Employment Opportunities at Old Mutual Nigeria, 10th October, 2019


Old Mutual Nigeria consists of a Life Assurance and General Insurance business and provides a wide spectrum of insurance solutions tailored to meet unique individual and corporate clients' circumstances. We are recruiting to fill the position below:   Job Title: Worksite Team Lead Ref: 1371/NIGE/EU/Worksite Team Lead (Contract) -Lagos/Nigeria/270919 Location: Lagos AA/EE: Not Applicable Contract: Temporary / Contract Available: ASAP Category: Insurance Offer: Market Related Introduction

  • This role is responsible for managing and coordinating Financial Advisors in specific locations and is individually accountable, over periods of up to a year for ensuring sales targets and objectives of the teams are achieved. The role will coordinate specific managerial and technical tasks such as managing, advising, coaching/mentoring and training of Financial Advisors to ensure that sales targets are met.
Job Descriptor
  • Manages sales & expense budget for the sales teams against set targets
  • Make appointments; explore the customers’ financial needs in life-related investment and insurance needs areas, select appropriate product to meet these needs from the company’s product range.
  • Direct selling of various financial products to the customers
  • Basic quality check and processing of completed policy forms and KYC documents
  • Post- sales servicing and customer relationship management
  • Ensures delivery of customer value.
  • Manages, develops, appoints & trains Financial Advisors.
  • Ensures that compliance requirements are adhered to and deals with non-compliance issues pro-actively.
Key Result Areas Sales & Marketing:
  • Responsible for delivering the Sales Budget in Life and General Insurance
  • Accountable for monitoring and reporting sales engagement activities
Relationship Building:
  • Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers.
Team Effectiveness:
  • Individually accountable for Financial Advisors' time, tasks and output quality, over periods of up to three months.
  • Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others.
  • Plans & assigns work over periods of up to three months.
  • Creates a climate for optimal performance.
Competencies Client Focus:
  • Effectively meeting client needs; building inspiring relationships; and taking responsibility for client experience.
Decision Making:
  • The ability to make balanced and sound recommendations and decisions, by understanding issues and problems, evaluating the consequences of alternative solutions and to select the most appropriate alternative. Recommendations and decisions need to be implementable, effective and well thought through.
Gaining Commitment:
  • Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; adapting one's own style to accommodate the target audience.
Initiating Action:
  • Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; pushing beyond the boundaries and being proactive.
Sales Ability:
  • Develop approaches that best position products, services and financial advice to prospective clients to illustrate the customer value proposition. This leads to proper closure of the sales / financial advice intervention.
Team Orientation:
  • Willingness to work with others in a team environment. This includes working towards team goals, participating in decision making, co-operating with others and offering assistance when needed.
Qualification
  • A first degree from a tertiary institution
  • Minimum 2-4 years Sales experience in Insurance sales. Exposure to Life and General Insurance will be a unique advantage
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Job Title: Retail Area Manager Ref: 1370/NIGE/EU/Retail Area Manager - Port Harcourt/Nigeria/270919 Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers AA/EE: Not Applicable Contract: Permanent Available: ASAP Category: Insurance Offer: Market Related Introduction
  • This role is responsible for managing team leads and coordinating overall branch activity in various locations. The appointee will be individually accountable, over periods of up to one (1) year for ensuring sales targets and branch objectives are achieved.
  • The incumbent will also perform a number of managerial and technical functions including; advising, coaching, mentoring and training of sales force to ensure that targets are met.
Job Specification
  • Manages sales & expense budget for the sales area against set targets.
  • Responsible for distribution strategy of Old Mutual products
  • Coordinating the acquisition and management of worksites
  • Delivery of Financial Education and other market penetration activities
  • Identifies opportunities & coordinates market strategies
  • Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers
  • Ensures delivery of customer value proposition
  • Accountable for the appointment, development and training sales team leads and advisors
  • Ensures adherence to all compliance requirements (including regulatory requirements)
Key Result Areas Sales & Marketing:
  • Responsible for the achievement of Area Sales Budget for Life and General Insurance
  • Accountable for monitoring and reporting sales engagement activities
Relationship Building:
  • Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers.
Team Effectiveness:
  • Individually accountable for sales team leads and advisors i.e. tasks and output quality
  • Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others
  • Plans & assigns work over periods of up to three months
  • Creates a climate for optimal performance.
Qualification
  • A first degree from a tertiary institution
  • Minimum 5 years Sales experience in a team management role. Exposure to Life and General Insurance will be an added advantage
Competencies Client Focus:
  • Effectively meeting client needs; building profitable relationships; and taking responsibility for client experience
Decision Making:
  • The ability to make balanced and sound recommendations and decisions, by understanding issues and problems, evaluating the consequences of alternative solutions and selecting appropriate alternatives
Gaining Commitment:
  • Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; adapting one's own style to accommodate the target audience.
