Account Developer

Role Description

The purpose of this role is for you to build and maintain long‑term sustainable trading relationships with a defined panel of brokers. You will be the primary point of contact for these brokers, coordinating Allianz’s proposition to market, and enabling profitable growth of the account in line with branch and team plans.

This is a hybrid role based in our Chelmsford office, with the expectation to be on‑site two days per week.

Pay:
Circa £35,000 per annum. Pay is based on relevant experience, skills for the role, and location. Salary is only one part of our total reward package.

In this dynamic role, you will lead broker relationships across the UK, focusing on Chelmsford panels. You'll drive business growth through innovative sales and product strategies while collaborating with Allianz teams to elevate our market presence. With opportunities to engage directly with brokers and promote key propositions, you'll be instrumental in shaping our success and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Below are your key responsibilities, along with the essential and desirable skills needed to achieve these goals:

• Manage brokers across the UK, focusing on the Chelmsford regional panel.
• Engage with brokers remotely via phone, video calls, and face‑to‑face meetings in the market.
• Develop business through sales and marketing initiatives, campaigns, new product launches, and existing product reintroductions, with your panel of agreed intermediaries.
• Liaise with various Allianz teams to raise awareness of business development activities, embracing One Allianz principles.
• Fulfill responsibilities set out within the Distribution Framework, ensuring defined sales disciplines are demonstrated.
• Promote our accelerator proposition, selling key features and participating in broker events.
• Maintain market awareness, monitor changes, and provide feedback to relevant stakeholders.
• Manage and appoint intermediaries across our broker segments, ensuring compliance with procedures, authorities, and regulations.

• Relationship management, networking, communication and negotiation skills.
• New Business or Sales Experience.
• Understanding of the customer and broker propositions offered by the Allianz Group.
• Awareness of the UK commercial insurance market.
• Awareness of business regulatory requirements.
• Experience of managing communication across all stakeholder groups and a wide audience of internal and external audiences.

• Previous experience of developing business in an intermediated environment is preferable.
• Working towards a CII qualification is preferable.

We support the government scheme “Access to Work” – please feel free to ask us about the access to work scheme.

• Flexible buy/sell holiday options.
• Hybrid working.
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Development days.
• Discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet.
• Retail discounts.
• Volunteering days.

Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements.

Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive – your work life balance is important to us.

At Allianz, we believe in fostering an inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to equal opportunities, gender equity, and balanced gender representation, is demonstrated by our numerous accreditations: EDGE certified for gender inclusion, Women in Finance Charter members, Disability Confident employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter signatories, and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard employer.

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