Telephone Sales Agent – Dublin

RSA is one of the world's leading general insurers and a FTSE 100 Company with a heritage dating back over 300 years, and we are proud of it!
Our products are high quality and innovative – just ask our 20 million customers in over 100 countries.
We provide a great service to our customers when they need us most. That’s why we’re always looking at new and innovative ways in which to improve our service for our customers. We set new standards in the industry every day.

Exciting new opportunities for an experienced Telephone Sales Agent to join our growing team in Dublin office. 

This excellent role for a sales person who has previous knowledge within financial services and is looking to build on their career aspiration.

This role reports directly to Director of Broker Sales.  This Telephone Sales Agent will be responsible for growing the RSA intermediated portfolio by developing strategic growth plans and actions, identifying opportunities, generating new sales leads and contacts, building positive broker and key stakeholder relationships, negotiation, closing new business submissions and renewals and maintaining extensive knowledge of market conditions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Activity based selling for ‘Small’ segment brokers
• Strategic account planning & management planning and execution of actions to become a trusted adviser
• Alignment of distribution service with Broker segmentation analysis
• Market and competitor analysis
• Broker proposition development
• Capture of broker data and intelligence to advices on commercial decisions
• Sales negotiations and closing of NB submissions and renewals
• Broker relationship management
• Setting Broker’s objection, issue & complaint handling
• Creating & development of new positive trading relationship
• Selling required rate & retention at product level
• New product launch /initiatives per product 

Requirements:

• APA or CIP qualified
• Previous sales experiences within financial services environment
• Strong track record
• Ability to form relationships with stakeholders

Regulatory Requirements:

• This role is subject to the Fitness and Probity Standards (“The Standards”), issued under Section 50 of the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 and any subsequent amendments. The role holder must ensure they are fully aware of the Standards and in a position to fully comply with them at all times.
• This role falls within scope of the Minimum Competency Code (MCC) and requires the jobholder to have attained or be working towards the status of ‘Qualified Person’ in the relevant function(s) e.g. personal lines, commercial lines and claims, or have attained a Statement of Grandfathered Status in the relevant function(s). A New Entrant working towards the status of ‘Qualified Person’ must be supervised by a Qualified Person or a Grandfathered Person. The status of ‘Qualified Person’ can be achieved through attaining the qualification of Certified Insurance Practitioner (CIP), Accredited Product Advisor (APA), or Associate or Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII or FCII). The jobholder must also comply with all CPD requirements as outlined in the MCC.
• Maintain CIP accreditation status by completion of CPD requirements.
   

RSA Insurance Ireland DAC and its affiliate companies consider applicants on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status