Account Executive

Howden Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Howden is a global insurance group with a culture built on ownership and collaboration. We are seeking an Account Executive to strengthen relationships with retail clients, focusing on renewals while pursuing opportunities to win new business for the group.

You will ensure all needs for new business, renewals and mid-term adjustments are understood and addressed, with tailored coverages and competitive pricing.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused approach with strong networking and influencing skills.
• Knowledge of insurance market and territory awareness.
• People are key to us and flexibility is valued.
• Calm, resilient, accurate and efficient in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Review client documentation to ensure information supports quoting to insurers and clients.
• Diligently collate and communicate clients’ requirements for risk marketing.
• Produce high-quality quotation and policy documentation with required authorisations.

Skills

Customer focus

Networking

Influencing

Market knowledge

Flexibility

Calm under pressure

Attention to detail

Job description

Who are we?

Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 24,000 employees spanning over 56 countries. People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

The Role

We've got an exciting opportunity to join us as an Account Executive, to help drive our business forward with new engagements and existing clients alike. As part of your role, you will have the important task of connecting with retail clients and in particular a focus on working on renewals of existing business but with the opportunity to win new clients for the group, including ensuring all the needs for new business, renewals, and mid-term adjustments are completely understood and addressed. This will involve finding the right coverages, offering competitive pricing, and providing outstanding service to clients and colleagues alike.

What you’ll do

• Review client documentation to ensure that information presented is sufficiently comprehensive (and accurate!) to support the quoting process to Insurers and to the client.
• Diligently collate and communicate clients’ requirements to ensure appropriate marketing of the risk.
• Produce high quality, accurate quotation and policy documentation and ensuring appropriate authorisations are secured.

Who we're looking for

• You’ll be someone with some prior knowledge of the market, including an awareness of competitors, specific territory knowledge, cultural awareness.
• You have a customer-focussed approach, with strong networking and influencing skills.
• People are key to us!
• Able to work flexibly and prioritise on-the-fly.
• Calm and resilient, yet accurate and efficient.

What do we offer in return?

• A career that you define.
• At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type.
• Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us: Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new.
• We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges.
• We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond.

Reasonable adjustments

We're committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*.

Permanent

Howden began in 1994, as just three people and a dog. Now there are 23,000 of us, and we’re a leading global insurance group, managing $37bn of premiums for our clients. Our largest shareholder group is us – the people who work in the business – supported by three long-term, minority growth-equity partners who share our vision to build a business to last, one that will never be sold. The owner's mindset is something that's embedded in our culture; our people readily take ownership of their decisions, their actions, and their outputs. They’re invested in every sense. And we all know that by working together to drive the business forward, everyone will benefit from the extraordinary results we can achieve.