Business Development Manager

AXA UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

AXA UK is seeking a Business Development Professional with expertise in the Birmingham commercial insurance market. The ideal candidate will focus on building valuable relationships with brokers and stakeholders while independently managing a profitable business pipeline, ensuring strategic growth for AXA. This hybrid role offers flexible work arrangements and an attractive rewards package.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private health cover

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Wellbeing services & resources

AXA employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in Birmingham commercial insurance market essential.
• Strong product knowledge and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop relationships with intermediaries.

Responsibilities

• Proactively develop relationships with brokers.
• Generate and retain profitable business.
• Manage a robust pipeline of business opportunities.

Skills

Business development

Networking

Risk management

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

ACII qualification or equivalent

Degree level education

Job description

Description

Are you passionate about growing profitable relationships with brokers and familiar with the Birmingham commercial market? This could be an excellent development opportunity for you. We're seeking an experienced and highly organised individual to join our Business Development team, to build and maintain a robust pipeline of new business opportunities.

You'll take full ownership for generating profitable business. You'll use your expertise to build, manage and maintain strong relationships with all internal and external stakeholders, including all key customers and networks to deliver strategy and increase opportunities for the business.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at our Birmingham office, visiting clients or attending industry events.

What you'll be doing:

• Proactively develop strong relationships with a designated panel of brokers, taking full ownership for the generation and retention of profitable business.
• Build, manage and maintain strong relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop a robust pipeline of new business opportunities and ensure a long-term pipeline and broker engagement.
• Understand and communicate internally within AXA, the nature of the brokers' business, the marketplace and the potential of the relationship.
• Plan, forecast and set the operational targets to achieve the strategic development plan.
• Review progress of initiatives against plan and take action as appropriate.
• Identify new deals and markets, assess feasibility and project manage the implementation.
• Effectively promote and deploy AXA's strategy, product range, propositions and key differentiators to leverage commercial opportunities.
• Undertake profit reviews to identify areas for improvement and lead conversations with brokers to agree actions to optimise profitability.
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.

What you'll bring:

• Business development experience within the Birmingham commercial insurance market - essential.
• Good understanding of underwriting and risk management principles - essential.
• Established networking and relationship building skills - essential
• Strong product knowledge.
• Mid-market knowledge and generation experience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop reciprocal relationships with intermediaries.
• Awareness of profitability of business within the intermediary channel.
• ACII qualification or equivalent, and degree level educated - preferred.
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary of circa £60,000 dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts
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Who we are:
AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We're currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We're a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.