Insurance Expert

** Job Type:
** Permanent
* * Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
**** About Hiscox UK
** Hiscox UK is a leading brand in the insurance market, recognised as setting the standards others try to emulate. We consistently deliver strong growth and exceptional returns, recruiting only the very best and empowering them to deliver. We are known for insuring the homes of the rich and famous through to the most innovative technology companies. Our customers are diverse and unique and are only united by our ability to provide specialist insurance tailored to their needs.
** The Role
** As an Insurance expert you will be an expert in inbound and outbound phone based customer service, helping to support the workflow and email request from our customers.  Providing a customer centric timely response to customer enquiries, collecting relevant information, creating new business insurance product based quotes, making adjustments to insurance policies and helping our customers make informed decisions about our product range, enhancing outcomes we deliver to our customers, demonstrating values and behaviours that put customers, and vulnerable customers, needs at the heart of the day to day actions carried out within the role.
** What you’ll be doing
** The work of the team follows a set process, for a variety of different phone based tasks and this will include:
* Broker focus, deliver a best in class service directly to our Brokers
* Offer all Brokers a knowledgeable and trusted insurance experience
* Make changes and service our brokers through the delivery of an exceptional customer service
* Engage with customers using their channel of choice, predominantly telephone but also through email, webchat and social media
* Manage all current Hiscox client enquiries and adjustments efficiently and professionally
* Achieve first-time and single-point resolution in every contact
* Encourage engagement in Hiscox media channels
* Ensure all policy documentation and post-contact actions are completed appropriately
* Build rapport and demonstrate empathy with our Brokers
* Confidently respond to your Brokers questions and challenges
* Offer your customers alternative solutions to ensure they receive the best experience with Hiscox
* Engage with the customer appropriately to encourage advocacy, brand loyalty and improve retention opportunity
* Actively seek to gain new business
* Quickly develop and continually improve your knowledge of the insurance products
* Share your knowledge and learning internally in order to improve the Centres expertise and the customers insurance experience
* Develop strong internal relationships with Underwriting, Claims, Customer Relations and Marketing to enable mutual support
* Work with marketing and insight teams to share your knowledge of our customers
** Performance measures for success
*** Actively contribute to your team, and the centres service levels and targets
* Deliver exceptional service and meet revenue goals
* Quickly appraise and identify your Brokers suitability to be underwritten
* Help the business gain quality customers and be risk aware
* Actively seek ways to improve your service through the technology and systems available to you
* Adhere to all relevant compliancy requirements
** Our must haves
*** You do not need insurance experience as full training will be provided.
* Experience with in a customer/client focussed sector
* Team player – you’ll have worked as part of a team, and have actively contributed to its success
* Continuous Improvement – the ability to identify improvements, and be involved in implementing them
* Excellent verbal communication and clear written (high standard of spelling and grammar) communication in a customer focussed environment
* Proven skills in taking ownership and managing your own workload
* You are clearly customer focussed, you do not accept ‘second best’, and strongly believe in service excellence
* You take satisfaction and reward in knowing you have delivered the best service possible to your customer
* You are a good, clear communicator who builds rapport and trust easily, you’re someone who finds it easy to build a conversation and demonstrate empathy
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