An opportunity has arisen for a tenacious and career focused individual to join the Aviva team as a Sales Manager. This role would suit individuals who are natural relationship builders and have existing experience within the insurance market. Sales experience is not vital as training will be provided by the team.

You will act as the face of Aviva for a defined panel of Global Brokers and be instrumental in maintaining high quality, effective trading relationships, which will ultimately lead to the delivery of our financial plans. You will be part of a team and will be influential in bringing various parts of the business together.

This is a field-based role covering the South - Southeast region, so ideally candidates should be based around the Greater London area with good access to road/transport links. This role will involve a combination of home working along with some days in the office and some in broker offices so you will be organised and flexible.

The role’s duties & responsibilities:

• Provide sales insights to internal business partners
• Identifying areas for improvement and creating remedial action plans
• Management of new business pipeline and renewal retention activity
• Identifying new areas for business development and implementing a plan to capitalise the opportunities
• Supervise delivery and extract value from, broker fee for service agreements at a local level
• Ongoing measurement, analysis and reporting of performance versus financial plans

Skills & experiences required:

• Knowledge of General Insurance
• Relationship management skills
• ACII desirable but not essential
• Negotiation skills, excellent planning & organisational abilities
• Ability to influence and execute change and act decisively
• Experience of working with General Insurance Intermediaries, either from a sales or underwriting perspective

What will you get for this role?

• Competitive market salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications
• Company car
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Tawana Chin a call on 0121 234 7663 or send an email to tawana.chin@aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role