General Insurance Business Development Assistants / Officers Jobs in Nairobi, Nyeri & Mombasa, Kenya

Position: Business Development Assistant / Officer
 

Location: Nairobi, Nyeri & Mombasa
 

Industry: General Insurance
 

Reports to: Business Development Manager

Our Client, a leading International Insurance and financial provider in Kenya and the wider Eastern Africa region, is currently looking for aBusiness Development Assistant / Officer to provide intensive contact with brokers, agents and direct client with a view to tapping and servicing commercial lines business

Key Tasks and 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.

Skills and Qualification Required

• 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, send your CV ONLY and cover letter to jobs@flexi-personnel.com before Monday 3rd February 2014. 

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