Steve Brown CeMAP

Steve Brown CeMAP

Passionate about promoting the importance of protection insurance

Exeter, England, United Kingdom
1K followers 500+ connections

About

Passionate about protection insurance.

Key Skills

• A natural leader with the ability to develop/coach and motivate team members to achieve potential and meet objectives.
• A highly organised professional with excellent time management skills; able to quickly assess needs and effectively plan/forecast to ensure targets are hit.
• Effective time management skills and the ability to manage workloads under pressure and delegate relevant tasks to team members.
• Excellent communication skills and accomplished at creating communication channels to aid issue resolution.
• Strong commercial awareness and comprehensive understanding of Treating Customers Fairly and the Financial Conduct Authority guidelines.
• Good understanding of MI systems and ability to review achievements/targets/standards and service levels.
• Confident decision making due to my audit background and ability to communicate those decisions in feedback.
• CII CF1, IF1, IF7, R01 & R05 completed - Cert CII in Insurance. CeMAP Qualified.

Activity

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Experience

  • Cavendish Online Graphic

    Protection Adviser

    Cavendish Online

    - Present 3 months

  • LV= Graphic

    Protection Consultant

    LV=

    - 2 years 6 months

  • UnderwriteMe Graphic

    Hybrid Account Manager

    UnderwriteMe

    - 1 year 3 months

    United Kingdom

    To develop new and existing relationships by ensuring intermediaries are kept fully informed of the proposition and forthcoming system developments through floorwalking, face-to-face meetings, attending network/industry events.

  • The Exeter

    The Exeter

    5 years 2 months

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      Account Executive

      The Exeter

      - 2 years 11 months

      Midlands

      Maintain and support accounts by building up a client portfolio and establishing a rapport to secure more business from existing intermediaries. As well as developing new intermediary relationships to increase new business.
      Undertake proactive sales campaigns on specific products or product features.
      Undertake sales and service calls to productive and none productive accounts.

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      New Business Administrator

      The Exeter

      - 1 year 1 month

      Exeter, United Kingdom

      This role includes delivering excellent customer service and ensuring intermediaries and customers’ expectations are met/exceeded. We have to maintain a strong relationship with our key account managers and business development mangers (BDM) to ensure a seamless process for our intermediaries/customers to ensure business targets are hit or exceeded.

      Key achievements in role:
      • Exceeding my targets
      • Proactively managing workload by using effective time management/forecasting and…

      This role includes delivering excellent customer service and ensuring intermediaries and customers’ expectations are met/exceeded. We have to maintain a strong relationship with our key account managers and business development mangers (BDM) to ensure a seamless process for our intermediaries/customers to ensure business targets are hit or exceeded.

      Key achievements in role:
      • Exceeding my targets
      • Proactively managing workload by using effective time management/forecasting and planning.
      • Providing excellent customer service and exceeding expectations of my customers.
      • Ensuring new business opportunities are passed onto our BDM’s.
      • Managing stock of new literature and ensuring orders are placed to replenish this stock.

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      Private Medical Insurance Claims Assessor

      The Exeter

      - 1 year 4 months

      Exeter, United Kingdom

      My role involves managing claims across all private medical insurance (PMI) products by balancing the need for making sound commercial decisions with treating customers fairly (TCF) so that our brand reputation is enhanced with our customers. This includes managing risk within the PMI claims department by ensuring regulatory compliance and by offering the best service to generate and retain business and also to reinforce TCF and the company brand by ensuring targets are achieved and maintained.…

      My role involves managing claims across all private medical insurance (PMI) products by balancing the need for making sound commercial decisions with treating customers fairly (TCF) so that our brand reputation is enhanced with our customers. This includes managing risk within the PMI claims department by ensuring regulatory compliance and by offering the best service to generate and retain business and also to reinforce TCF and the company brand by ensuring targets are achieved and maintained. This role ended due to the role being outsourced in December 2016.

      Key achievements in role:

      • Exceeding my targets while ensuring quality of work.
      • Proactively managing workload by using effective time management/forecasting and planning.
      • Becoming team brand champion ambassador – to encourage my team to live by our company values
      • Becoming a member of the community and charity team within my own time.
      • Providing support and in-role training for a new starter in the PMI team and also the wider team.

