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Gallagher are seeking a Junior Account Handler to join their established Motor Trade team based in Sale. Working together with experienced Account Executives, you will provide superb yet varied services to our many customers. Full training will be provided.
The main aim for your role is to acquire optimum account retention and growth, via the account management and technical support that you provide. We encourage our customers to remain loyal, they do so because of the fantastic service!
This role sits within Gallagher's Commercial Broking Division, who provide carefully tailored business insurance, risk management and risk transfer solutions for large enterprises and multinationals. Reporting directly in to our Motor Trade Team Manager, you will work with experienced Insurance Professionals and together provide outstanding service to our customers.
Your Role
- Create documents for new customers about their insurance requirements
- Coordinate mid-term adjustments for existing customers and ensure all customer details are recorded accurately and entered onto system in a timely fashion
- Manage insurer queries in relation to customer policies. Confirm cover with relevant insurers, process policies and chase up outstanding documentation when required
- Secure delivery of policy documentation from insurers and check prior to approval and release by Account Executive
- Deal with account queries and credit control matters highlighting any concerns to account managers in a timely manner
- Grasp and apply fundamental legal and regulatory policy for internal policies and the insurance contract as required.
Your Skills, Experience and Qualifications
- A recent Graduate or School Leaver who is looking for an entry level position in insurance broking.
- Educated to degree, A-level or GCSE level
- Ambitious to learn a technical insurance role and develop a career in the insurance industry.
- Happy to work to targets within a regulated, measurable framework and achieved SLA’s Risk aware in handling customer information. Able to recognise potential risk and seek advice when required
- Due diligence and process driven to deadlines, happy to forward plan, organise and analyse information. Highly accurate with a strong attention to detail, using initiative when assisting team members.
- Be prepared to study towards a professional insurance qualification with the Chartered Insurance Institute.
- Fully proficient in MS office
- Eligible to work in the UK
What We Offer You
We want Gallagher to be the organisation that all our people are proud to be a part of and where everyone can call themselves one of our team. Where our culture is embracing of difference, where you can be the best and, perhaps most importantly, be yourself.
We are all different in some way. If we were all the same, and all thought the same, we would be vulnerable as a group. By welcoming and encouraging diverse opinions and backgrounds within our organisation, we will have a healthier, more innovative and ultimately more profitable business.
We invest in our talent through leadership academies, mentoring opportunities, professional qualifications, and development programmes. We are able to provide our colleagues with a platform to build on existing knowledge and an opportunity to learn new skills in a continuous improvement environment.
We provide a competitive benefits package, agile working, annual pay reviews, in addition to various flexible benefits (enhanced pension contributions, access to our discount portal and Gallagher Premiership Rugby Tickets to name a few!).
About Us
Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper. We live a culture motivated by The Gallagher Way, our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 30,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures. As a member of our global brokerage team, you’ll help our clients address risk, protect assets and recover from losses.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. Gallagher is committed to diversity of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
