Everywhen Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Insurance Branch Director
everywhen Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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A new, exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced Insurance professional to join us at Ardonagh Advisory as an Insurance Broking Branch Director based in Northern Ireland.
This new Branch Director role acts as the senior leader at a Branch level and will have overall accountability of all aspects of branch business(s). In this role you will have overall accountability for the delivery of the local P&L and be responsible for driving growth through improved retention, cross sales, and new client sales. As the senior local leader, you will set the standards of performance and behaviour, acting as a role model to others and leading and motivating the whole Branch team ensuring that they have the correct knowledge, skills, capacity, and resources to grow sales.
The primary focus of this role is providing strong, effective leadership of the Branch, driving and implementing the regional strategy and being accountable for the branch P&L. Overseeing all aspects of branch trading in line with budgets, and constantly reviewing the market and relevant sectors to understand new opportunities, performance against competitors in the market, identify challenges and threats from external competition and maintain key internal relationships with Ardonagh Advisory stakeholders.
Some Of The Key Responsibilities Include
* At branch level, you will lead and support the team to deliver the best customer outcomes meeting all Consumer Duty requirements whilst working collaboratively with your Regional Director to achieve financial targets for both your branch, region, and the whole GI business.
* Lead on all aspects of risk management, implementing plans which ensures every colleague meets risk and, where applicable, quality assurance requirements ensuring effective monitoring which highlights trends to enable actions and mitigations to be put into place.
* Work in collaboration with your Regional Director to highlight potential barriers to retention or new sales and promote opportunities for business growth, sharing good practice and ideas.
* Constructively highlight to the Regional Director any operational needs or requirements to ensure an optimal customer journey - balancing customer satisfaction and technical standards; implementing solutions, optimising resources, and managing workflow; driving standardisation and continuous improvement in the Branch, tracked, and monitored by meaningful MI.
What We Are Looking For
* An experienced people leader who has a strong track record of delivering sales growth and leading teams to deliver revenue targets within a regulatory framework.
* Demonstrable experience in a management role within insurance and extensive knowledge of the insurance industry specifically placement and insurer relationships
* Proven track record of delivering both top and bottom-line performance and growth, organically and inorganically.
* Experience of managing client relationships
* Able to improve business performance, income, and employee engagement within a regulated environment through effective sales planning.
* Strong commercial leader with a commercial focus and financial awareness, e.g. understanding of the external market, company performance, market intelligence, business drivers, etc.
* Significant, proven experience of managing a P&L Budget
* A robust understanding of business processes and performance levers
* Ability to demonstrate leadership of driving new ideas and innovation.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels across our organisation.
* Flexibility to travel you must be available to travel to our various offices and attend meetings which could include overnights stays.
This is a unique chance for an ambitious individual with a proven record who is looking for their next career move within Insurance in a fast paced, challenging and highly rewarding role.
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Everywhen is an equal opportunities employer, with a growing and thriving diversity, equity and inclusion strategy; we are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential.
If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check.
Please note: 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.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Director
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Sales and Business Development
* Industries
Insurance
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