Regional Broker Development Executive
Location: Northamptonshire
Package: £Negotiable + Car Allowance + Benefits
As we align Brown & Brown Underwriting to a common set of principles, we are looking to appoint a Regional Broker Development Executive to support our distribution partners across the Midlands & Eastern region.
This role reports directly to the Head of Sales and Distribution to ensure decisions can be made efficiently and you can deliver across all Underwriting programs, including strategy & appetite.
You’ll play a key part in our ongoing growth which over the last 12 months has been significant across our highly varied product ranges.
The day-to-day:
- Manage a specific geographical panel of distribution partners.
- Achieve budgeted income objectives for your broker panel.
- Develop a strategic, multi layered relationships across all allocated distribution partners.
- Understand business objectives & strategies for your accounts to align our proposition and deliver profitable growth.
- Ensure that you and your accounts have an excellent understanding of the Underwriting strategy & appetite.
- Understand, challenge and contribute towards delivering the broker strategy and plans. Introduce and promote solutions where appropriate to support this.
- To develop and implement a meeting strategy with brokers that includes face to face and virtual engagement.
- Develop a stakeholder engagement strategy with teammates across all area’s both internally and externally
- Maintain knowledge of, and build strategies to meet changing market conditions, including emerging risk
- Build a pipeline of opportunities to build long-term growth potential.
- Support the management, compliance and governance teams where necessary.
- Work at all times with the interests of Customers, Distributors and Underwriting teammates at all times.
- Work within agreed areas of expertise, and drafting in specialist support when needed.
- Working consultatively to understand the Brokers needs and Underwriting appetite.
- Implement MI and reporting to track the financial performance of the region and ensure financial performance is in line with or exceeds budget.
The rewards:
A fast-paced, agile and dynamic environment where the client is looked after as much as the team are.
A negotiable basic salary + Car allowance, coupled with all the normal benefits – Pension, DIS, Holidays. Coupled with access to the annual share save scheme.
Excellent career opportunities across both our evolving Underwriting platform as that continues to grow and scale and also the wider Brown & Brown operations.
About you; Skills and Understanding:
- Comprehensive understanding of general insurance
- Excellent relationship management skills
- Analytical capability, and able to form recommendations based on data and dialogue.
- Ability to understand, decipher and where necessary, challenge statistics.
- Commercially savvy – able to evaluate what will work financially and what will not.
- Ability to interrogate and interpret data/reports from a wide variety of sources.
- Highly motivated and well organised, with strong problem solving and decision-making capability.
- Proven negotiation skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing clearly and concisely