Total 3 Senior Executive level Administrative / Clerical job vacancies in North Kent, ME7 1AL

Insurance Sales Executive (Motor & Personal)

This role is based in Ashford and may require some travelling to meet local prospects. This is a Monday to Friday, 9-5pm, role (35hrs pw) with an hour lunch break. The salary range is £20-24k per annum, depending on experience, and comes with these benefits:

• 26 days holiday + bank holidays (after probation you can buy or sell 5 days)
• Birthday off
• Health Shield - Cash back plan
• Death in Service
• Free parking at all offices
• Friday fruit delivery
• 1 or 2 annual company trips a year

We are looking for someone to support the business strategy by delivering on personal sales targets for the relevant product line, maximising sales opportunities and ensuring customers receive the highest level of customer service.

You will be required to acquire and maintain knowledge of all current insurance products, contribute to the building of the new business sales pipeline by providing excellent customer service, taking inbound calls, providing quotes and securing sales. You will also deliver personal sales targets by planning, developing, and delivering sales opportunities in the relevant product line, as well as cross selling, introducing financial services products to existing clients and prospecting new clients. Plan and implement effective sales and marketing initiatives, offer excellent customer service, while demonstrating high values of trust and integrity.

It is an essential requirement of this role that the candidate has their own transport and a full, clean, UK driving licence.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A proven track record in highly driven and ambitious targeted sales role.
• Proven track record delivering excellent customer service
• Effective and professional verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
• Good IT skills especially Microsoft Office
• Good maths and problem-solving skills
• Able to manage own workload and able to work effectively under pressure
• Great team working, build relationships through positive behaviours, honesty, & integrity.
• Focus on continuous improvement, able to use own initiative
• Commitment to quality & compliance with procedures/regulations
• Own transport & full UK driving licence

Desirable attributes would be:

• Experience in a regulated environment
• Knowledge of insurance sector
• Proven track record in insurance sales
• General insurance qualifications
• Experience using Microsoft Dynamics

The role is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks and CCJ checks.

New Appointments Group, Expertly Matching Employers and Jobseekers since 1975. Committed to diversity, equality and opportunity for all. s.mcdermott@newappointmentsgroup.co.uk

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Job Description

The Communications, Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (CMCSR) vision expands the scope of marketing as a shared service for the enterprise and better aligns and integrates our corporate responsibility footprint. We seek to be a world-class Communications, Marketing and CSR team focused on driving results for the business and for our purpose. Serving the company in optimizing new market opportunities, strengthening the Blue Cross NC brand, delivering business value for sustainable growth, and integrating social and philanthropic initiatives into our corporate footprint, this division is laser focused on our purpose of improving the health and well-being of our customers and communities. Our Blue Cross NC Foundation is solely funded by Blue Cross NC and seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in North Carolina so that our state will be one of the healthiest in the nation, within a generation.  Blue Cross NC and the Blue Cross NC Foundation work together towards these goals. The work this role supports includes CM&CSR and the Blue Cross NC Foundation.

In your role as an Administrative Assistant, Senior Specialist, your primary duties will include the day-to-day support of two high-level executives – providing guidance for executive calendar needs, travel coordination and scheduling, meeting attendance, planning and coordination of events, and managing executive correspondence as needed. You will have an innate willingness to pitch in as needed for events and projects for the CM&CSR team and Foundation to support organizational success; a collaborative mindset to support emerging administrative needs of the division. You will also provide coverage for other Administrative Assistants in the division as needed and work as a team to provide seamless leadership support. On-site opportunities at our Durham campus will range between 6-8 times per year.

What You’ll Do

• Oversee Leader’s workflow including mail, calendar, correspondence, and telephone calls, determining priorities, preparing responses, and/or responding appropriately without errors and in a timely manner.
• Support Leader and other staff by scheduling, planning, and attending meetings as necessary.  Provide support to include expense reporting and travel planning.
• May act as coordinator of departmental projects, following up on pending details, coordinating project team activities and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Exercise considerable discretion and independent judgment and analyzes complex information request and determines complex trends.
• Maintain distribution lists and organizational charts.
• Coordinate activities and events in support of the department.
• Coordinate departmental moves and serve as liaison for IT services and upgrades.
• Assemble and analyze information to facilitate decision making.  Prepare special or one-time reports, summaries, or replies to inquiries, selecting relevant information from a variety of sources such as reports, documents, correspondence, other offices, etc., under general directions.
• Support departmental budget processes which could include running reports, simple budget analysis, and/or budget entries.

What You Bring

• High school diploma or GED
• 5+ years of experience in related field.

What We Like

• Prior experience supporting multiple executives with competing priorities for calendar scheduling
• Knowledge of travel scheduling, both NC-based and out-of-state
• Strong focus on customer service, to provide a high level of service to internal and external stakeholders
• Technical proficiency in Workday and MS Office suite

Avenues is a community where people smile, laugh, grow and achieve great things.

We are pleased to offer a new role for a full time Executive Personal Assistant to join our Executive department.

We are offering hybrid working and so the role will be based partly at our Sidcup office as well as working from home.

As a Personal Assistant you will work closely with senior managerial or executive staff to provide administrative support, usually on a one-to-one basis.

Trust is an absolute essential when building a positive working relationship between Executive and Personal Assistant. It helps to facilitate a working arrangement in which you will know instinctively what the Executive will want.

A Personal Assistant will need to work with a lot of other people when making arrangements for their Executive so you will need to be efficient, persuasive, and able to get what you need from individuals and organisations, building up lists of contacts and working out where best to apply pressure when needed.

Our ideal candidate looks like this!

• Ideally proven work experience as a Personal Assistant.
• Proven Microsoft Office experience.
• Experience in minute taking and undertaking secretarial duties.
• Experience of organising, supporting and servicing senior level meetings.
• Experience of prioritising own workload to ensure deadlines are met.
• Outstanding organisational, time and diary management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Discretion and confidentiality.
• The ability to work autonomously.
• Excellent technical proficiency, using a variety of IT applications and packages.
• Attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn.
• Be self-motivated.

For full details of the role please see the attached role profile.

Your values should match ours:

Respect: We treat people as we would wish to be treated ourselves.

Excellence: We don't settle for okay, we are determined to achieve more.

Integrity: We do the right thing, even if it takes more time and effort.

Pride: The work we do is something we want to tell others we are part of.

Benefits you can expect!

• Flexible Working including working from home.
• 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing after to 2 years' service and after 5 years' service.
• Access to high quality training that supports your career development.
• Free and confidential 24/7 access to the health portal and employee assistance programme.
• Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.
• Recommend a friend scheme.
• And more.

About us:

Avenues Group is a specialist charity provider of supported living, residential care and outreach services for people with autism, learning disability and complex needs. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to be an active citizen and engaged in the community where they live.

We encourage our central services employees to really get to know the organisation and to spend time visiting services, meeting people we support, their families and our support staff.

As a not-for-profit organisation, we're driven by strong ethics, and invest everything back into our staff and the people we support.​

You'll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its values at all levels, making sure the people we support are at the forefront of our decisions.

As part of our commitment to the "Disability Confident Scheme", candidates who declare a disability, and meet the key criteria for this role, will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview stage.

Don't miss out on this great opportunity - we are looking forward to hearing from you today!

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