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    Quality Auditor

    Friends Life UK

    - 1 year 10 months

    Exeter

    The role entails the application of technical knowledge and expertise to perform quality audits on work completed by administrators to ensure compliance with defined quality presentation standards in addition to technical, legislative and FCA requirements. This includes ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering requirements, Inland Revenue reporting and interpretation of revenue requirements. A key part of the success in this role has been in identifying opportunities for improved customer…

    The role entails the application of technical knowledge and expertise to perform quality audits on work completed by administrators to ensure compliance with defined quality presentation standards in addition to technical, legislative and FCA requirements. This includes ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering requirements, Inland Revenue reporting and interpretation of revenue requirements. A key part of the success in this role has been in identifying opportunities for improved customer service and data integrity.

    Key achievements in role:

    • Taking on responsibility to produce the weekly reports and delegating work and targets/deadlines to my team to meet common objectives.
    • Exceeding my audit targets with effective time management/forecasting and planning.
    • Improving processes when potential issues are discovered while auditing using my comprehensive understanding of Treating customers fairly (TCF) principles.
    • Developing/Coaching and motivating a team of employees to support service improvement and make sure they meet their targets.
    • Providing a team escalation point for issues
    • Involved interviewing for new staff both carrying out the interview and scribing.
    • Involved with management discussion to set up new audit targets for the audit team across Dorking and Exeter sites.

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    Quality Support Technician

    Diligenta

    - 2 years 10 months

    Exeter

    Started at Friends Provident as a customer service representative. The role was TUPE to Diligenta. This involved dealing with customer/employer and IFA queries regarding their pensions and life products.
    I was offered a ‘step up’ role as a Quality support technician which involved me providing support/guidance for call handlers and also completing audits on agent’s phone calls. This involved following and promoting a team understanding of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)…

    Started at Friends Provident as a customer service representative. The role was TUPE to Diligenta. This involved dealing with customer/employer and IFA queries regarding their pensions and life products.
    I was offered a ‘step up’ role as a Quality support technician which involved me providing support/guidance for call handlers and also completing audits on agent’s phone calls. This involved following and promoting a team understanding of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) guidelines.

    Key achievements in role:

    • Providing positive and constructive feedback to call handlers and their line managers to help them develop.
    • Providing technical support to call handlers on the NGP helpline.
    • Dealing with FCA/Prudential Regulation Authority rules and guidelines.
    • Dealing with change in legislation

  • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

    Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

    1 year 11 months

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      Executive Officer (Fixed Term - 2 year contract)

      Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

      - 5 months

      Taunton, United Kingdom

      This involved taking phone calls from members of the public who wanted a crisis loan from the jobcentre. The process was to manage a customer through an application for a crisis loan gathering data and information relevant to the application. I had to make a decision following the Independent Review Service (IRS) guidelines. I had to decide whether they would receive a loan, the amount and over how long they would have to pay it back.

      Key achievements in role:

      • Managing the…

      This involved taking phone calls from members of the public who wanted a crisis loan from the jobcentre. The process was to manage a customer through an application for a crisis loan gathering data and information relevant to the application. I had to make a decision following the Independent Review Service (IRS) guidelines. I had to decide whether they would receive a loan, the amount and over how long they would have to pay it back.

      Key achievements in role:

      • Managing the customer experience
      • Budgeting and managing the customers social fund debt
      • Using decision making skills
      • Identifying key information with open questioning

    • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Graphic

      Administative Officer (Fixed Term - 2 year contract)

      Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

      - 1 year 7 months

      Bognor Regis, West Sussex

      This Involved completing the fortnightly job review, managing customers and guiding them down the correct avenues, to help them secure work.

      Key achievements within role:

      • Completing job reviews and following disciplinary actions if applicable, involved reporting job seekers for potential penalties including suspension of benefits.
      • Processing of benefit payments if job searching was acceptable.
      • Managing job seekers within the building due to be signing…

      This Involved completing the fortnightly job review, managing customers and guiding them down the correct avenues, to help them secure work.

      Key achievements within role:

      • Completing job reviews and following disciplinary actions if applicable, involved reporting job seekers for potential penalties including suspension of benefits.
      • Processing of benefit payments if job searching was acceptable.
      • Managing job seekers within the building due to be signing on.
      • Referring job seekers to agencies to help with aspects of their job searching.

Education

  • St Bartholomew's School

    A Levels

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    Activities and Societies: - Senior XV Rugby - Senior XV Football - Senior XV Cricket - Senior Prefect

    - Physical Education
    - Computer Science
    - General Studies

  • St Bartholomew's School

    GCSE's

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    Activities and Societies: - Rugby - Football - Athletics - Cricket - Prefect

    11 xGCSE's

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