Insurance Advisor

Howden; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holiday

Healthcare cashplan

Training schemes

CII qualification

Maternity/paternity leave

Cycle to work

Gym discounts

Health policy discounts

Employee discounts

EAP

Job summary

Howden Consumer & Local Commercial is seeking an Insurance Advisor to join our UK team. You will talk with clients, listen, and build relationships to understand their insurance needs and provide tailored solutions.

No experience is required; we provide on-site training and industry qualifications. We promote from within, offering clear career progression and a wide range of benefits. You will have support to grow professionally.

Qualifications

• You enjoy conversations with people, listening and building relationships.
• You have strong problem-solving skills and tailor-made solutions for unique client needs.
• No prior experience required; on-site training, workshops and industry qualifications provided.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and ambition to grow within the company.
• We promote from within and offer leadership opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Talk with clients to understand requirements and build relationships.
• Provide tailored insurance solutions based on client needs.

Job description

With a no limits approach, we can rise to any challenge. Whatever the question, the concern, or the risk, we can get the right people in a room and find the right answer. Our collective power is also helping us to change the insurance narrative - doing right by our clients while using insurance as a tool to build resilience for individuals, businesses and communities. From pro bono work to insuring COVID-19 vaccine development to de-risking the carbon market, we're using our skills, knowledge, and networks to make a difference and speed positive change in the world around us.
We are actively looking for an Insurance Advisor to join our Howden Consumer & Local Commercial team. This is a great opportunity to join a highly successful organisation, where you will be provided with full training on the job and the opportunity to gain industry recognised qualifications.

About you:

You will enjoy having conversations with people, listening and building relationships as it's important that we really get to know our clients and understand their requirements.

You have awesome problem-solving skills - all of our clients are totally unique, so we need to come up with tailor made solutions as we don't have a "one size fits all" approach

You may currently be working in a sales role and are now looking for a career. We don't require any previous experience as we offer on-site training, workshops, coaching and will support you through industry qualifications.

You will have a passion and entrepreneurial mindset. Many of our most successful business opportunities have come from team members with a passion for the subject - whether that's equine insurance, campervans, motorhomes, classic cars, motorbikes, marine, fine art, etc. Loving what you do, means you will be knowledgeable, be able to build rapport quickly and be able to provide clients with the best solution.

You will be ambitious. We promote within, everyone in a leadership position started out as an Insurance Advisor - We give you all the tools, all we ask from you is the desire to succeed.

Rewards:

We believe that great work and dedication should be rewarded, that's why we offer:

• 22 days holiday, increasing to 27 days through service (plus bank holidays)
• Access to a Healthcare Cashplan, which gives you access to 17 different benefits, all paid for by us
• Excellent training and development schemes with accelerated career progression
• Company funded CII professional qualification
• Enhanced maternity & paternity policies
• Cycle to work loan scheme available to all employees
• Discount on gym membership across the UK - national and local gyms included
• Access to discounted personal health policies as well as a range of insurance products including home, motor, travel, specialist vehicles, critical illness, private medical, income protection etc.
• Access to hundreds of highstreet retailer discounts through our reward and recognition platform
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support employees outside of work

The above details just a handful of the benefits available to our employees, for a more details will be made available through the recruitment process