Sales Agent Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Agria Pet Insurance £23,600 - 24,000 - Annum 1 day ago

Gumtree; Aylesbury; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet insurance provider is looking for a motivated Sales Agent in Aylesbury. You will manage inbound and outbound calls, providing quotations for various insurance products. This full-time role offers a supportive environment with opportunities for growth and a competitive salary.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension and Life Assurance scheme

Health Cash Plan and mental health support

Qualifications

• Proven background in a sales role within a Contact Centre.
• Experience in a regulated environment and following scripts.
• Determination to achieve productivity targets.

Responsibilities

• Handle inbound calls and provide insurance quotations.
• Make outbound calls to offer insurance policies.
• Maintain customer records and ensure compliance.

Skills

Customer service skills

Sales experience

Effective questioning skills

Listening skills

Computer literacy

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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The Role:

We’re looking for a motivated and results-driven Sales Agent to join our busy team here at Agria Pet Insurance.

Handling inbound and outbound calls, you’ll be providing quotations to both existing customers and warm leads.

This role will suit a determined and tenacious individual, who has experience of working in a similar role within a Contact Centre, preferably in a regulated environment.

We have a hybrid approach to work and all attend the Aylesbury office every Wednesday.

The start date for this role is Monday 1st September and you will be required to attend a two week in office induction when you start.

You must be able to commit to these arrangements and start date in order to be considered for this role.

This is a full time role working 36 hours per week between the hours of 9:00am-6:00pm Monday-Friday on a rotating shift pattern.

This role offers a starting salary of between £23,600 and £24,000 per annum with a realistic OTE of between £30,000 to £32,000 per annum.

What you’ll be doing:

Dealing with inbound calls from customers to assist and provide quotations and policies for various insurance products

Making outbound calls to offer insurance quotations to existing customers and other warm leads

Making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations

Ensuring customers are provided with the information they need to make an informed decision and purchase

Identifying customers’ needs, highlighting product features and benefits of policies

Maintain customer records and take telephone payments in compliance with security protocols.

Utilising skills gained learnt in training, closing sales using a consultative and confident approach

Regularly achieving sales, service and productivity targets

Respond to and follow up sales and/ or service enquiries using appropriate methods of communication

Record and maintain accurate policyholder information using the in-house computer systems

What we’re looking for:

Proven successful background in a sales role within a Contact Centre environment

Experience of selling within a regulated environment and used to following a script

Great customer service skills

The ability and determination to consistently over achieve on productivity targets

Effective questioning and listening skills.

Computer literate (MS Office) with keyboard skills.

Precise comprehension and ability to communicate clearly in both verbal and written form.

Why choose Agria Pet:

Agria Pet Insurance is one of the UK's leading specialist pet insurance providers. We only provide lifetime insurance for animals, so truly understand and care about our customers and their beloved pets - especially as most of our team are pet parents, and we're all animal-lovers. Our passion for pets means that we are trusted by The Royal Kennel Club, Lloyds and many other significant affinity partners to provide lifetime pet insurance in their names.

Working closely with animal welfare organisations, vets and breeders, gives us deep insight on what's best for pets. And we give back too - including supporting hundreds of animal rescues, protecting over 100,000 rescued animals, and through donations of over £2m to animal charities.

We are a strong, growing business, having doubled our GWP in the last 5 years, with a supportive ethos and family feel. We became one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2023, 2024 and again in 2025, we have the top 4 slots on Which? Best Buy pet insurance and we are extremely proud to be the only carbon negative pet insurer in the UK.

What we offer:

25 days annual leave which increases with service, plus bank holidays

Opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days annual leave per calendar year

Pension and Life Assurance scheme

Access to 25% off insuring your pet with Agria. Friends and family are also entitled to a discount too

We aim to support the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues so you’ll have access to a Health Cash Plan, mental health support and health and wellbeing platforms, including Headspace

"Be wary of buyers asking to use 'Gumtree delivery' or 'Payments on Gumtree' because Gumtree doesn't offer these services currently. Requests from Whatsapp or SMS could be scams"

"Only access Gumtree from gumtree.com and do not follow links sent by other users"

"Share photos and ask lots of questions about the items you are buying and selling"

"If an ad or reply sounds too good to be true, it probably is"

"Use the 'Reply to ad' button for your safety and privacy"

"Don't reply to email addresses hidden in text and pictures"

"Trade in person, use PayPal 'paying for an item or service' to transfer money"

"Beware of fake Gumtree, eBay or escrow sites and invoices"