Initiating Action:
  • Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; pushing beyond the boundaries and being proactive.
Sales Ability:
  • Develop approaches that best position products, services and financial advice to prospective clients to illustrate the customer value proposition.
Team Orientation:
  • Ability to work with others in a team environment. This includes working towards team goals, participating in decision making, co-operating with others and offering assistance
Technical Knowledge:
  • Having achieved a Full performance level of technical knowledge, related to a specific role.
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Job Title: Worksite Team Lead Ref: 1372/NIGE/EU/Worksite Team Lead (Contract) - Port Harcourt/Nigeria/270919 Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers AA/EE: Not Applicable Contract: Temporary / Contract Available: ASAP Category: Insurance Offer: Market Related Introduction
  • This role is responsible for managing and coordinating Financial Advisors in specific locations and is individually accountable, over periods of up to a year for ensuring sales targets and objectives of the teams are achieved. The role will coordinate specific managerial and technical tasks such as managing, advising, coaching/mentoring and training of Financial Advisors to ensure that sales targets are met.
Job Descriptor
  • Manages sales & expense budget for the sales teams against set targets
  • Make appointments; explore the customers’ financial needs in life-related investment and insurance needs areas, select appropriate product to meet these needs from the company’s product range.
  • Direct selling of various financial products to the customers
  • Basic quality check and processing of completed policy forms and KYC documents
  • Post- sales servicing and customer relationship management
  • Ensures delivery of customer value.
  • Manages, develops, appoints & trains Financial Advisors.
  • Ensures that compliance requirements are adhered to and deals with non-compliance issues pro-actively.
Key Result Areas Sales & Marketing:
  • Responsible for delivering the Sales Budget in Life and General Insurance
  • Accountable for monitoring and reporting sales engagement activities
Relationship Building:
  • Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers.
Team Effectiveness:
  • Individually accountable for Financial Advisors' time, tasks and output quality, over periods of up to three months.
  • Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others.
  • Plans & assigns work over periods of up to three months.
  • Creates a climate for optimal performance.
Competencies Client Focus:
  • Effectively meeting client needs; building inspiring relationships; and taking responsibility for client experience.
Decision Making:
  • The ability to make balanced and sound recommendations and decisions, by understanding issues and problems, evaluating the consequences of alternative solutions and to select the most appropriate alternative. Recommendations and decisions need to be implementable, effective and well thought through.
Gaining Commitment:
  • Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; adapting one's own style to accommodate the target audience.
Initiating Action:
  • Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; pushing beyond the boundaries and being proactive.
Sales Ability:
  • Develop approaches that best position products, services and financial advice to prospective clients to illustrate the customer value proposition. This leads to proper closure of the sales / financial advice intervention.
Team Orientation:
  • Willingness to work with others in a team environment. This includes working towards team goals, participating in decision making, co-operating with others and offering assistance when needed.
Qualification
  • A first degree from a tertiary institution
  • Minimum 2-4 years Sales experience in Insurance sales. Exposure to Life and General Insurance will be a unique advantage
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Job Title: Retail Area Manager Ref: 11369/NIGE/EU/Retail Area Manager - Abuja/Nigeria/270919 Location: Abuja AA/EE: Not Applicable Contract: Permanent Available: ASAP Category: Insurance Offer: Market Related Introduction
  • This role is responsible for managing team leads and coordinating overall branch activity in various locations. The appointee will be individually accountable, over periods of up to one (1) year for ensuring sales targets and branch objectives are achieved.
  • The incumbent will also perform a number of managerial and technical functions including; advising, coaching, mentoring and training of sales force to ensure that targets are met.
Job Specification
  • Manages sales & expense budget for the sales area against set targets.
  • Responsible for distribution strategy of Old Mutual products
  • Coordinating the acquisition and management of worksites
  • Delivery of Financial Education and other market penetration activities
  • Identifies opportunities & coordinates market strategies
  • Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers
  • Ensures delivery of customer value proposition
  • Accountable for the appointment, development and training sales team leads and advisors
  • Ensures adherence to all compliance requirements (including regulatory requirements)
Key Result Areas Sales & Marketing:
  • Responsible for the achievement of Area Sales Budget for Life and General Insurance
  • Accountable for monitoring and reporting sales engagement activities
Relationship Building:
  • Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers.
Team Effectiveness:
  • Individually accountable for sales team leads and advisors i.e. tasks and output quality
  • Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others
  • Plans & assigns work over periods of up to three months
  • Creates a climate for optimal performance.
