Summary
Location
Johannesburg
Type
full-time
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About this role
Join TIH, home to some of South Africa’s leading financial service providers, and grow your career while being part of an organisation with purpose.
Job Purpose
Inbound or outbound policy sales, based on leads and campaigns. Initiate the customer relationship and meet various KPIs. Connect with the customer, conduct needs analysis and propose customer solutions. Needs a solid knowledge of products, their characteristics, and market as well as focus on growth of the brand.Responsibilities
Customer Relationships DevelopmentMake calls by telephone to allocated customers to develop new relationships or as a first point of contact.
Customer Needs Clarification
Interview the customer, following a complex multi-level sales script, to clarify the customer's requirements. Or assist in conducting interviews with potential customers to collect client requirements making detailed notes.
Set clear objectives for each sales call; use standard materials to make a presentation to the customer; and ask relevant questions to evaluate the customer's level of interest and to identify and respond to areas requiring further information or explanation.
Sell Customer Propositions
Identify the products or services that best meet the customer's stated needs, explain the selection to the customer, and invite the customer to make a purchase at the standard price/terms and conditions of sale. Use personal expertise to propose quantities within standard operating systems, policies and procedures. Explain the selection to the customer, influence the customer to make a purchase with the best benefits and solutions to meet customer needs.
Operational Compliance
Develop working knowledge of the organisation's policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Schedule call back and enter relevant information into the customer relationship management system after each contact with a customer to create a call plan and to ensure that the organisation has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Performance Management
Prioritise own workflow and ensure work is completed to the required standards of productivity, quality, and timeliness; use performance management systems to improve personal performance to meet SLA.
Personal Capability Building
Keep abreast with current changes in internal policies and procedures, external regulations which is facilitated by the online training system and tracked by a formal assessment.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Identify potential customers by obtaining information, referrals, and recommendations from existing customers.
Education
Matric / Grade 12 or SAQA Accredited Equivalent (Essential); Regulatory Exam 5, dependent on DOFA date (Essential); Full 150 STI credits, dependent on DOFA date (Essential); CPD hours (Essential); Class of Business Certificate (Advantageous); Degree and/or diploma in business/marketing (Advantageous)Experience
2-3 year telephonic sales experience (Essential); Experience in Financial Services Industry (Advantageous).Think you have what it takes to be part of an unstoppable team who constantly finds better ways to give peace of mind? Don't wait, apply now.
Other facts
About Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)
Telesure Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd (TIH) is the holding company of some of South Africa’s leading and innovative financial institutions.
These financial institutions are licensed to provide financial products and/or services ranging from short-term, long-term and health insurance as well as a comparison and investment platforms.
Our origins go back to 1 June 1985, when Auto & General Insurance was launched into the South African market. We have since grown into a group of subsidiaries of which Auto & General now forms a part.
Today, we own some of South Africa’s most loved and recognisable brands, each finding a better way to give their unique group of customers peace of mind.
We exist to continuously find better ways to give people peace of mind, whether it is to protect what they own, their loved ones or their greater ambitions and life plans they’re working so hard for.
We’re proven pioneers with a hunger for doing and being the best we can, bringing customer-focused innovation and service excellence to the financial services industry.
We’re an undivided team of diverse thinkers and doers who believe in leading through technology and pushing past their limits.
TIH is a licensed controlling company.
What you'll do
- The Outbound Sales Consultant is responsible for developing customer relationships through outbound calls and conducting needs analysis to propose suitable solutions. They must adhere to operational compliance and manage customer data effectively to support business development.
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