Sales / Account Executive

Sales / Account Executive

Location: Leeds (LS1) , Leeds View map Salary: Unspecified Date posted: 22/06/2012 13:00 Job type:Permanent Company: Thistle Contact: Sharon Dcunha Ref: Totaljobs/IRC1556 Job ID: 53894247

Tenant Risks is part of Thistle Insurance Services Ltd., a JLT Group Company. We are a specialist Financial Inclusion division. The division is a market leader in providing insurance solutions especially Home Contents Insurance for residents of Housing Associations and Local Authorities who are on low incomes. We currently manage arrangements for approaching 750 social housing providers.

Thistle Insurance Services is a full service Managing General Underwriter providing complete underwriting and claims services on behalf of selected insurers. As a business, we create, distribute and manage non-advised insurance products and facilities into niche or privileged access segments of the consumer, small business and not for profit sectors.

We employ 325 staff across the UK at offices in Belfast, Bracknell, Coventry, Gloucester, Leeds, London, Liverpool, Maidenhead, and Wolverhampton.

We are particularly well known in areas such as:

Leisure - caravans, holiday homes, youth clubs, adventure activity providers.

Housing - social housing and its contents for local authorities or housing associations

Online insurance for personal items including bicycles, musical instruments and cameras

Wholesale insurance placements in the Lloyd's and London.

Thistle is part of Jardine Lloyd Thompson, an international Group of Risk Specialists and Employee Benefits Consultants and one of the largest companies of its type in the world. Employing over 5500 people in 36 countries we provide our employees with a distinctive opportunity to be part of a business which is large enough to be a significant force in the marketplace but small enough to focus on the individual

Maintain a strong pipeline of prospects, assist in achieving the units new business target and overall budget;

Promote the profile of the business through, for example, attendance and support at exhibitions and trade fairs, regular communications and meetings with clients and prospects and development of strategic alliances with professional and trade bodies;

Develop a strong relationship with existing clients and provide all necessary support to enable them to reduce the number of uninsured tenants;

Maintain strong working relationships with existing prospects, maintaining renewal retention and introducing growth plans;

Develop a good working relationship with insurers, ensuring all client and policy holder queries and problems are successfully resolved;

Maintain annual continuing professional development, awareness of trading conditions, prospect information.

Essential:

Previous sales and or account executive experience

Good relationship management skills,

GCSE grade A to C (or equivalent) in English and Maths

Ability to work independently and use initiative

Enthusiastic and self-motivating

Please note that the role will involve nationwide travel and you must therefore possess a full UK driving licence.

Desired:

Experience of the social housing sector

A Levels (or equivalent)

ACII

As you would expect from a company that is part of the JLT Group, we offer highly attractive reward packages. We are aware of how integral our employees are to our progress, so we ensure that everyone shares in that success. Your remuneration package will be determined by your individual contract of employment.

Typical benefits include:

Annual bonus

Employee share schemes

Flexible benefit scheme ("Choices")

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension plan

Life assurance

Private healthcare scheme

Employee assistance programme

Assistance with studying for Professional Qualifications

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we would like to encourage applications from all the community, irrespective of race, religion, gender, disability, age or sexual orientation.