Private Medical Insurance Consultant

Howden Group; Brockworth; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Howden Life & Health in Gloucester is seeking a Health Insurance Advisor to provide tailored guidance to customers while achieving sales targets. The role combines customer service with a proactive sales approach in a hybrid setup, with three days from home and two days in the Gloucester office during training.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years in a fast-paced sales environment, a passion for helping customers, and a proven drive to succeed.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a fast-paced sales environment.
• Proactive with a natural drive to succeed.
• Positive, motivated with drive to achieve results.
• Passion to go above and beyond for customers.

Responsibilities

• Follow up leads from high quality sources such as Compare the Market and Money Supermarket.
• Provide advice to customers on Health Insurance products, balancing customer service with the drive to hit sales targets.
• Deliver on agreed sales targets and maximise opportunities for future business growth.
• Assess client’s needs and deliver insurance solutions in line with compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all clients receive the most appropriate advice and service.
• Through building effective relationships, ensure clients receive the best value from their cover and identify additional beneficial products.
• Identify and respond to all up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.

Skills

Drive to results

Customer-focused

Proactive

Sales experience

Job description

Who are we?

Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no-limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 24,000 employees spanning over 56 countries. People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like-minded people driving change at Howden.

Howden Life & Health

We are an award-winning* specialist life and health broker. Here at Howden, we pride ourselves on doing the heavy lifting. As an insurance broker, we work with a selected panel of insurers, making comparing multiple policies simple and easy. We provide a personalised service, focussed on getting to know you exactly what our clients want from their insurance cover. Our continued growth has created several opportunities available across our vibrant Private Medical Insurance sales teams. Adviser level roles are a fantastic opportunity for target driven, proactive people who are looking for their next challenge within the financial services industry. We offer full training and a structured career pathway to allow you to learn all about us, our products and ways of working.

Requirements

• Positive, motivated, and proven drive to achieve results.
• Passion to go above and beyond for customers.
• Proactive with a natural drive to succeed.
• 2years + experience of working in a fast paced Sales environment.

Responsibilities

• Follow up leads from high quality sources such as Compare the Market and Money Supermarket.
• Provide advice to customers on Health Insurance products, balancing customer service with the drive to hit sales targets.
• To deliver on agreed sales targets and maximise opportunities for future business growth.
• To assess client’s needs and quickly and effectively deliver insurance solutions in line with compliance and regulatory requirements.
• To ensure all clients receive the most appropriate advice and service.
• Through building effective relationships, ensure clients receive the best value from their cover and identify additional beneficial products.
• Identify and respond to all up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.

Hybrid - 3 days a week from home, 2 in the Gloucester office 1st week of training required to take place at Gloucester Office.

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us: Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond.

Reasonable adjustments

We’re committed to providing reasonable accommodations at Howden to ensure that our positions align well with your needs. Besides the usual adjustments such as software, IT, and office setups, we can also accommodate other changes such as flexible hours* or hybrid working*.

Permanent

Howden began in 1994, as just three people and a dog. Now there are 23,000 of us, and we’re a leading global insurance group, managing $37bn of premiums for our clients. Our largest shareholder group is us – the people who work in the business – supported by three long-term, minority growth-equity partners who share our vision to build a business to last, one that will never be sold. The owner's mindset is something that's embedded in our culture; our people readily take ownership of their decisions, their actions, and their outputs. They’re invested in every sense. And we all know that by working together to drive the business forward, everyone will benefit from the extraordinary results we can achieve.