Jobs in a Growing Life Assurance Company

Job Purpose

• Maintain at all times the minimum number of Financial Planners for his unit as specified by the company from time to time.
• Coordinate and supervise the activities of his agency unit
• Ensure that the production and profitability budget of his agency unit is achieved.
• Ensure continuous recruitment and training of Financial Planners to meet the company standard requirements
• Sell the company products to meet personal targets
• Mentor and support the field force in dosing business and general sale activities
• Prepare agreed daily, weekly, monthly and yearly production/activity reports and submit same to the Agency Manager.
• Ensure premium collections and prompt payments of premiums (deposits and renewals) within 24 hours and delivery of all necessary documents including policy documents and correspondences to clients.
• Create new markets and maintain existing ones.
• Assist in closing-up sales and arrange required medical examinations for clients.

Qualification, Skills & Experience
A candidate for this position must, in addition to the key deliverables Specifications stated above must possess the following:

• Have a minimum of eight (8) years experience in sales, preferably in life insurance sales;
• He must be familiar with the local language in the territory where he’s going to be based as an Unit Manager;
• He must have adequate knowledge of life insurance products and other financial related products;
• He must be a great team player;
• He must have good sales records (e.g. persistency);
• He must be a good communicator;
• He must be aggressive and target-oriented;
• He must have good leadership skills, be able to train, counsel, and motivate.
• He must be computer literate
• He must hold a university degree or its equivalent in Insurance or any other discipline.