Assistant Manager, Agency Business Development (GETB)

Great Eastern; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Kuala Lumpur is seeking an experienced Assistant Manager in Agency Business Development. The successful candidate will manage agent performance, conduct training sessions, and assist in recruitment efforts. With a degree in Economics or related field and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, the ideal individual will possess strong interpersonal skills and a positive, result-driven approach. This role offers an opportunity to drive agency development in a dynamic insurance environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years working experience in business development or sales management.
• Experience in leading and driving a sales team is preferred.
• Dynamic, self-motivated character with a positive outlook.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and monitor agent performance to achieve annual targets.
• Train and motivate agents through meetings and seminars.
• Prepare periodic performance reports.

Skills

Result-driven

Strategic thinking

Strong interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Team player

Education

Degree in Economics, Mathematics, or Business Administration

Job description

Assistant Manager, Agency Business Development (GETB)

Responsible for recruiting, training, leading, and retaining Takaful agents. Key duties include monitoring agent performance, providing counselling and corrective actions, and conducting face-to-face training and seminars. Additionally, the role involves organizing customized courses and presentations, assisting in agency development, preparing performance reports, and handling ad-hoc assignments as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse, manage and monitor the performance of all ranks agent pertaining to the takaful business to ensure they are achieving their annual target.
• Counsel all ranks agents on the results and take necessary corrective action if overall performance below par.
• Train and motivate all ranks agent through face-to-face meeting, training & seminars.
• Organize, supervise and implement customized courses, meetings, seminars, and talks presentation & training for takaful.
• Prepare periodic performance report.
• Assist in agency recruitment, training & agency development of new takaful agents.
• Prepare periodic performance agents
• Ad-hoc assignments as and when required
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Economics, Mathematics, or Science or Business Administration
• Minimum 2 years working experience in business development/ sales management preferably in agency or business development or training or marketing in financial institutions
• Result-driven, versatile with experience in leading and driving sales team
• Strategic thinking, strong interpersonal skills, outgoing personality
• Experienced in problem solving and managing stakeholders
• Dynamic, self-motivated and reliable character with positive outlook
• Excellent inter-personal and management skills
• Strong team player
• Possess discipline, initiative and able to work independently
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.