Branch Director

4 weeks ago

Suffolk, United Kingdom Ardonagh Advisory Full time

Branch Director - Bury St Edmunds - Suffolk, Anglia - ARD1010274

It’s an exciting time at Ardonagh Advisory, part of the Ardonagh Group, as through our continued growth and transformation journey, we are combining our General Insurance (GI) businesses. This journey brings a new, exciting opportunity for a skilled and experienced Insurance professional to join us at Ardonagh Advisory as an Insurance Broking Branch Director based inSuffolk, Anglia .

This new Branch Director role acts as the senior leader at a Branch level and will have overall accountability of all aspects of branch business(s). In this role you will have overall accountability for the delivery of the local P&L and be responsible for driving growth through improved retention, cross sales, and new client sales. As the senior local leader, you will set the standards of performance and behaviour, acting as a role model to others and leading and motivating the whole Branch team ensuring that they have the correct knowledge, skills, capacity, and resources to grow sales.

The primary focus of this role is providing strong, effective leadership of the Branch, driving and implementing the regional strategy and being accountable for the branch P&L. Overseeing all aspects of branch trading in line with budgets, and constantly reviewing the market and relevant sectors to understand new opportunities, performance against competitors in the market, identify challenges and threats from external competition and maintain key internal relationships with Ardonagh Advisory stakeholders. 

You can be based anywhere in the region within a reasonable distance from one of our General Insurance locations. 

Some of the key responsibilities include:

At branch level, you will lead and support the team to deliver the best customer outcomes meeting all Consumer Duty requirements whilst working collaboratively with your Regional Director to achieve financial targets for both your branch, region, and the whole GI business. 

Lead on all aspects of risk management, implementing plans which ensures every colleague meets risk and, where applicable, quality assurance requirements ensuring effective monitoring which highlights trends to enable actions and mitigations to be put into place. 

Work in collaboration with your Regional Director to highlight potential barriers to retention or new sales and promote opportunities for business growth, sharing good practice and ideas. 

Constructively highlight to the Regional Director any operational needs or requirements to ensure an optimal customer journey - balancing customer satisfaction and technical standards; implementing solutions, optimising resources, and managing workflow; driving standardisation and continuous improvement in the Branch, tracked, and monitored by meaningful MI. 

What we are looking for 

An experienced people leader who has a strong track record of delivering sales growth and leading teams to deliver revenue targets within a regulatory framework. 

Demonstrable experience in a management role within insurance and extensive knowledge of the insurance industry specifically placement and insurer relationships 

Proven track record of delivering both top and bottom-line performance and growth, organically and inorganically.

Experience of managing client relationships 

Able to improve business performance, income, and employee engagement within a regulated environment through effective sales planning. 

Strong commercial leader with a commercial focus and financial awareness, e.g. understanding of the external market, company performance, market intelligence, business drivers, etc. 

Significant, proven experience of managing a P&L Budget

A robust understanding of business processes and performance levers

Ability to demonstrate leadership of driving new ideas and innovation.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels across our organisation. 

Flexibility to travel you must be available to travel to our various offices and attend meetings which could include overnights stays. 

This is a unique chance for an ambitious individual with a proven record who is looking for their next career move within Insurance in a fast paced, challenging and highly rewarding role. 

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family, an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are: 

• Holiday entitlement of 28 days plus bank holidays 

• Buy / sell holidays 

• My Benefits – our range of protection, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits you can

personalise that are designed to save you money and look after you and your family. 

• Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family 

• Gain CII or ACII qualifications to boost your knowledge and career prospects 

• Pension scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire 

• 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing 

• 1 days paid volunteering day to give back to our communities 

• The Spotlight Awards, where we shine a light on the brightest talent across our group 

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