Job Opportunities at a Leading Insurance Firm - Oscar Temple

Our client, a reputable insurance company, seeks to employ the services of a National Agency Manager, who will be responsible for developing and executing the direct and agency sales strategy to ensure sustainable business growth, market share and profitability, and also prepare a recruitment plan for insurance agents for approval, execute the approved agent recruitment plan to ensure sales targets are met to achieve defined Organisational sales targets.

Responsibilities

• Execute a comprehensive direct sales and distribution plan for corporates and institutions, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategy, goals and objectives.
• Recruit, train and develop sales agents in order to achieve manpower targets and sustain productivity levels. Implement effective agency force management processes.
• Develop and implement the sales growth strategy in order to achieve the agreed sales targets in alignment with business objectives.
• Provide on-going input to Product and General Management on market developments, corporate needs and product requirements to ensure competitive product pricing and design.

Qualifications/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Marketing or related discipline.
• Post-graduate/ professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of eight (8) years relevant work experience, with at least four (4) years in a management position.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation and sales skills.

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Our client, a leading insurance company, seeks to employ the services of a Head, Distribution & Sales Officer, who will assist the Chief Distribution Officer and Exco team with the creation, setting and communication of the distribution strategy of the business, establish, grow and maintain relationships with brokers to secure new business and oversee overall distribution and sales teams in major centres together with Chief Distribution Officer, towards the achievement of organization’s set objectives.

Qualifications/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Marketing of related discipline
• Post-graduate/ professional qualification will be an added advantage
• Minimum of eight (8) years relevant work experience, with at least four (4) years in a senior
• management position
• Experience working with brokers is an advantage

Job Description:

• Execute a comprehensive sales and distribution plan for sales through brokerages, ensuring
• alignment with the company strategy, goals and objectives.
• Recruit, train and develop broker support staff (broker consultants) in order to achieve
• manpower targets and sustain productivity levels. Implement effective broker consultant
• management processes. Assist the executive in defining appropriate variable remuneration
• structures for sales staff.
• Manage relationship with internal clients including, Compliance, Underwriting and Claims.
• Position the company as a market leading provider of life and non-life insurance solutions.

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Our client, a reputable insurance company, seeks to employ the services of Regional Distribution Managers, who will oversee branch office in key cities in Nigeria, be accountable for profitability of the branch office, build the Company’s profile with corporate customers and brokers through on-going interaction and relationship management and also provide management oversight for insurance agents operating from the branch office.

Responsibilities

• Build up detailed knowledge about the company’s products, keep abreast of market conditions and developments, analyse market research data, intelligence, and their implication to the Company and advise management accordingly.
• Manage the client relationship, sales and servicing for specified key corporates and institutions in order to maintain existing business, secure new business and provide new products as the product range evolves.
• Take responsibility for planning, organising, monitoring, allocating resources and directing activities within the business to ensure delivery of targets within agreed budget.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Head of Distribution

Qualifications/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Marketing or related discipline.
• Post-graduate/ professional qualification will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of eight (8) years relevant work experience, with at least three (3) years in a management position.
• High ethical standards

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Our client, a leading insurance company, seeks to employ the services of a Chief Distribution/Sales Officer, who will participate in the creation, setting and communication of the overall strategy of the business together with the Exco team, and responsible for the development and execution of sales and marketing strategies to ensure appropriate positioning of the company’s products and services across multiple distribution channels to achieve defined organisational sales target.

Qualifications/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Marketing or related discipline.
• Minimum of twelve (12) years relevant work experience, with at least four (4) years in a
• Senior management position.
• Ability to network across all levels including Board of Director level.
• Expert knowledge of advanced sales concepts and strong knowledge of Life and Non-life
• Insurance offerings.

Job Description:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive sales and distribution plan ensuring alignment with the corporate strategy, goals and objectives.
• Champion the development and establishment of effective channel strategies to support product sales.
• Identify key areas for market growth of the company’s Life and non-life businesses and ways to improve products and services to increase profitability.
• Ensure ongoing identification of new revenue streams; oversee business and product development and implementation of key accounts retention strategies.