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We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future.
Our Summer Internship Programmes are an investment in you and your career – they will give you a real job with real responsibility, gaining first-hand experience working in the Insurance Industry.
The Role
Our 8-week internship programmes offer you the opportunity to learn how our insurance business operates, work closely with various stakeholders, network across the business and engage in real project work within your chosen business area to make a tangible positive impact.
You’ll be supported every step of the way, with scheduled training from our Learning and Development department and a dedicated mentor on hand to guide you. Successful completion of the programme may even lead to you being fast-tracked through our graduate programme application process for 2024, subject to eligibility.
Job Specification
The Agency network is the heart of NFUM and ensuring this unique distribution model continues to meet the future needs of our customers is at the core of what agency department do. Its key focus is on enabling sustainable, profitable and high performing businesses that deliver an optimal customer experience. This is through support to the network right from Agent Recruitment, Leadership Development and investments into their businesses, through to setting our property footprint strategy and Target Operating Model. And as NFUM introduces new tools and processes the department manages change into the network and supports Agencies by creating operational efficiency benefits.
The department is also responsible for the commercial agreements and financial arrangements with our Agencies and is required to adhere to certain FCA regulatory requirements relation to these activities. It also maintains and develops the strong relationships that exist with the Farming Unions, our Regional Advisory Boards and Agent representative groups and continues to drive the future evolution of the agency network.
Join as a Summer Intern to work with the team and gain first-hand experience in what it takes to support our Agency Network on a day-to-day basis.
Person Specification
The most important thing we look for in Summer Interns is an enthusiastic, positive nature and a proactive attitude.
We also look for five key star qualities:
- Customer Focus – can you build positive relationships with customers and listen to their needs?
- Business Focus – can you use your technical skills to contribute to your team’s success?
- Personal effectiveness - Are you passionate about development and have a strong desire to learn?
- Delivers Results – do you take personal responsibility for delivering targets and goals? • Executes Successfully – do you manage and progress your own work, remain open to new ideas and adapt to change?
Qualifications
- Degree in any subject welcome, on track for a 2:2 honours degree.
- You will need to be available for the duration of the internship and on track to meet the degree requirements stated for your chosen programme.
- Our internship programmes are targeted at undergraduate students up to those in the penultimate year of university,
- If you are due to graduate before the internship begins, you will not be eligible.
- Please note, programmes may close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. Early submission of your application is therefore encouraged.
