An established and highly respected independent insurance brokerage is looking to recruit two ambitious Commercial Development Executives to join their growing team. This is a new business-focused role, ideal for someone who thrives on generating opportunities, meeting clients, and converting prospects into long-term commercial insurance relationships.
With an exceptional commission structure of up to 50% and uncapped earnings, alongside strong marketing support and warm leads, this role offers excellent earning potential and long-term career development.
The Role
As a Commercial Development Executive, your focus will be on generating new commercial insurance business through a combination of prospecting, client meetings, and converting warm leads generated by the marketing and telesales teams. This is a client-facing role, where you will spend around three days per week visiting clients and prospects, carrying out site surveys, understanding risk exposures, preparing insurance presentations, and securing new business.
You will be fully supported by experienced Account Handlers and broking teams, allowing you to focus on developing opportunities and closing deals.
Key Responsibilities
- Generate quotations and meetings via telephone and email (call centre or outbound sales experience would be advantageous).
- Develop and secure new commercial insurance business opportunities.
- Identify opportunities from commercial and specialist scheme prospects.
- Conduct client meetings and site visits to understand risks and insurance requirements.
- Prepare and deliver insurance presentations and proposals.
- Cross-sell and up-sell additional covers to existing commercial and scheme clients.
- Carry out annual reviews for specified client accounts where required.
- Chase and convert new business enquiries generated through the company website and marketing campaigns.
- Work closely with internal Account Handlers and broking support teams to deliver solutions for clients.
- Build and maintain a strong pipeline of new commercial prospects.
Support & Infrastructure
You will be fully supported with strong systems and marketing infrastructure, including:
- Access to 36,000+ prospects within the CRM system.
- External telemarketing support identifying renewal opportunities.
- Fully integrated marketing campaigns generating warm leads.
- Acturis back-office administration system.
- Unlimited email, phone, and contact activity via CRM integration.
- Dedicated Account Handler support.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities.
Benefits
- Competitive basic salary £27,000 – £30,000
- Exceptional commission structure – up to 50%
- Uncapped earning potential
- Cert CII & Dip CII Apprenticeship Scheme available
- Pension contributions above Auto-Enrolment requirements
- 3x Salary Death in Service
- Group Personal Accident cover
- 25 days holiday + additional service-related days
- Company events and supportive team culture
- Clear career development opportunities
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years’ experience within the UK insurance industry (essential).
- Experience within commercial insurance or a client-facing insurance sales role preferred.
- Professionals with strong sales background within insurance will be considered.
- Strong business development and relationship-building skills.
- Confident communicating with clients via telephone, email, and face-to-face meetings.
- Cert CII qualified or working towards qualifications is advantageous.
- Full UK Driving Licence (required).
- Right to work in the UK.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a brokerage where you can focus on new business generation, build a strong pipeline, and significantly increase your earnings through a market-leading commission structure.
Find out whether this could be your perfect next move. Call our friendly and experienced team on 01483 668700.
At Insure Recruitment, we partner with clients who are committed to building diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply- you could be exactly who we’re looking for.