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Engagement: Building and Solidifying Relationships:\nCommunicate the SSS message to our intermediary market, including team & people updates, product updates, and risk appetite.\nActively listen to our intermediaries to gather feedback on expectations, problems, service, and market intelligence (changes, competitor analysis, rate changes, and opportunities).\nCreating Broker profiles with a comprehensive analysis to understand the broker holistically:\nStrategic Objectives: Understand the broker's own business goals, target markets, and growth ambitions.\nFinancial & Operational Metrics: Analyze their GWP, client portfolio size, areas of specialty, and operational strengths.\nCurrent Relationship Mapping: Assess the volume of business placed with us, the specific clusters/products used, and our overall share of their wallet.\nKey Personnel & Structure: Identify decision-makers, influencers, and day-to-day operatives within the broker firm.\nCompetitor Landscape: Determine which other insurers they use, the competitor's share, and the perceived strengths/weaknesses of those relationships.\nPerception & Feedback: Gauge their view of our service, underwriting appetite, competitiveness, and overall value proposition.\n\n2. Business Development: Transactional Focus\nNew Business: Identify and validate true cross-sell opportunities through a review of the Top renewals per business unit/cluster.\nRetention: Work with Business Unit Heads to promote business retention and packaging of SSS offerings within appetite, ensuring clarity on strategic accounts and timeous access to renewal lists.\nLost Business: Analyze lost business data to understand market positioning and inform strategies to re-obtain submissions.\nBuild, manage, and optimize a pipeline of prospects, tracking progress and forecasting accurately.\nDrive business development visits to establish new relationships and maintain the existing broker network.\nImplement structured engagements with agendas, action items, and tracking, maintaining records in shared folders/systems.\n3. Business Intelligence and Data: Reporting Focus\nConduct monthly, quarterly, half-year, and full-year analysis, concluding data and present agreed reports to management.\nDeliver Monthly, Quarterly, Half-year & Full Year feedback to Head of Business Development SA, including:\nGWP Data (New Business, Lost Business, Retention Ratios).\nCompetitor Feedback (new entrants, exits, key personnel changes, products/capacity).\nCross-sell opportunities.\nWork with Data Warehouse and Finance to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and that reporting rules are understood and aligned (e.g., for Broker Dashboards).\nProvide market intelligence relating to people movement, product competitiveness, coverage, and other pertinent aspects.\nEnsure provided data aligns with what each internal team reports on.\nQualifications and Experience\nInsurance-related qualification or relevant degree.\nFAIS Compliant\nRegulatory exam compliance.\n5 to 10 years' experience in Business Development in a Strategic role 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