Commercial Insurance Account Executive

Employer: NFU Mutual

Location: Truro

Salary: £25,000 to £35,000 (depending on experience) + Bonus

Closing date: 4 May 2025

The Role

Commercial Insurance Account Executive

Salary: £25,000 to £35,000 (depending on experience) + Bonus

Full Time Permanent Contract

Location: Truro or Liskeard

Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm

Introduction to NFU Mutual

NFU Mutual offers a wide range of products and services, including general insurance, life, pensions, and investments. We have been providing quality insurance for our customers for over 110 years. We carefully balance delivering excellent service to our customers while ensuring the business is run effectively. As a mutual, supporting our customers and paying their claims comes first. We are a top ten UK insurance company and the UK's largest rural insurer, with an agency network of over 250 local offices.

About the Agency

As a local agency of NFU Mutual, we deliver a first-class service and sell our product range across our region to customers old and new, who are at the core of everything we do. We are a business where honesty, integrity, and trust are at the heart of our values. We champion the personal approach to customer service that NFU Mutual is famous for.

An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the Central Cornwall Agency, based out of our Truro or Liskeard office.

About the role:

As part of our sales team, you will play a key role in the growth of the business. You will be responsible for the development of a sales pipeline, self-generating appointments, and strengthening our brand as a Commercial insurer by building relationships with key decision-makers.

By liaising with colleagues, you will provide advice and quotations to customers and will win new business that is aligned to our risk appetite.

As well as selling commercial insurance, you will cross-sell the full range of NFU Mutual insurance products, as well as generating leads for financial services and risk management services.

You will manage relationships with existing customers, handling renewal negotiations and delivering against retention targets.

About you

You will have a solid understanding of the commercial sales environment. We provide an extensive training programme designed to give you everything you need to understand insurance and sell our products; you just need to bring the natural flair for sales and the commitment to learn.

• A pro-active and charismatic individual with the drive, energy, and enthusiasm required to learn quickly and provide a first-class experience to our existing and prospective clients.
• An ability to articulate the added value we bring clients through our products and customer service, rather than selling on price.
• An articulate candidate who uses good grammar and pays attention to detail.
• Someone who is IT literate and comfortable using a Client Relationship Management System.
• The ability to manage your own workload and prioritise accordingly.
• Reliable and dependable.
• Seeking to uphold standards.
• Demonstrate attributes of honesty, integrity, due skill, care, and diligence.
• Desire to build a long-term career with NFU Mutual.
• A valid UK driving licence with access to your own car.

We offer:

• Competitive salary with opportunity for progression.
• Access to bonus scheme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• A focus on your professional development, with full training provided.
• 35 hours a week.
• 25 days annual leave plus all UK bank holidays.
• Free Parking.

Please apply in writing with CV and covering letter to: lisa_hitchens@nfumutual.co.uk

If your application for employment is unsuccessful, the Company will hold your data on file for six months after the end of the relevant recruitment process. If you agree to allow the Company to keep your personal data on file, the Company will hold your data on file for a further time period of 6 months for consideration for future employment opportunities. At the end of that period, your data is deleted or destroyed.

Closing date for all applications: 25th April 2025.

Please note you will be employed by an Agent of NFU Mutual and not NFU Mutual directly.