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£16,600 + monthly bonus + £615 meal allowance and excellent benefits

Bupa is one of the UK's leading healthcare companies, and Membership makes up a key part of our business. We don't just provide a wide range of health insurance and protection products to our customers. We're here when they need us most; giving them the information they need to get through difficult times. We've a variety of roles, many of which don't need medical experience. Our environment's warm and welcoming, our facilities first class and every individual is here to make a difference. Roles are always rewarding. And you'll be rewarded too, with excellent benefits and career opportunities. Think you'd fit in?

This is a great opportunity to join a successful sales team as either a new business or existing business healthcare adviser.   As a Personal Sales Adviser, you'll feel comfortable and welcome in our customer focused sales environment where, in addition to enhancing customers' health and wellbeing, you can look forward to excellent benefits.  You'll be performing to set sales targets using a consultative sales approach, whilst ensuring service levels and customer satisfaction remain paramount. 

Key Responsibilities

• You'll be responsible for managing your own workloads in such a way that you'll be creating opportunities, achieving and increasing sales, persisting and converting targets.
• Working to specific daily targets and departmental standards, ensuring that a quality service to our customers is delivered and service levels are achieved.

• You'll be using a solution/consultative selling approach providing the most appropriate recommendations for prospective BUPA customers

• You'll be demonstrating that the interests of the customers are uppermost and you'll be treating them fairly and individually

• Maintaining excellent, professional relationship with customers, following up with additional information or contact as required

• You'll be ensuring that the statutory regulatory obligations under the Financial Services act and BUPA's own internal policies are adhered to.

Specific Skills

• You'll have telesales or call centre experience
• You'll also have well developed communication skills, including a polite and professional telephone manner

• You'll need to be team player and have excellent interpersonal skills. 
• You'll have the determination to succeed as well as the self motivation to achieve and exceed set targets
• You'll need empathy to listen and deal with customers sensitively and professionally
• You'll have the ability to persuade and influence customer opinion
• You'll have the flexibility to learn new approaches and adapt to changing working practices

• You'll have good knowledge of Windows-based technology

  

Why Work For Us?

• We'll look after you with our contributory pension scheme, bonus scheme and annual salary review
• We'll help balance your home and work life with 25 days holiday each year (pro rata for part time employees) and flexible working opportunities 
• We'll keep you in shape with free Bupa health screens, access to our 24 hour health line and subsidised gym allowance
• We'll give you regular training and coaching to support and develop you

• We have no shareholders, so any profit we make is re-invested to improve healthcare for our customers.

Think you could care about our customers? Then we'll care about you.

Our core values:

Accountable - Caring - Respectful - Ethical - Enabling - Dedicated

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