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Insurance expert

Colchester (Essex)
Permanent
Hiscox Ltd
Insurance
Posted: 4 August
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Insurance ExpertJob Type:
Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

About Hiscox UK

Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technologypanies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.

The Role

As an Insurance expert you will be an expert in inbound and outbound phone based customer service, helping to support the workflow and email request from our customers. Providing a customer centric timely response to customer enquiries, collecting relevant information, creating new business insurance product based quotes, making adjustments to insurance policies and helping our customers make informed decisions about our product range, enhancing oues we deliver to our customers, demonstrating values and behaviours that put customers, and vulnerable customers, needs at the heart of the day to day actions carried out within the role.

What you'll be doing

The work of the team follows a set process, for a variety of different phone based tasks and this will include:
1. Broker focus, deliver a best in class service directly to our Brokers
2. Offer all Brokers a knowledgeable and trusted insurance experience
3. Make changes and service our brokers through the delivery of an exceptional customer service
4. Engage with customers using their channel of choice, predominantly telephone but also through email, webchat and social media
5. Manage all current Hiscox client enquiries and adjustments efficiently and professionally
6. Achieve first-time and single-point resolution in every contact
7. Encourage engagement in Hiscox media channels
8. Ensure all policy documentation and post-contact actions arepleted appropriately
9. Build rapport and demonstrate empathy with our Brokers
10. Confidently respond to your Brokers questions and challenges
11. Offer your customers alternative solutions to ensure they receive the best experience with Hiscox
12. Engage with the customer appropriately to encourage advocacy, brand loyalty and improve retention opportunity
13. Actively seek to gain new business
14. Quickly develop and continually improve your knowledge of the insurance products
15. Share your knowledge and learning internally in order to improve the Centres expertise and the customers insurance experience
16. Develop strong internal relationships with Underwriting, Claims, Customer Relations and Marketing to enable mutual support
17. Work with marketing and insight teams to share your knowledge of our customers

Performance measures for success

18. Actively contribute to your team, and the centres service levels and targets
19. Deliver exceptional service and meet revenue goals
20. Quickly appraise and identify your Brokers suitability to be underwritten
21. Help the business gain quality customers and be risk aware
22. Actively seek ways to improve your service through the technology and systems available to you
23. Adhere to all relevantpliancy requirements

Our must haves

24. You do not need insurance experience as full training will be provided.
25. Experience within a customer/client focussed sector
26. Team player - you'll have worked as part of a team, and have actively contributed to its success
27. Continuous Improvement - the ability to identify improvements, and be involved in implementing them
28. Excellent verbalmunication and clear written (high standard of spelling and grammar)munication in a customer focussed environment
29. Proven skills in taking ownership and managing your own workload
30. You are clearly customer focussed, you do not accept 'second best', and strongly believe in service excellence
31. You take satisfaction and reward in knowing you have delivered the best service possible to your customer
32. You are a good, clearmunicator who builds rapport and trust easily, you're someone who finds it easy to build a conversation and demonstrate empathy
33. An exceptional listener, able to translate information into practical support
34. You understand the importance of brand, and appreciate the role it plays
35. Quick learner - eager to learn and not afraid to challenge the 'norm' to improve and develop, not just yourself, but those around you
36. Understanding the importance of detail and see it as an integral part of delivering excellent service
37. A key contributor - a desire to contribute and understand where you fit into the bigger picture

Our nice to haves
38. Working within an organisation known for its innovative approach to customer service excellence
39. Working within an organisation known for its strong brand and values

Diversity and flexible working at Hiscox

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we'remitted to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success. We also understand that working life doesn't always have to be 'nine to five' and we support flexible working wherever we can. No promises, but please chat to our resourcing team about the flexibility we could offer for this role.

We've introduced new hybrid ways of working to encourage a healthy work life balance.

We anticipate the successful candidate for this role will be in the office 5 days per week for the first 5 months for training and academy. Then moving to a minimum of 3 days in the office a week.

We see it as the best of both worlds: structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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