Duties and Responsibilities

The Unit Manager will report to the respective Branch Manager and will be responsible for recruiting life insurance agents, training, managing and achieving results through individual sales in line with the organization objectives.

• Achieve unit business targets including production, persistency, productivity, and manpower growth.
• Identify appropriate markets and market techniques
• Formulate and implement innovative sales techniques to increase unit sales
• Conduct weekly and monthly performance management and review of sales
• To build and maintain good public relations with policy owners, the business community, professionals, and government agencies within the Unit territory in liaison with the Branch Manager.
• To recruit, select, motivate supervise, train, develop and manage the agents under your jurisdiction.

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies

• A minimum of a business degree in a related field-postgraduate qualification in sales and marketing would be an added advantage.
• Must have a valid IRA Licence for the current year as well as renewed 2022
• Proven good performance record of 3 years from a financial institution or insurance
• Good knowledge of life business
• Good interpersonal and organization skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, multi-faceted team environment
• Proficient in Microsoft office suite.
• Good problem-solving skills
• Ability to coach and mentor a team
• Prior experience in leading a sales team within the insurance industry is an added advantage