Regional Development Director - South West of England - ARD1007537
It’s an exciting time at Ardonagh Advisory, part of the Ardonagh Group, as through our continued growth and transformation journey, we have been reviewing our model so that we can adapt to win and achieve the very best outcomes for our colleagues, and our clients. Ensuring we maintain a strong network of regional brokers at the heart of our communities continues to be our priority.
This journey brings a new and exciting opportunity for skilled and experienced Insurance professional to join us at Ardonagh Advisory as a Regional Development Director. This role will require regular travel / visits across all the sites within your allocated region. In this vital new role of Regional Development Director, you will work closely with the Divisional Development Director and assist the Regional Director to grow sales, improve retention rates and explore cross sales opportunities throughout the Region you are assigned to. Deliver the agreed cross sales approach, ensuring effective communication and monitoring to the Regional Directors across all product areas
Ensure effective pipeline plans are in place safeguarding that regional sales pitches are led by the most appropriate person/team to maximise the success of new and retained business
Support and enable the Branch Directors with the sales development of the regional Account Executives, increasing accountability, driving awareness and challenging continuous improvement in the region, tracked and monitored by meaningful MI
Responsible for the production and overseeing of all relevant data and MI required to identify performance trends which result in action plans which are implemented in a timely manner
Support and enable the Regional Director with sales development of the divisional Account Executives, increasing accountability, driving awareness and challenging continuous improvement in the Region, tracked and monitored by meaningful MI.
Provide feedback to the Divisional Development Director to assist in the design of the new business and cross sales / upsales strategy for the division and region
Support regional sales meetings and events, sales days, conferences, specialisms, sales initiatives, campaigns resulting in an uplift of business performance
An experienced insurance professional with demonstrable experience in management roles within insurance and extensive knowledge of the insurance industry specifically development and insurer relationships
Proven track record of creating developing plans to grow sales and improve client retention within a regulatory framework and of managing client relationships
Proven track record of improving business performance, income and employee engagement within a regulated environment through effective sales and development planning
Possesses a commercial focus and financial awareness, e.g. understanding of the external market, company performance, market intelligence, business drivers, etc
Flexibility to travel you must be available to travel to our various offices and attend meetings which could include overnights stays.
Generous holiday entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays
~ Buy / sell holidays
~ My Benefits – our range of protection, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits you can
~ Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
~ Pension scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
~1 days paid volunteering day to give back to our communities
~ The diversity of brands and breadth of products and solutions for our customers bring huge opportunity. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability for either application or interview, please contact us.
We may close a vacancy prior to the publish end date if the required quality or number of applications has been received. No Agencies please
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