Qualification
  • A first degree from a tertiary institution
  • Minimum 5 years Sales experience in a team management role. Exposure to Life and General Insurance will be an added advantage
Competencies Client Focus:
  • Effectively meeting client needs; building profitable relationships; and taking responsibility for client experience
Decision Making:
  • The ability to make balanced and sound recommendations and decisions, by understanding issues and problems, evaluating the consequences of alternative solutions and selecting appropriate alternatives
Gaining Commitment:
  • Using appropriate interpersonal styles and communication techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; adapting one's own style to accommodate the target audience.
Initiating Action:
  • Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives; pushing beyond the boundaries and being proactive.
Sales Ability:
  • Develop approaches that best position products, services and financial advice to prospective clients to illustrate the customer value proposition.
Team Orientation:
  • Ability to work with others in a team environment. This includes working towards team goals, participating in decision making, co-operating with others and offering assistance
Technical Knowledge:
  • Having achieved a Full performance level of technical knowledge, related to a specific role.
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Job Title: Distribution Support Administrator Ref: 1368/NIGE/EU/distribution Support Administrator (Contract) - Port Harcourt/Nigeria/270919 Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers AA/EE: Not Applicable Contract: Contract Available: ASAP Category: Insurance Offer: Market Related Introduction
  • This role is individually accountable for providing immediate response to administrative requirements in accordance with SLA parameters, in a processing environment. Technical knowledge is limited to some products and or processes.
Job Specification Descriptor:
  • Follows standardised processes and provides administrative support in line with normal business functioning.
  • Delivers on daily production standards and adheres to service and quality standards.
  • Provides an indirect service to customers and intermediaries.
  • Responds to immediate requirements within procedure.
  • Uses standard administrative techniques to coordinate own work.
  • Product and process knowledge in different areas may differ but basic skills remain the same.
  • Technical knowledge is limited to some products and or processes.
Key Result Areas Documentation Processing:
  • Responds to immediate administrative requirements within procedure
  • Follows standardized processes and provides administrative support in line with normal business functioning.
  • Delivers on daily production standards.
  • Uses standard administrative techniques to coordinate own work.
  • Prepared daily sales and submission reports to assist business leaders with key decision making and strategic operational planning.
  • Keep physical files and digitized records organized for easy updating, Handle petty cash, floats and expenses. and retrieval by authorized team members
Personal Effectiveness:
  • Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
  • Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of 1 day to a maximum of 3 months.
  • Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.
  • Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
  • Accepts and lives the company values.
Quality Assurance:
  • Performs quality checks on own work.
  • Adheres to service and quality standards
  • Detailed and result focused
Qualifications and Experience
  • A first degree or its equivalent.
  • Good Analytical skills (Knowledge of Excel and Word), technical/insurance product knowledge and relevant experience would be an added advantage.
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Job Title: Distribution Support Administrator Ref: 1367/NIGE/EU/Distribution Support Administrator (Contract) - Lagos/Nigeria/270919 Location: Lagos AA/EE: Not Applicable Contract: Contract Available: ASAP Category: Insurance Offer: Market Related Introduction
  • This role is individually accountable for providing immediate response to administrative requirements in accordance with SLA parameters, in a processing environment. Technical knowledge is limited to some products and or processes.
Job Specification Descriptor:
  • Follows standardised processes and provides administrative support in line with normal business functioning.
  • Delivers on daily production standards and adheres to service and quality standards.
  • Provides an indirect service to customers and intermediaries.
  • Responds to immediate requirements within procedure.
  • Uses standard administrative techniques to coordinate own work.
  • Product and process knowledge in different areas may differ but basic skills remain the same.
  • Technical knowledge is limited to some products and or processes.
Key Result Areas Documentation Processing:
  • Responds to immediate administrative requirements within procedure
  • Follows standardized processes and provides administrative support in line with normal business functioning.
  • Delivers on daily production standards.
  • Uses standard administrative techniques to coordinate own work.
  • Prepared daily sales and submission reports to assist business leaders with key decision making and strategic operational planning.
  • Keep physical files and digitized records organized for easy updating, Handle petty cash, floats and expenses. and retrieval by authorized team members
Personal Effectiveness:
  • Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
  • Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of 1 day to a maximum of 3 months.
  • Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.
  • Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
  • Accepts and lives the company values.
Quality Assurance:
  • Performs quality checks on own work.
  • Adheres to service and quality standards
  • Detailed and result focused
Qualifications and Experience
  • A first degree or its equivalent.
  • Good Analytical skills (Knowledge of Excel and Word), technical/insurance product knowledge and relevant experience would be an added advantage.
How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online   Deadline: 11th October, 2019.