Our client in the short-term insurance industry is looking for a Sales and Administration Assistant in Sandton who will administrate and maintain a high quality of business reporting and provide dedicated support to the company's Sales management team including but not limited to; the National Sales Director; Managing Director and Operations Director.

Critical competencies

• Experience within the short-term insurance industry
• 2+ Years experience in a similar role
• Speak, write, and communicate in English perfectly, ability to speak other languages would be an advantage (Afrikaans is a preference)
• Team player
• Excellent communications skills verbal and written
• Previous sales interaction experience is compulsory
• Ability to deal with people at all levels, including making telephone calls with confidence
• Natural client interaction skills
• Displays initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to identify problems quickly
• Honesty and integrity
• Outstanding telephonic proficiency
• Conflict handling skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Sales Admin oriented
• Friendly and proactive nature
• Well-groomed/ well-spoken, presentable, and friendly
• Able to multi-task
• Advanced at Excel PowerPoint and Word competencies
• Results Driven
• Quality Orientation
• Sound judgment
• Teamwork and co-operation
• Natural orientation toward service excellence
• Professional, friendly, transparent, and confident communication skills
• Monitoring and tracking operative performance
• Excellent reporting skills
• Action Orientated
• Analytical Thinking & Decision Making
• Customer Focused
• Extroverted personality, Business Acumen, and communication vital
• Process Management
• Self-Development

Job description Duties:

• Achieve daily, weekly, and monthly sales targets as set by the business – this will be monitored ongoing.
• Take minutes of sales meetings (internal and external) and distribute them timeously by recording and transcribing the minutes.
• Plan and coordinate external sales meetings through effective meeting co-ordination and events planning
• Managing the daily tasks effectively on a daily task sheet as well as managing and maintaining the Salesforce CRM platform
• Identify new and exciting sales opportunities
• Continuous learning and development of the company’s products
• Preparing sales templates/quotes sending out sales mailers and keeping accurate records of all sales interactions daily.
• Attend and present at potential client meetings/workshops with the Sales Staff
• To generate, track, monitor, and maintain all business data and business reporting to support business decision-making.
• Typing, editing, and composing of correspondence, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and sales reports as required
• Ensure effective and efficient management and coordination of all meetings for management and exco levels
• Proofreading all reports and documents

A career-focused mentality is required with a mature working standard that can stay calm and focused under pressure. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, driving, researching leads, and managing Sales and the administration for all new business activities to assist management in fulfilling sales and growth objectives. One of your key objectives is to play a pivotal role in helping acquire and solicit new business prospects to help grow the business's client base. The company will endeavour to provide you with all the necessary tools, skills, and mentoring to ensure your personal development goals are achievable but initiative, positivity, and focus are traits expected to fast-track such outcomes