Tuesday 26 March 2013

APA Insurance Job Openings 2013

Insurance jobs in Kenya 
Position Description: Relationship Officer-Health
Head Office (Apollo Centre)

Position Summary
Officer is responsible for marketing, underwriting and servicing the Health Insurance business to ensure that the company writes profitable business and maintains a steady growth.
Job Functions
Range of Responsibility:

Quotations/Winning Proposals
Providing quotations to brokers/direct clients and doing quotations follow up
Setting up new/business/loading scheme members into the membership and Claims syste
Process new policies and set up new accounts within set company standards and turn around times.
Involves registering member data in the system to facilitate processing of claims.
Issuing endorsements, Additions and deletions
•    Endorse policies as instructed by clients and intermediaries
•    Process additions and deletions to the policies within set turnaround times and forward details to claims system as well as to providers
•    Ensure endorsements and membership cards are issued correctly and on time
Renewal and performance Review.
This is done before the end of every Insurance period to determine the renewal terms for a specific policy for the next Insurance period. It may also be done midterm/periodically for policies that require monitoring.
The end of Insurance year review is done two months before renewal date. The jobholder should ensure that the review is done on time i.e. before renewal date and must consult with the team leader before issuing terms.
The jobholder should give a proposal for the required renewal terms.
 Ensure that business retention is optimized and that in all cases the prescribed retention ratio is observed, attending prearranged meeting for business prospecting and service to existing clients.
Achieve 95% renewal retention.
Accounts reconciliation
•    Involves comparing the debits/credits raised by the broker and insurer. The purpose is to ensure that both parties agree on the premiums raised and to have balanced accounts. 
Maintain good working relationships with brokers/agents/direct clients and other intermediaries.
Credit Control
•    Involves collection of premiums due from brokers, agents and direct clients as stipulated in the APA Credit policy.
•    Ensures collection of premiums as per the cash and carry rule and report weekly on the status
Relationship management with brokers/agents
Job holder must maintain a calendar of visits to brokers and clients.

The purpose for this is to:
Source for new business
Service the accounts through the intermediaries
Develop and maintain a good working relationship
Collect premium
Collect and act on customer complaints and feedback

Marketing
Co-ordinate product development processes
Co-ordinate consumer research activities
Develop and maintain competitor analysis
Presentations to clients on details of our product
Establish and maintain appropriate systems for preparing market intelligence statistics and reports on target business to facilitate development of strategies to give the company a competitive edge.

Minimum Qualifications

 At least 2-3 year’s experience in insurance/underwriting-Health is desirable.
 A Diploma in Insurance or CII qualification is essential,
University degree will be an added advantage,
Good interpersonal skills, excellent communications and analytical skills.
 Well developed computer skills.

If your career aspirations match these exciting opportunities, please write in confidence to the address here below on or before 10th April 2013. Enclose current curriculum vitae and apply to;

Head of Human Resources,
APA Insurance Limited,
Apollo Centre, 07 Ring Road Parklands, Westlands,
PO Box 30065, 00100,
NAIROBI
E-mail: recruitment@apainsurance.org

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