Insurance Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa - Santam

Santam

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

What will you do?
Santam Operations, Commercial Contact Centre have career opportunities available for Insurance Consultants base in Johannesburg, ( Centurion ). The insurance consultant role is focused on providing an end-to-end service and support to brokers. What will make you successful in this role?
This role is focused on, but not limited to; servicing broker requests, including enquiries.

Dealing with general insurance and policy specific enquiries;
Dealing with issuance of new policies/ policy maintenance/ renewal / agri aspects of policies;
Assisting to resolve all insurance queries within required timeframe and compliance requirements;
Undertaking client followups when policies are cancelled to ascertain the reasons and attempt to retain the policy onto books;
Undertaking to adjust premiums in line with new asset values;
Managing client expectation on expected turnaround times for submitted requests;
Adhering to underwriting criteria and regional requirements;
Assist with profiling the client with the best suitable product and underwriting criteria;
Advising brokers to ensure that we meet with clients' needs in terms of the correct cover and product;
Assisting in implementing solutions for improvement; and
Standing in for Consultants should they be absent or on leave during busy periods or absence of key resources, assisting where required.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Matric/ Grade 1 60 commercial lines FAIS credits
A relevant insurance related qualification (e.g. NQF lev 5) would be advantageous
Proven work experience in commercial, agriculture policy administration and underwriting within the shortterm insurance industry
Minimum of 3 years' experience in short term insurance commercial lines and/or Agri assets

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent interpersonal skills, collaborating with internal colleagues and external stakeholders/clients
Ensure adherence to quality, compliance and accreditation standards
Conduct efficient administration
Optimising work processes

Build a successful career with us
We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees.

We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things.

We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.

Through its four business clusters - Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Turnaround time
Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa.

We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper.

We're about people.

People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity.

This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society.

In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.