Job Description
Account Executive - Sales (Individual Protection)
Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.
Job Location: Brighton (3 days in the office, 2 at home)
- £27,000 - £31,500 (salary depending on sales and financial services experience)
- £54,000 OTE
We are a company guided by a solid set of principles (see below) and purposes such as diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our working culture provides flexibility and naturally a ‘hybrid’ working model as standard. We are part of the Women in Finance Charter, an initiative set up by the UK’s HM Treasury. We want to benefit from the many positives that come by having a more diverse working culture throughout all levels of seniority and lines of business. Our workforce enjoys excellent benefits, including private healthcare, a brilliant pension, and a host of other benefits to ensure you and yours are kept safe and protected.
MetLife Success Principles
- Build Tomorrow – We change and innovate for sustained performance
- Win Together - We collaborate and empower each other to succeed
- Own It - We deliver for our customers
You’ll be joining a business that is expanding, cares about the community and the environment. You will get a 9% pension as standard, increasing to 13% company max contribution (plus your 4% = a 17% pension). You can also get up to 31 days holiday, hybrid working, life assurance - employee, income protection, private medical insurance, mortgage advice, gadget cover, life assurance - partner, critical illness, travel insurance and dental cover.
Role Value Proposition:
As an Account Executive you will promote and sell MetLife’s Individual Protection product range predominately over the phone but also face-to-face to intermediaries to deliver against targets, whilst simultaneously delivering exceptional customer service and demonstrating MetLife’s values in all aspects of the role.
Imperative to the Account Executive role is building key relationships with a panel of advisers and engaging them with MetLife’s protection product. You will be there to support, motivate and drive a panel of advisers and will be the front-line support for MetLife Protection.
Account Executive Essential Experience:
- Relevant experience in a sales environment
- Minimum of two-year track record of delivering or exceeding sales targets
- Ideally a strong knowledge of protection products and their usage in the market
- Financial service/customer service/protection qualifications desirable
Account Executive Essential Skills:
- Excellent call handling skills; to listen, build rapport, acknowledge and deal effectively and efficiently with all adviser enquiries with the ability to proactively develop strong relationships over the telephone.
- Driven to continuously improve and be the best
- Personable, friendly, able to build relationships easily
- Self-organised and motivated, able to work on own initiative and manage a variety of tasks
- Articulate with strong communication skills
- Self-aware and empathetic
- Supportive and helpful team player
- Resilience to deal with setbacks positively
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MetLife will assist in the funding of Professional Fees for employees where it is relevant and aligned to your position within the organisation. MetLife reserve the right to make a judgement on whether the subscription is relevant or not to your role as well as cease the payment at any time. This type of subscription will not incur “benefit in kind” tax.
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