Business Development Associate (Fresh Graduate are Welcomed to Apply) - Urgent Position

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Business Development Associate based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.

The Role:

• Optimize agency sales momentum through continuous support to assigned agencies to achieve production target and recruitment goal within assigned portfolio.
• Organize high impact and events and activities virtually or physically to build up the recruitment momentum among the assigned agencies.
• Plan and execute product-based customized training and programs for agencies to enhance their awareness on the latest product development.
• Monitor performance of agencies with several ranks and building rapport with them to work closely for better production in solid business.
• Identify the challenges and support required by the assigned agencies and collaborate accordingly to ensure the desired results can be achieved.
• Be creative in taking initiatives to prepare and organize ad-hoc events or special activities to boost up agency performance in term of production and recruitment.
• Analyze the best strategies and tools which make a different for the agencies towards their agreed yearly goals and targets and creating a win-win situation.
• Formulation and execution of deliverable business models for agencies to have consistent performance.
• Take accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
   

The Person:

• Required a recognized degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, International Business, Finance, Investment, Economics or any business-related studies.
• Preferably with at least 3 years of Business Development experience in Life Insurance agency channel.
• Candidates with banking sales experience are encouraged to apply.
• Excellence in interpersonal, communication, networking skills to ensure a fast rapport building with agencies.
• Performance oriented, creative, sharp on the insurance market vibe, with high verbal and numerical literacy.
• Well trained public speaking is a value added and important to this job.
• Efficient in event organizing and presentation skills, with highly accountability to ensure the tasks are delivered accordingly towards desired impacts and results.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Candidate must be willing to be based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Location: Wisma Great Eastern, Kota Kinabalu

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

To all recruitment agencies: Great Eastern does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our email or our employees. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.