Who Are We?
We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.
Job Category
Operations
Position Type
Permanent
Target Openings
8
What Is the Opportunity?
As a Sales Consultant, you will be on the front lines, helping the UK’s small business heroes and making sure they get the right cover to protect their livelihood. This role is not just a simple transaction; it is about being relatable and offering genuinely informed advice to new business customers.
What You Will Be Doing
- Driving Growth: Handling inbound and outbound calls to sell new policies to prospective customers, taking them through the new business sales process from start to finish.
- Ensuring Accuracy: Processing card payments and Direct Debits with top‑tier attention to detail.
- Championing Quality: Delivering exceptional customer service while expertly navigating regulated guidelines and ensuring mandatory compliance information is delivered clearly on every call.
What You Will Bring To The Team
- Sales Experience: You have worked on the phone in an environment driven by targets and KPIs.
- Quality Focus: You are entirely comfortable with quality assurance practices, such as routine call listening, and understand the importance of delivering compliant information on regulated calls.
- Resilience: You work well under pressure, remain focused, and are naturally curious.
- Industry Knowledge: Ideally, you have experience in a regulated environment, or you possess transferable skills that make you a perfect fit.
Salary & Performance-Based Progression
We Believe In Rewarding Your Growth And Success. Alongside a Bonus Structure Tuned To Your Sales That Provides An On-Target Earnings (OTE) Of Circa £33,000, We Offer a Clear, Positive Pathway To Increase Your Basic Salary Based On Your Performance.
- Starting Salary: £27,280.50
- £28,411.50 – With a view to moving to this tier within your first 6 months, all being well.
- £31,648.50 – Opportunity to progress after 12 months at Tier 1, driven by high performance.
- £34,866.00 – Opportunity to progress after 12 months at Tier 2.
- £40,033.50 – Opportunity to progress after 12 months at Tier 3.
Logistics & Work-Life Balance
- Start Date: We are gearing up for a new intake on the 10th of August.
- Working Pattern: This is a hybrid role. You will work eight days per month from our Northampton hub. We will provide all the equipment you need to work from home on the other days; you just need a hardwired broadband connection with a speed of 20Mbps or more.
- Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. You will also work 1 in 3 Saturdays from 9am to 2pm, which will start after your first 3 months. Saturday shifts are paid as overtime on top of your basic salary.
What Are The Benefits Of Working At Simply Business
- Great work‑life balance with manageable workloads and flexibility to work hybrid.
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), with the option to buy five additional days of holiday through our flexible benefits.
- Flexible parental leave: up to six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay for the secondary caregiver.
- Life event leave: an extra days leave every two years for significant moments such as moving house or a birthday. Long‑serving employees receive a two‑week paid sabbatical after five years, then four weeks after ten years.
- Private medical insurance through BUPA covering any pre‑existing condition as a core benefit, plus a health cash plan covering everyday medical expenses.
- Competitive salary based on experience and market, with potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.
- Access to a dedicated learning platform and support for mental health through counselling.
- Pension match up to five percent, and a tax‑free sum of up to four times your basic salary through our life assurance policy, with the option to increase to ten times via our flexible benefit scheme.
- Salary sacrifice car scheme, offering a brand‑new, fully insured, and maintained car for a fixed monthly amount after six months service.
- Flexible benefits scheme allowing you to allocate an annual amount to benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.
Employment Practices
Simply Business is committed to providing equality and opportunities for all employees and candidates considering a career with us. We offer a workplace where colleagues are treated with respect and dignity. We don’t (and won’t) discriminate either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation or relationship status at any stage of the hiring process or during the course of your employment.
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