Posted:11 hours ago
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Insurance
Description:
Cigna is a global health service company, dedicated to helping the people we serve improve their health, well-being and sense of security. Cigna has almost 40,000 employees who service over 80 million customer relationships around the world. Within its international division, a dedicated unit - headquartered in Belgium - focuses on the needs of International Organisations. This unit is specialised in servicing customers in remote areas as well as central hubs with five service centres in each time zone (Miami, Antwerp, Madrid, Nairobi and Kuala Lumpur) and local representations on every continent. When you work at Cigna, you can count on a different kind of career. >> Why join us? Healthy careers Cigna gives you the opportunity to grow and develop professionally and personally. Because we know our success begins with yours. Healthy returns We offer you monetary and non-monetary rewards. Our compensation is differentiated among employees based on responsibilities and performance. Healthy culture We stand
Job Description
SUMMARY
- As a Sales Manager, you own your region, develop your strategy, and execute this. For this role the region is defined as South Africa and other French speaking countries in Africa. A typical day might include the following:
YOUR JOB
- Building relations within your markets to develop concrete business opportunities and create new sales leads
- Set everything aside to close a deal.
- Prepare presentations & proposals
- Building a healthy pipeline and execute on it in order to close your deals
- Broker events
- Review and adapt your regional strategy to maximize results
- Finish a quote before the deadline while following internal processes
What skills do you need?
- Do you have 5 or more years of experience working in the international health insurance industry? Great start!
- You have strong commercial, networking and negotiation skills? That’s essential for the role.
- You are proficient in English, French language is a plus.
- Finally if you are a driven by closing business and get excited by exceeding your sales, you might just be the perfect fit.
You will love this job if you…
- Love sales and get motivated by working with targets
- Are well-organised in following up on your sales leads
- Nurture relations and enjoy developing them
- Are triggered by the opportunity to map and adapt our sales strategy
- Feel in your natural habitat at networking events and in presentation rooms
- Have a strong sense of accountability and like to be empowered
- Like to work independently, but also value the input of others
- Can cope with the stress of deadlines and taking decisions in unexpected situations
- Are agile and enjoy adapting to an ever changing environment
Cigna can offer you…
- A challenging job in an international and diverse context
- Trust to fill in this position in your personal way and to the best of your abilities
- A dynamic team and sounding board, a director who will mentor and coach you
- A challenging job in an international and growing enterprise
- Market-related salary conditions
- A dynamic, young and entrepreneurial company culture that values and stimulates initiative, thrive on success and truly understands the concept of the lifetime value of a client
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
