Insurance Expert

Hiscox; Colchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Colchester is seeking an Insurance expert to provide excellent customer service to brokers. You'll manage inquiries, create insurance quotes, and support customers while developing your knowledge of insurance products. Full training will be provided, and the role supports flexible working arrangements after an initial training period in the office.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Training and development programs

Qualifications

• Experience within a customer/client focused sector.
• Proven skills in taking ownership and managing your own workload.
• Good and clear communicator who builds rapport easily.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service to brokers over the phone and other channels.
• Manage client inquiries and ensure timely responses.
• Develop knowledge of insurance products to assist brokers effectively.

Skills

Customer service orientation

Excellent communication skills

Team player

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Job description

Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

The Role

As an Insurance expert you will be an expert in inbound and outbound phone based customer service, helping to support the workflow and email request from our customers. Providing a customer centric timely response to customer enquiries, collecting relevant information, creating new business insurance product based quotes, making adjustments to insurance policies and helping our customers make informed decisions about our product range, enhancing outcomes we deliver to our customers, demonstrating values and behaviours that put customers, and vulnerable customers, needs at the heart of the day to day actions carried out within the role.

What you’ll be doing

The work of the team follows a set process, for a variety of different phone based tasks and this will include:

Broker focus, deliver a best in class service directly to our Brokers

Offer all Brokers a knowledgeable and trusted insurance experience

Make changes and service our brokers through the delivery of an exceptional customer service

Engage with customers using their channel of choice, predominantly telephone but also through email, webchat and social media

Manage all current Hiscox client enquiries and adjustments efficiently and professionally

Achieve first-time and single-point resolution in every contact

Ensure all policy documentation and post-contact actions are completed appropriately

Build rapport and demonstrate empathy with our Brokers

Confidently respond to your Brokers questions and challenges

Offer your customers alternative solutions to ensure they receive the best experience with Hiscox

Engage with the customer appropriately to encourage advocacy, brand loyalty and improve retention opportunity

Actively seek to gain new business

Quickly develop and continually improve your knowledge of the insurance products

Share your knowledge and learning internally in order to improve the Centres expertise and the customers insurance experience

Develop strong internal relationships with Underwriting, Claims, Customer Relations and Marketing to enable mutual support

Work with marketing and insight teams to share your knowledge of our customers

Performance measures for success

Actively contribute to your team, and the centres service levels and targets

Deliver exceptional service and meet revenue goals

Quickly appraise and identify your Brokers suitability to be underwritten

Help the business gain quality customers and be risk aware

Actively seek ways to improve your service through the technology and systems available to you

Adhere to all relevant compliancy requirements

Our must haves

You do not need insurance experience as full training will be provided.

Experience within a customer/client focussed sector

Team player – you’ll have worked as part of a team, and have actively contributed to its success

Continuous Improvement – the ability to identify improvements, and be involved in implementing them

Excellent verbal communication and clear written (high standard of spelling and grammar) communication in a customer focussed environment

Proven skills in taking ownership and managing your own workload

You are clearly customer focussed, you do not accept ‘second best’, and strongly believe in service excellence

You take satisfaction and reward in knowing you have delivered the best service possible to your customer

You are a good, clear communicator who builds rapport and trust easily, you’re someone who finds it easy to build a conversation and demonstrate empathy

An exceptional listener, able to translate information into practical support

You understand the importance of brand, and appreciate the role it plays

Quick learner – eager to learn and not afraid to challenge the ‘norm’ to improve and develop, not just yourself, but those around you

Understanding the importance of detail and see it as an integral part of delivering excellent service

A key contributor – a desire to contribute and understand where you fit into the bigger picture

Our nice to haves

Working within an organisation known for its innovative approach to customer service excellence

Working within an organisation known for its strong brand and values

Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We also understand that working life doesn’t always have to be ‘nine to five’ and we support flexible working wherever we can. No promises, but please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.

We’ve introduced new hybrid ways of working to encourage a healthy work life balance.

We anticipate the successful candidate for this role will be in the office 5 days per week for the first 5 months for training and academy. Then moving to a minimum of 3 days in the office a week.

We see it as the best of both worlds: structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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