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13 Sep 2021

Business Development Officer at UAP Group

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Job Description

Old Mutual Limited (OML) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 17 countries. Our primary operations are in South Africa and the Rest of Africa, and we have niche businesses in Latin America and Asia. We have 12 million customers and 31,000 employees as at the end of 2017 and with over 170 years of heritage across sub-Saharan Africa, we are a crucial part of the communities we serve and broader society on the continent. The business is listed on the Johannesburg, London, Zimbabwean, Malawian, and Namibian stock exchanges. The UAP Old Mutual Group comprises of three key players as a result of the acquisition of a controlling stake in Faulu in 2014 and UAP in 2015 by Old Mutual. The acquisition resulted in Old Mutual Kenya and UAP Holdings (www.uapoldmutual.com) as well as Faulu Microfinance Bank (www.faulukenya.com) forming one of the largest financial services groups with a growing footprint in East and Central Africa. The Group currently has operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Rwanda.  The Group now offers customers a comprehensive and enhanced range of financial services which include Investment, Insurance, Banking, and Savings as well as a wider and more accessible distribution network. The wider group also offers broad career growth prospects for employees. It therefore wishes to fill the below vacant position with qualified, experienced, and talented individual to strengthen its portfolio as a Pan – African Financial Services Group. The positions’ details are further outlined below.

Role Title:

Business Development Officer-1 Post

Business Unit(s):

Rwanda

Business /Function:

Business Development Officer

Location:

Rwanda

Reports To:

Marketing&Distribution Manager

MDP Level:

Manager of self

Role Size

M

Job Summary

To develop and grow the business by driving a good relationship between clients, brokers, and banks in a manner that ensures achievement of set business targets

Key tasks and responsibilities

  • Develop and grow Broker business line in a manner that ensures achievement of set business targets
  •  Identify sales leads and maintain a good working relationship with brokers and new clients
  •  Identify new business opportunities including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products, and services
  •  Manage Broker’s Account Managers, ensure strong relationships and drive performance towards targets achievements
  • Provide market insight to identify new business opportunities
  •   Manage and provide business support to brokers and effective after sales support
  •  Execute retention target on renewals to retain a broker and bank business
  •   Provide support services and training to broker account managers
  • Ensures acceptable levels of business retention (i.e. preservation of existing business) are maintained at all times; and any existing business lost due to unavoidable circumstances is replaced by other suitable accounts (over and above the new business acquisition target for the year)
  • Closely monitors customer service satisfaction to ensure renewals are not threatened; negotiates renewal terms well in advance and sends formal renewal confirmations to clients before the renewal dates
  •  Maintains, and regularly updates business progress reports
  • cover note control – to make sure all outgoing cover notes are properly used and returned for booking within 5 working days after being issued to clients.
  •  Weekly visits to intermediaries to make sure that the relationship is cemented and to do a regular audit on the issued UAP stationeries to the intermediaries

Academic/Professional Qualifications and experience

  • University degree in marketing or another related field
  • Basic Insurance qualification
  • Sales and Marketing Qualification
  • 3 to 5 years’ experience in marketing/sales role.

Skills and Personal Attributes

  • Good communication and negotiating skills
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Driven to deliver real value and quality service to a demanding and diverse client base.
  • Confident and self-motivated.
  • Quality orientation.
  • Honest, objective, and high integrity.
  • High standards of performance for self.


Method of Application

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Closing Date : 15th September , 2021.



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