📍 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Sales

About this role

Job Title

 

Senior Sales Manager/Sales Manager

Function

 

Direct Marketing

Department

 

Direct Marketing

Reporting To 

(Title)

Area/Regional Sales Manager

Superior’s Superior 

(Title)

Zonal Manager

Unit

 

Birla Sun Life Insurance Company Ltd

Location

 

Zone

Business

 

Life Insurance 

 

 

 

                            

 

 

 

 

 

Desired Candidate Profile and Experience

 

a)    4–6 years of experience in Bancassurance sales (Life Insurance)/open market experience

b)    Hands-on experience in generating business through Partnerships/Self Sourcing/Referrals 

c)     Strong understanding of customer profile

d)    Generate insurance leads through referrals, branch walk?ins, customer data mining

 

What to look for in a candidate:

1.      Presentable, communication skills with quick check on basic maths. 

2.      Check energy levels, hunger for growth & for incentives.

3.      Look for success stories of sales closures done through open market if any

4.      Team Handling

 

1)  Job Purpose

a)    Drive Life Insurance Business from fresh customer acquisition across campaigns

 

b)    To ensure all the pre and post sales support and services 

 

 

c)     To achieve Sales Targets as defined by the organization

 

 

2) Dimensions 

What are the areas (in quantitative terms) the job has an impact on?

 

 

Dimension

Remarks

1.

Manpower (Nos.)

Direct: 5-7

Indirect: N/A

 

2.

FYP Targets

 

 

3.

NOP Targets

 

 

4.

Renewal Collection on orphan Base

 

 

 

3) Job Context & Major Challenges

(What are the specific aspects of the job that provide a challenge to the jobholder in the context of the Unit/Zone?

Key Challenges for the role –

 

·         To identify new Life Insurance customers 

 

·         To ensure differentiated and segmented approach to various campaigns

 

·         To manage attrition of the front-line sales force

 

 

 

4) Principal Accountabilities

Accountability

Supporting Actions

Acquire New Life Insurance Customers

1.     Acquire new customers from Partnerships, Referrals

2.     Lead generation from these new customers

 

 

Achieve Targets related to Premium and NOP  

 

3.     Allocate leads to the team members as per targets decided.

4.     Periodically monitor and review performance on the assigned topline and health parameters

5.     Handhold and guide them on the sales process, lead conversion and closure of sale

6.     Aggressively downloading all the RnR activities running by the organisation. 

 

Executes smooth function of the sales and other processes in order to maximise business potential.

1.     Communicating any process change or change in any rules and regulations by the help of different training module.

2.     Ensure that actual sales and service aspects including sales calls, issuance and complaint handling are carried out without any blocks

 

Ensure relevant people in the right place right time in order to maximise the productivity 

1.   Understanding the strength of the resource and depending on that allocating job responsibility 

2.   Evaluating the opportunity of each business unit and allocating targets as per that.

 

Execute the right method of business acquisition in order get the profitable mix for the organisation  

1.     Scrutinise the business on regular basis and give the relevant information to superiors

2.     Achieve Persistency targets as per the company norms so that renewals take place on time 

3.     Take corrective actions related to persistency and health  

Recruitment & Training

1.     To ensure recruitment of team on a time based manner.

2.     To manage attrition within the specified limits.

3.     Ensure through continuous on the job training, skill enhancement of team members.

 

 

 

5)  Job Purpose of Direct Reports 

 

Direct Sales Executive: To achieve the Sales and health targets set for them as per their goal sheets.

 

 

6)      Relationships (If Applicable)

Internal

Frequency

Nature

Support Executive’s

 

Trainers 

 

HR

 

Issuance Coordinator

Client Service

 

 

 

 

As and When Required

 

To Log-in and receipting Policies.

 

For arranging trainings for the team as well as for the relationships.

 

 

To Ensure the policies are Issued on time.

 

Service-related issues.

External

Frequency

Nature

Relationship 

Daily

Business Development and to ensure the smooth sailing, 


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