Broker Consultant

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Job Summary

Zurich Life Assurance plc is looking for a Broker Consultant who has the ability to partner with our extensive relationships with Financial Brokers/Advisors. As a Life Broker Consultant within Zurich, the successful candidate will be part of the strongest and most successful Broker Consultant Team operating in the Irish Financial Services Market.

This role is a controlled function under the CBI Fitness and Probity Standard.

This role may be available part-time or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

Your role

As a Broker Consultant your main responsibilities will include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

• Work closely with Financial Brokers/Advisors, allowing them to deliver superior service to their clients.
• Understand the needs of a panel of Financial Brokers/Advisors and their clients and help fulfil those needs with the use of Zurich products.
• Work to exceed targets by building and growing profitable relationships with our Financial Broker/Advisor network.
• Identify how the technical expertise within Zurich can be properly focused and delivered to the Financial Broker/Advisor network.
• Be a business partner to the Financial Broker/Advisor and deliver the help needed for them to expand and be more efficient in running their own business.
• Create, develop and manage relationships with a panel of Financial Brokers/Advisors to promote Zurich and drive sales.
• Understand the market place and industry developments when dealing with our distributors.
• Understand how the Irish Financial Broker/Advisor business works – current position, future aspirations and how Zurich can partner with them.
• Improve and update product and market knowledge and apply knowledge appropriately.
• Manage own priorities and make effective use of resources available

Your skills & experience

As a Broker Consultant your skills and qualifications will include:

• Strong technical knowledge of life, investment and pension products.
• Strong academic qualifications, minimum QFA qualified together with a commitment to attain relevant technical insurance qualifications.
• Excellent and deep understanding of the intermediary marketplace, competitors, as well as intermediary business models.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to adapt style to the individual needs of intermediaries and able to network and successfully build relationships.
• An ability to engage on an individual and/or group basis through high degree of presentation skills with an ability to make a positive impact and build rapport with others.
• Self-motivated, goal orientated and resilient.
• The ability to achieve qualitative and quantitative individual targets under set business targets.
• Effective personal organisational/business planning skills.
• Proven ability to think creatively and to innovate.
• Problem solving, decision making and solid business judgement.

Additional Information

Primary work location is Blackrock, Dublin. Position is Dublin-based but occasional travel may be required to other Zurich locations.

If you value an exciting and varied working environment and meet the above requirements, then our recruiter is looking forward to receiving your application by clicking on the button “Apply online”.

Who we are

Zurich is one of Ireland's leading insurance companies providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. The company employs over 1,000 people across its locations in Dublin and Wexford.

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading global multi-line insurer founded more than 150 years ago, which has grown into a business serving more than 82 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories, while delivering industry-leading total shareholder returns.

Reflecting its purpose to ‘create a brighter future together,’ Zurich offers protection services that go beyond traditional insurance, to support its customers in building resilience. Since 2020, the Zurich Forest project supports reforestation and biodiversity restoration in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.