  • To succeed, you’ll be an innate relationship builder – effortlessly developing and maintaining strong, effective relationships with clients, insurers, underwriters and colleagues.
  • You’ll also bring excellent existing links with introducers.
  • Strong commercial new business focussed experience, you appreciate the importance of delivering outstanding client service.
  • You’re driven by meeting (and preferably exceeding) clients’ needs. 
  • As a natural entrepreneur, you can identify and exploit commercial opportunities.
  • You’ve built a proven sales track record and can demonstrate that you’ve achieved measurable growth in your current position.

Personal skills

  • An experienced and tenacious commercial account executive, you’ll develop your skills to an exciting new level. 
  • To thrive, you’ll need to be a confident and accomplished communicator, by phone and face-to-face.
  • Highly organised, you’re great at time management, rigorous at keeping on top of your (timely) admin.
  • As you’ll assume greater autonomy and responsibility, accuracy and attention to detail will be crucial.
  • You’ll also need to be expert at organising your own workload and managing your own diary. 

Required qualifications

  • You must be Cert CII qualified, working towards it, or motivated to do so. 
  • Diploma in Insurance would be useful but is not essential.

Career development

  • There’ll be full support for professional development with on-the-job training and external professional development courses.

Benefits include

  • Joining a friendly and outgoing team, minimum office-based requirement is 3 in the office 2 from home. (flexible dependant on the needs of the business)
  • Highly attractive base salary and quarterly commission incentive (up to 35% uncapped commission, over threshold)  

• • You’ll need a full driving licence, and it would be useful if you have access to a car for business use.

Please apply for the role by submitting your most up-to-date CV.  

At Insure Recruitment, we work with clients who are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification or criteria in the above description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be exactly what we’re looking for in this or other roles.