Skills Required: Office administration; Telemarketing; Target driven; IT literate (MS Office)

Excellent opportunity for a young and energetic individual with a background in telemarketing and administration to join a successful team based with one of the country’s biggest financial services companies.

You will be working for an experienced Financial Advisor based in Sandton. The Financial Advisor will be out of the office most of the time so it is essential that you can work independently and efficiently and to deadlines.

Your role will be to call potential clients and market a range of short- term insurance products, by way of comparative quotes i.e. comparing their existing insurance with something new. As this is financial services there will be a lot of administration so it is important that you have excellent attention to detail. There will be a commission structure in place as well.

Ideally, you will have some experience of working in the insurance industry and be comfortable calling people from a database of names. This is a very target driven job and there is the potential to earn a good commission if you do well. You should have at least a matric, be IT literate and be able to travel to Sandton every day.
Key responsibilities:

1. Telemarketing (some cold calling).
2. Persuading, explaining and closing.
3. Checking paperwork and ensuring accuracy and completeness.
4. Meeting activity targets.
5. Meeting deadlines.

You must be organized, self-motivated and target driven.