Company Description
Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.
Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.
We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.
Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.
Recruiter: Clarice Wale clarice.wale2@landg.com Closing Date: 18/11/2024
Job Description
We’re recruiting for Consultants to join our Group Protection team. This is a hybrid role, whereby we have a requirement that you will work a minimum of 1 day a week in our Hove office, Monday-Friday between our core hours of 8-6. The salary we are offering is £24,000 along with the option for you to progress after 6 months which also gives you a salary increase of up to 10%!
As a customer service consultant your customers are brokers and the role is predominantly focused on account and relationship administration.
What you'll be doing:
* Support the onboarding and continued scheme maintenance of Group Protection policies so we remain a top provider
* The tasks are varied, meaning you’ll be talking to colleagues, brokers and customers regularly. It’s important to note that this role is a hybrid role which will involve administrative work or processing work and you will be talking to customers and brokers on the phone too
* Dealing with all correspondence from our internal and external customers, With attention to detail and pace so that the next tasks needed can be completed promptly
* Maintaining scheme data, administering, and updating records
* Collaborating with other team members to ensure that enquiries and issues are resolved quickly and efficiently
* Managing and organising your own work queue to ensure that service levels are met and brokers or direct customers are kept informed of progress
* For our most vulnerable customers, you’ll ensure you consider their circumstances and needs and take additional steps to support them through their interactions with Legal & General
Qualifications
Who we're looking for:
The skills below are important to us. Rest be assured, we will show you the L&G way. You’ll be in induction for a couple of weeks so, you’ll have the tools you need before you start helping our customers and clients
* People who love helping people!
* Strong communication and administration skills and passion to support customers, whatever their personal circumstances. Build relationships with our internal and external customers
* Confidence in using a desktop or laptop and experienced in using MS Office
* Confidence in using Excel is preferred
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
* The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
* Generous pension contribution
* Life assurance
* Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
* At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
* Competitive family leave
* Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
* There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
* In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
Additional Information
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.
If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.
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