New Business Sales Consultant

Simply Business; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance technology company in the UK is seeking a New Business Sales Consultant to focus on sales for new clients. This hybrid role involves making outbound calls to prospective customers and handling incoming inquiries while ensuring compliance. The starting salary is £27,280 with potential annual increases based on performance. The ideal candidate is highly motivated and has experience in telephone sales. Opportunities for personal development and remote work options are offered.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Flexible parental leave

Annual bonus based on performance

Pension matching up to 5%

Qualifications

• Experience in telephone sales is essential, ideally within business insurance.
• Ability to handle objections and maintain attention to detail.
• Comfortable multitasking across different systems while talking to customers.

Responsibilities

• Make outbound calls to prospective customers who have requested a quote.
• Handle incoming calls from potential customers discussing their quotes.
• Follow the sales process to completion, ensuring accurate payments and compliance with regulations.

Skills

Sales Experience

Resilience & Focus

Tech Savvy

Adaptability

Job description

If you’re the kind of person who gets a buzz from closing a sale and loves solving problems for new clients, you’ll look forward to coming to work every day. As a New Business Sales Consultant, you’ll be the first point of contact for our prospective customers—the UK’s small business heroes—helping them secure the protection they need to thrive.

We're looking at our next start date, 2nd February 2026

The role has a starting salary of £27,280 with potential to increase to £28,411 within 6 months. You can increase your salary once every twelve months, with half‑year reviews, to £31,648, then £34,866, and finally £40,033.

Here is what you’ll be doing:

• Instead of juggling administrative changes or renewals, your focus will be purely on winning new business:
• Outbound Sales (Warm Leads): You’ll make outbound calls to prospective customers who have already requested a quote, guiding them to the right policy.
• Inbound Sales: You’ll handle incoming calls from potential customers ready to discuss their quotes and buy.
• Closing with Quality: You will follow the full sales process to completion, ensuring card payments and Direct Debits are accurate while adhering to FCA regulations and GDPR.

Who we are looking for:

• We’re looking for someone who is highly motivated, passionate about sales, and resilient. To succeed in this role, you will need:
• Sales Experience: Experience in telephone sales is essential—ideally within business insurance, though we welcome strong sales professionals from other industries.
• Resilience & Focus: You are able to handle objections, maintain attention to detail, and stay focused while working independently.
• Tech Savvy: You are computer literate and comfortable multitasking across different systems while talking to customers.
• Adaptability: You are open to change and eager to learn as our products and processes evolve.

Above all, we'll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

This is a hybrid position where you will be working up to eight days per month from our Northampton hub, subject to team needs. On the other days, you will work from home using equipment provided by us; you will just need to ensure you have a broadband connection with a speed of 20Mbps or more.

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

Check out our advert on YouTube: Simply Business TV advert 2024.

What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?

We offer a great work‑life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid.

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits.

Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long‑serving employees we offer a two‑week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre‑existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling.

We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax‑free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme.

Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high‑performing team? Apply today.