Job Description

Hours of work:

10:00am-6:30pm Monday - Thursday and 9:30am-4:30pm Friday

Website:

Job Type:

Permanent

Salary:

per year

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge where you can truly make an impact? Do you thrive on building relationships, driving growth, and working in a fast-paced environment?

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team at Waddle. In this role, you'll play a crucial part in driving the growth of our external introducers, while building and maintaining strong relationships. Working closely with our internal teams, you'll collaborate to deliver outstanding service and ensure the continued success of the business.

If you're enthusiastic, ambitious, and eager to take your career to the next level, then Waddle is the place for you.

The Role

As our Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for identifying new opportunities, managing introducer relationships, and implementing strategies to drive business growth. You will represent Waddle externally, building trust and credibility with partners while working internally to ensure clients receive the best possible service.

Key Responsibilities

Drive business growth by developing and maintaining strong relationships with external introducers and partners. Conduct market research to identify potential clients and understand their needs. Generate new business using existing and potential customer networks Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and loyalty. Present and promote the firm's services to prospective clients. Identify new business opportunities and contribute to growth strategies. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure seamless delivery of services and client satisfaction. Monitor and report on business development performance and market trends. Support the achievement of team and company-wide growth targets.

About You

Proven experience in business development, account management, or relationship management (insurance industry experience preferred but not essential). Strong networking and relationship-building skills. Results-driven with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities. Excellent communication and negotiation skills. Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Motivated, ambitious, and eager to contribute to the success of a growing company.

What We Offer

Competitive salary A supportive, collaborative, and dynamic team culture. Opportunities for professional growth and career progression. The chance to play a key role in shaping the growth of Waddle.

The Company

Waddle is a fast-growing protection insurance company with over twelve years of experience within the industry. Waddle is a highly respected company within the insurance industry, held in high regard for our unique processes and always putting the client's needs and requirements at the forefront of our business. Over the last seven years Waddle has expanded to new heights and now has two offices, both in the heart of the Uplands, Swansea, with fifty members of staff - and growing.

Training and Development is a massive part of our company, and we continuously look to develop our employees in their role and future roles within the company. We have a committed training programme that begins when you first step in the door here at Waddle and will continue throughout your employment. We utilise a range of in house and external training programmes that will allow you to gain accredited, professional qualifications as you progress within your career.

Culture

Our workplace culture is very important to us here at Waddle. As the company has grown our focus on workplace culture has developed and grown with it. That includes both of our offices being dog friendly! We have a wonderful variety of office dogs who boost office morale and generally make our days better - make sure to check them out on our Instagram page.

As part of our focus on Health and Wellbeing within Waddle, as a company we take pride in making home cooked meals (all prepared in our in-house kitchen), creating new and tasty smoothies, as well as weekly running and tennis club after work that is open to everyone

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What to Expect from Working with Us

*You will join a vibrant team where collaboration is encouraged across all projects and departments.

*Opportunity to put your ideas across in a live project from the get-go.

*One to one mentoring whilst learning your new role.

*Continuous training throughout your employment so you will be up to date with all new product knowledge.

*An exciting career path with the opportunity to progress into more senior roles.

*You will be joining a social and active company who places employee wellbeing at the forefront of their business.

Why Work for Us

Our workplace culture is very important to us here at Waddle. As the company has grown our focus on workplace culture has developed and grown with it. There are many benefits to working for us, such as:

*Staff away days

- Our away days are highly anticipated throughout the year. We split the company into two teams and appoint two new team captains each time. Our latest events have included paintballing, zorb football, go ape, heatherton and a Pen Y Fan hike!

Dog friendly offices

- We have a wonderful variety of office dogs who boost office morale and generally makes our days better, make sure to check them out on our Instagram page.

Regular home cooked meals

- Summer BBQs are always on the menu here at Waddle, as well as making curries from scratch and a spot of baking! We regularly make extra food throughout the month, so there is always a meal in the freezer for your lunch.

Dedicated training and development structure

- Here at Waddle we truly value the importance of developing our staff. All of our training is fully funded by Waddle that will help you develop your career at Waddle and beyond. It is a blend of internal and external training to include professionally accredited courses such as CIPD, ILM, CeMap, R05 and many more.

Benefits

*Early finish on Fridays

*Work Anniversaries and Birthday celebrations

*Company Events

*Free Food Days

*Dog friendly offices

Onsite gym
*Company pension

*28 days holidays

*Christmas office shut down

Click for more information regarding our benefits and company culture -

https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Waddle-Insurance/photos

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company events Company pension On-site gym
Work Location: In person