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Private Client Advisor
Location: Penrith
Package: £Negotiable
We're delighted to be strengthening our Private Client team out of Penrith as part of our wider ongoing growth as A Forever Company with the addition of 2 Private Client Advisors.
You’ll be supporting our customers with their requirements across the full cycle from New Business to Renewal and everything in between.
Overview: Achieve the required renewals and new business results and contribute towards team/individual targets, whilst offering a bespoke high level service, adhering to company procedures and regulatory requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Meet and deliver against your agreed Renewal Retention and/or New Business Targets, contributing towards the teams overall budget targets & KPI’s
- Ensure you carry out thorough pre renewal reviews with your clients annually, identify customer needs, highlight any shortfalls in cover and advise your client accordingly
- Offer and attend physical client visits where required/appropriate
- Conduct a full insurer/market review for your client and then recommend the most suitable policy which protects the customers needs
- Invite all policies within regulatory guidelines and ensure policies are renewed, on or before the renewal date
- Handle claims reported and support client through the claims process
- Complete all roles and tasks as required by your line manager, ensuring you adhere to business procedures and policies at all times
- Review client documentation and ensure its accuracy and that it meets the client’s needs
- Ensure documents are issued within contract certain timelines
- Ensure client files are kept up to date with all relevant communication and notes
- Deliver excellent customer outcomes by adhering to best practice and contribute towards our customer-led culture
- Comply with the B&B credit control procedures Debt Management to ensure all monies are collected and allocated appropriately and keep line manager informed of any current, potential or perceived problems with bad debt
- Manage and prioritise your diaries/tasks, these are to be kept up to date
- Identify and discuss with your clients any recommended and relevant additional covers
- Complete any training that is deemed necessary for your role and fully prepare for your regular 1-2-1s and year end review
- Ensure you agree and complete the actions set in line with your development plan
- Adherence to the B&B Training & Competency scheme
- Receive audit feedback and ensure any improvements identified and communicated to you are implemented
- Ensure all training is completed to deadline set
- Log all training and development on your Continuous Professional Development Plan (CPD)
- As and when required undertake and participate in work related projects as requested
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have a strong attention to detail and challenge inaccuracies with third parties
- Ability to present to customers face to face in a professional and knowledgeable manner
- Represent the business in a professional way at all times
- Proficient in operating ICT systems, applications, insurer portals etc.
- Exceptional knowledge of the Private Clients insurance market
- Able to build long standing relationships with insurers
- Prioritises time and attention on high value activities
- Be a team player and work collaboratively to achieve a harmonised and professional environment
- Take decisive action based on the available information and accept personal responsibility for the outcome
Preferred qualifications
- Relevant industry experience is preferable
- Ability to develop and maintain business contacts and goodwill
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Pro-active and self-motivated
- Excellent planning and organisation skills to meet deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Co-operative and supportive team player
- Represent the Company in a professional manner at all times
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants.
Founded in 1939 as a small, two-partner firm, Brown & Brown (NYSE: BRO) and our team of companies have grown into one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages while staying true to our foundation of trust, resilience and delivering results.
With a team that is as connected locally as it is globally, our high-performing, highly collaborative team delivers innovative risk and insurance solutions.
We look for individuals who embrace our culture, thrive in a collaborative environment, are driven to grow and succeed and are committed to always doing what is right.
With a unique culture built on integrity, superior capabilities and grit, we value teamwork, trust and courage.
We think of ourselves as a team, so we have teammates—not employees, and leaders—not managers.
Everything we do is about the greater “WE”—never “me.”While diverse in abilities and experience, we are all connected through our core values, a commitment to our local communities and a shared mission—always doing what is best for our customers.