New Business Commercial Account Executive

**New Business Commercial Account Executive - Development Exec**

**The company: Marsh Commercial**

We are Marsh Commercial, a diverse community of colleagues, serving a diverse community of clients with insurance, risk management and employee health and benefits advice and solutions.

**The role: New Business Commercial Account Executive**

We have a fantastic opportunity to join our Leeds office as a **New Business Commercial Account Executive** focussed on identifying and winning new business for risks in the Health & Care sector. This is the perfect role for an individual with an experienced insurance broking background with ambitions to join and flourish at a market leading insurance broker.

This position is located in our Leeds office however; the successful individual will have the opportunity to split their working week between the physical office and remote working.

Working within an established team as part of a preeminent global broker allows you to further develop your career whilst opening the door to a myriad of opportunities in the future.

**What can you expect?**
- A platform to use your relationship building and stakeholder management skills in order to maintain & grow a portfolio of commercial insurance clients
- To use your client management abilities to ensure excellent client retention
- To demonstrate your self-motivated and hardworking nature to meet and exceed set income targets
- An opportunity to progress your career with a market leading broker
- To use your network of contacts to identify opportunities in order to generate new business
- To drive quality, consistency and accuracy in all aspects of the sales process

**What you will be rewarded with?**
- Competitive Benefits Package including: 27 days annual leave, excellent pension contributions, private medical cover, life assurance, income protection, employee assistance program, plus a range of flexible benefits including the option to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday per year, cycle to work, dental insurance, health assessments plus many more.
- Generous Family Leave including: 6 months paid maternity leave, 4 months paid paternity leave, 6 months paid adoption leave plus shared parental leave options. To help ease the transition when you return to work you will be able to work 8 weeks at 80% of your normal work pattern and receive 100% of your normal salary.
- You will get in-depth on the job training and learn about insurance, insurance broking as well as building relationships within the business and outside with our partners.

**We will rely on you to**:

- Have a growth mind-set coupled with an ability to develop your own network and pipeline of mid-market clients through strategic and consultative relationship building
- Deliver sales and growth with a focus on commercial businesses
- Demonstrate excellent client retention skills
- Cover a large region utilising your diary management skills to ensure you maximise your client reach.
- Demonstrate strong team working ability in order to forge strong working relationships within the business to meet defined goals and targets

**What you need to have**:

- A strong commercial insurance background and the ability to manage and retain a portfolio of commercial insurance clients.
- Be able to generate leads and follow these up to build a strong pipeline of potential commercial clients
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Stakeholder management skills up to and including senior executive level

**What makes you stand out**:

- Insurance qualifications (or working towards qualification) i.e. CII, Dip CII, ACII
- Resilient with previous client facing sales experience
- Ambitious nature and a keen contributor within a team environment
- Articulate with strong client facing and stakeholder management abilities

**About us**

We are Marsh Commercial, a diverse community of colleagues, serving a diverse community of clients with insurance, risk management and employee health and benefits advice and solutions.

We help clients succeed by defining, designing, and delivering innovative industry-specific solutions that help them effectively manage risk. Our deep knowledge of both the industry sectors and communities we serve, combined with the time we take to fully understand and meet a client’s needs, is what sets us apart.

We're also part of Marsh and McLennan Companies (MMC) - a global network of experts in risk, strategy and people. For over 140 years, Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) has supported enterprise, helping clients realise, survive and grow in changing times.

We leverage the scale, expertise and access to the broad range of products and services provided by the wider Marsh & McLennan Companies for the benefit of our clients - whilst retaining the flair, flexibility and personal service that our clients have come to expect.

Marsh & McLennan Companies and its affiliates aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their gender expres