Job Details

Account Handler

Sector:General Insurance

Region : North West England

Location: Rochdale

Salary: £22,000 - £26,000

Job Ref.: JA-2308ahroc

Job Information

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Commercial Account Handler to join a very highly regarded Rochdale based Commercial Insurance Broker.
Our client, a staunchly independent broker, is seeking an experienced and technically proficient Account Handler to offer back office support to a team of Account Executives. Given the diversity of business generated, you will ideally be an experienced commercial broker with a wide and in-depth knowledge of the majority of classes of commercial insurance.

As a business that prides itself on offering its staff an extremely high level of continuous development and career progression, you will have access to a number of internal career resources, including full study support towards achieving industry recognised CII qualifications.

Responsibilities:

• To act as the first point of contact to provide Account Executive with the highest level of technical advice and administrative support
• To build and maintain an excellent rapport with both AE`s, carriers and underwriters
• To take ownership of all tasks and proactively manage priorities and deadlines
• Respond to queries in a timely and accurate manner.
• To provide relevant information to the sales team to ensure sales opportunities are realised.
• To produce and maintain accurate and complete documentation /correspondence.
• Produce high-quality correspondence, using standard templates, writing clearly, concisely and professionally.
• To log all business activity, ensuring revenue is accurately recorded and documented.

Key competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of the commercial broking market.
• 4 years + experience gained in a commercial broking environment
• Ideally, be a minimum of Cert CII qualified
• Experience of using the Acturis trading platform