Discovery Limited

Business Consultant - Mpumalanga

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Job Description

Discovery

Sales and Distribution

Business/Broker Consultant - Mpumalanga

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Key Purpose

Increase the sales of the product range through building relationships, superior client service and technical knowledge

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

  • Increase the sales of the product range through building relationships, superior client service and technical knowledge.
  • Developing and maintaining broker relationships.
  • Review new business pipeline, follow-up and tracking.
  • Issuing of quotations.
  • Technical training of and ongoing product support to financial advisor.
  • Dealing with queries and providing information on a range of sales and service issues.
  • Liasing with internal departments on processing issues.
  • Building relationships with internal departments to ensure superior service is offering to clients.
  • Keeping up-to-date with competitor product and service offering and industry developments..
  • Participating in proactive sales and marketing initiatives

Key Responsibilities

  • Developing and maintaining broker relationships
  • Review new business pipeline, follow-up and tracking
  • Issuing of quotations
  • Dealing with queries and providing information on a range of sales and service issues
  • Liasing with internal departments to ensure superior service is offered to clients
  • Keeping up-to-date with competitor product and service offering and industry developments
  • Participating in proactive sales and marketing initiatives

Personal Attributes and skills

  • Own insured transport, cellphone and drivers license
  • Willingness to undertake business travel across South Africa
  • Assertiveness
  • Self-confidence
  • Honest and ethical
  • Resilience
  • Perseverance
  • Able to manage stressful situations
  • Results driven
  • Ability to work independently without supervision
  • Self-Disciplined
  • Able to influence and negotiate
  • Persuasive
  • Able to manage stress and stressful situations
  • Results driven
  • Ability to work independently without supervision
  • Self-Discipline
  • Able to influence and negotiate
  • Persuasive
  • Build strong relationships
  • Use own initiative
  • Decisiveness

Education and Experience

  • NQF5 in Wealth Management of Financial Planning
  • RE5 (Advantageous)
  • Knowledge of underwriting process
  • Broker consulting experience in the financial services industry
  • An understanding of financial planning
  • Knowledge of MS Office Suite

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

Discovery Limited

About Discovery Limited

Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to make this vision a reality.

Fuelled by our passion for enhancing lives and our desire to innovate, Discovery consistently sets global standards, creating shared value through shared intellectual capital. A testament to this is our Vitality programme, which is both a platform to incentivise people to live healthier lives as well as a channel through which shared value is delivered.

We are a proudly South African-born, global company with health, life and short term insurance operations in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and a presence in Germany, France, the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, China and Japan through our Global Vitality Network. We uphold our promise of shared value by being a positive disruptor that focusses on bringing about sustainable change in the lives of the people and communities we serve across the globe.

Our Vitality Shared-Value Insurance model has received international recognition, including being ranked 17th in Fortune’s index of 51 companies “changing the world” in August 2015, and named a leading health innovator at the World Economic Forum in January 2017.

Our values of leadership, honesty, innovation and fairness act as our compass, directing our business practices to take advantage of every opportunity while looking for ways to dazzle clients.

With an unwavering commitment to being the best shared value insurance organisation in the world, Discovery is a powerful force for social good.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1992
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