Total 2 Senior Executive level Administrative / Clerical job vacancies in Maidstone, Kent, me14 5pp

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.

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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!

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme