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United Kingdom · Sales · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Insurance Sales Consultant Manager

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports5-10 reports
  • Reports toDirector of Sales, Insurance
  • UK framework levelUsually someone running a function, or a director

Also advertised as Sales Manager, Insurance · Head of Sales (Insurance) · Agency Manager (Insurance)

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1From this job to a course

The qualifications matched to this job

City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate In Providing Financial Services City & Guilds Limited · Level 3 · covers 5 of 10 standards
Highfield Level 3 Certificate in Providing Financial Services (RQF) Highfield Qualifications · Level 3 · covers 4 of 10 standards
City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Providing Financial Services City & Guilds Limited · Level 3 · covers 4 of 10 standards
City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate In Providing Financial Services City & Guilds Limited · Level 2 · covers 3 of 10 standards
City & Guilds Level 2 Award in Providing Financial Services City & Guilds Limited · Level 2 · covers 1 of 10 standards

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The units you would start with

Monitoring own performance in placing risks or handling claims against key performance indicators City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate In Providing Financial Services
Evaluating insurance products and services Highfield Level 3 Certificate in Providing Financial Services (RQF)
Contributing to the delivery and achievement of team and business objectives in a financial services environment City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate In Providing Financial Services
Evaluating insurance products and services City & Guilds Level 2 Award in Providing Financial Services

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AI Fluency working with AI as a thinking partner
Data Fluency turning numbers into a decision
Automation Fluency building AI into how work runs
Foresight Fluency seeing round the corner
Systems Fluency seeing the whole picture
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  1. Monitoring own performance in placing risks or handling claims against key performance indicators City & Guilds Limited · covers 5 of 10 standards Level 3
  2. Evaluating insurance products and services Highfield Qualifications · covers 4 of 10 standards Level 3
  3. Contributing to the delivery and achievement of team and business objectives in a financial services environment City & Guilds Limited · covers 3 of 10 standards Level 2
  4. Evaluating insurance products and services City & Guilds Limited · covers 1 of 10 standards Level 2
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2AI and this work

Will AI change your work as an Insurance Sales Consultant Manager?

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The new skills this role is being asked for

  • AI-Driven Sales Enablement
  • Data-Driven Sales Strategy & Optimisation
Why each one is rising

The future skills this job leans on

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3What this role really is

An Insurance Sales Consultant Manager leads a team of insurance sales consultants and answers for their results. The work mixes coaching individuals, setting sales strategy, and tracking the team's profit and loss.

4What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Salesforce Financial Services Cloud / Applied Epic Strategic Command

Defining data governance rules for your team, evaluating CRM integrations with other sales tools, and architecting sales processes within the platform to optimise team efficiency and reporting.

EZLynx / Applied Rater Strategic Oversight

Managing carrier integrations, analysing quoting data to identify market trends and carrier competitiveness, and using insights from the platform to inform product strategy and team training.

Outreach.io / SalesLoft Platform Administrator

Managing team-wide settings, ensuring compliance with communication regulations, and integrating the platform with CRM for full-funnel analytics and reporting on team engagement.

DocuSign / HelloSign Enterprise Management

Managing enterprise licenses, defining security protocols for document signing, and ensuring templates meet legal and compliance standards across the organisation for your team's use.

Tableau / Power BI / Anaplan Advanced Proficiency

Building new dashboards for executive review, modelling sales forecasts for your team in Anaplan, and presenting data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership based on your team's performance.

MS Teams / Slack Governs Usage

Setting channel strategy for team communication, defining communication etiquette, and leveraging the platform for leadership announcements and strategic alignment across your direct reports.

5What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
Hiring New Team Members No authority. Assists with scheduling interviews. Provides feedback on candidates for junior roles, but no final say. Interviews and recommends candidates, but final approval from manager.
Team Sales Strategy & Tactics Follows defined scripts and processes. Suggests minor improvements to personal sales approach. Develops and tests new sales tactics for their own book of business.
Budget Allocation (Team Specific) No budget authority. Submits expense reports for approval. Manages personal expense budget within strict guidelines. Can request budget for specific client entertainment or training, requiring manager approval.
Performance Management (Direct Reports) Receives performance feedback. Receives performance feedback. Provides informal feedback to junior colleagues.

6How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Team Quota Attainment
The percentage of your team's collective sales target that they actually achieve.
Target · 105% of a £5M+ annual team target

If your team's target is £5M for the year and they bring in £5.25M, that's 105% attainment. We're looking for consistent over-performance.

Cost of Sales Acquisition (CoSA)
How much it costs us to acquire new premium through your team, including salaries, commissions, and overheads.
Target · Reduce by 5-10% year-on-year, or maintain below 20% of new premium

If your team spends £1M in a year to acquire £6M in new premium, your CoSA is roughly 16.7%. We'd want to see that number shrink or stay low as premium grows.

Market Share Growth (in key verticals)
The increase in our percentage of the total insurance market within your team's focus areas.
Target · Increase by 1-2% in target verticals (e.g., SME, Tech, Construction)

If we currently have 8% of the SME insurance market and your team helps us reach 9.5%, that's a 1.5% growth, which is fantastic.

Team Retention Rate
The percentage of your sales consultants who remain with the company over a given period.
Target · Maintain 85%+ retention rate annually for your direct reports

If you start the year with 8 consultants and end with 7 (losing one), your retention is 87.5%. We want to keep our talent.

Coaching Effectiveness & Team Development
How well you're coaching your team, identifying skill gaps, and helping them grow their individual books of business.
  • Regular 1:1s with clear action plans
  • observable improvement in individual consultant's closing ratios or average deal size
  • positive feedback in anonymous team surveys about your support
  • successful internal promotions from your team.
Strategic Carrier Relationship Management
Your ability to build and maintain strong relationships with our key insurance carriers, ensuring we get the best terms and support for our clients.
  • Positive feedback from carrier representatives
  • improved access to exclusive products or underwriting flexibility
  • successful negotiation of better commission structures
  • proactive identification of new carrier partners.
Sales Process Optimisation & Innovation
Your contribution to improving our sales processes, making them more efficient, and adopting new, more effective selling strategies.
  • Implementation of new prospecting techniques that yield higher conversion
  • streamlined quoting processes reducing turnaround time
  • successful pilots of new sales technology
  • documented improvements in team productivity.
Team Morale & Engagement
The overall sentiment and commitment of your team members.
  • High participation in team meetings and initiatives
  • low absenteeism
  • positive comments in informal chats
  • team members actively helping each other
  • high scores on engagement metrics in internal surveys.

7Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Building and Developing a High-Performing Team

You'll get a real buzz from seeing a junior consultant close their first big deal, or watching a struggling team member turn their performance around after your coaching. You'll spend time crafting individual development plans and celebrating team successes.

Helping a consultant increase their closing ratio by 15% over a quarter, or seeing one of your team members promoted to a Senior role.

Achieving Significant Team & Organisational Goals

You're driven by the collective success of your team and the impact that has on the wider business. Hitting (and exceeding) big revenue targets for your department is what gets you up in the morning. You'll be constantly looking at the numbers and strategising ways to push further.

Leading your team to exceed their annual target by 10% or more, contributing directly to a significant increase in the company's overall market share.

Solving Complex Business & Sales Challenges

You enjoy dissecting why a particular product isn't selling, or figuring out how to penetrate a new market segment. You'll spend time analysing data, collaborating with other departments, and coming up with creative solutions to boost your team's performance.

Developing a new sales strategy for a challenging product line that results in a 20% uplift in sales, or successfully negotiating better terms with a key carrier.

What frustrates people
  • Dealing with underperforming team members and the difficult conversations that come with it.
  • The relentless pressure to hit quarterly targets, even when market conditions are tough.
  • Internal politics or bureaucracy that slow down your team's ability to sell.
  • Losing a top-performing consultant to a competitor, and then having to backfill and rebuild their pipeline.
  • The sheer amount of administrative work and reporting that comes with managing a team, taking time away from coaching or strategic thinking.
  • Having to mediate conflicts or personality clashes within your team.
What this role does not give you
  • The satisfaction of being the top individual sales performer—your wins are now your team's wins.
  • Complete autonomy over your schedule; you'll be tied to your team's needs and company meetings.
  • A purely strategic role; you'll still be very hands-on with coaching and problem-solving.
  • An escape from administrative tasks; in fact, you'll have more of them, just at a higher level.

8Who you work with

You're directly responsible for a substantial portion of our revenue pipeline and the development of our frontline sales talent. Your team's performance dictates our market position and growth trajectory. Get it right, and we're expanding; get it wrong, and we're losing ground and talent.

Inside the business
  • Director of Sales (your boss, for strategic alignment)
  • Underwriting Leadership (to smooth out tricky submissions)
  • Claims Team (to understand client experience and common issues)
  • Marketing Team (for lead generation and campaign feedback)
  • Finance Team (for budget, P&L, and commission queries)
  • Sales Operations (for process improvements and reporting)
Outside the business
  • Key Insurance Carriers (managing relationships and optimising products)
  • Major Clients (stepping in for complex issues or high-value renewals)
  • Industry Associations (for networking and market insights)
  • Recruitment Agencies (for building your team)

9What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A proven track record of consistently exceeding individual sales targets as a Senior Insurance Sales Consultant (or equivalent) for at least 3-5 years.
  • Demonstrable experience coaching or mentoring junior sales professionals, with clear examples of how you've helped others improve their performance.
  • A deep, practical understanding of the insurance sales cycle, from prospecting to closing and renewal management.
  • Experience managing a significant book of business (e.g., £2M+ in annual premium) with high client retention.
  • Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret sales data and make data-driven decisions.

10What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

CRM System Architecture & Optimisation (Salesforce/Applied Epic)

As sales processes become more complex and data-driven, managers need to understand how to configure and optimise their CRM to support team workflows, reporting, and automation. It's not enough to just use it; you need to shape it.

Custom object & field creation · Workflow automation & process builder · Advanced reporting & dashboard design · Integration with other sales tools

  • This quarter: Complete an online certification in Salesforce Administrator or Applied Epic system configuration.
  • Next quarter: Work with Sales Operations to identify one key CRM process that could be automated or streamlined for your team.
  • Month 6: Design and implement a new reporting dashboard in the CRM that provides deeper insights into team performance.
  • Month 9: Lead a project to integrate a new sales tool with your CRM, ensuring seamless data flow and user adoption.

Quick win: Explore the advanced settings and customisation options within your current CRM. You'll be surprised what you can tweak without needing IT support.

Sales Engagement Platform Administration (Outreach.io/SalesLoft)

These platforms are central to modern prospecting and follow-up. As a manager, you'll need to move beyond being a power user to being the administrator who sets up team-wide cadences, ensures compliance, and analyses overall engagement data.

Sequence/cadence design & A/B testing · User management & permissions · Compliance features & governance · Advanced analytics & reporting

  • This quarter: Complete the administrator certification for your chosen sales engagement platform.
  • Next quarter: Review and optimise all existing team-wide sequences, introducing A/B tests for key messages.
  • Month 6: Develop a training programme for your team on advanced features and best practices for using the platform.
  • Month 9: Lead an initiative to integrate the sales engagement platform more deeply with your CRM, improving data flow and reporting.

Quick win: Take ownership of your team's sales engagement platform settings. Make sure all templates are up-to-date and compliant, and that reporting is configured correctly.

11Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend industry conferences (e.g., BIBA, CII events) to stay current on market trends, regulatory changes, and network with carrier partners.
  • Participate in sales leadership workshops or executive coaching programmes to continuously refine your management and strategic skills.
  • Subscribe to leading sales management publications and podcasts to keep abreast of new methodologies and technologies.
  • Actively mentor junior colleagues within the wider sales organisation, even outside your direct team, to further develop your coaching abilities.

12The rising capability

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Driven Sales Enablement

AI is no longer just a buzzword; it's actively transforming how sales teams operate. Managers who understand how to select, implement, and coach their teams on AI tools will see massive productivity gains and a significant competitive advantage. If you don't embrace this, you'll be left behind.

  • AI-powered CRM integrations
  • Generative AI for sales content
  • Predictive analytics for pipeline management
  • AI for sales training & coaching

Data-Driven Sales Strategy & Optimisation

The sheer volume of sales data available means that gut instinct alone won't cut it anymore. Managers need to be adept at extracting actionable insights from complex datasets to refine sales processes, improve targeting, and boost team efficiency. If you can't read the numbers, you can't lead the team effectively.

  • Advanced sales funnel analysis
  • Customer segmentation & targeting
  • A/B testing sales methodologies
  • Sales forecasting models

13What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Needs-Based & Consultative Selling (Strategic Oversight)
  • Pipeline Velocity Management (Team Level)
  • Underwriting Appetite Analysis (Strategic Carrier Relations)
  • Risk Mitigation Strategy (Advisory for Team)
  • Book of Business Management (Portfolio Strategy)

14The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Insurance Sales Consultant

    5-8 years as a top-performing individual contributor

    Skills to master

    • Consistently exceeding individual sales targets, building a substantial book of business, mentoring junior colleagues informally, handling complex client accounts independently.

    You're ready to move on when

    • You're the go-to expert for complex product queries within your team.
    • You've successfully mentored at least two junior consultants who have gone on to achieve their targets.
    • You're regularly asked to step in on challenging client negotiations or presentations.
    • You've developed and implemented a successful new sales tactic or process for your own book.
  2. 2

    Principal Producer / Lead Consultant

    8-12 years, managing the firm's most critical client relationships

    Skills to master

    • Strategic account management for key clients, developing sales strategies for a small pod or team, informal leadership of other producers, deep market specialisation.

    You're ready to move on when

    • You're managing a portfolio of the firm's largest or most complex clients with exceptional retention rates.
    • You've taken on informal leadership responsibilities, guiding a small group of consultants without direct reporting lines.
    • You're regularly contributing to the firm's overall sales strategy and market positioning.
    • You're seen as an industry thought leader in your specialisation.
  3. 3

    Sales Operations Lead

    8-12 years, with a strong focus on process and data

    Skills to master

    • Deep understanding of sales processes, CRM administration, sales analytics, process improvement methodologies, and sales enablement.

    You're ready to move on when

    • You're passionate about optimising sales workflows and improving efficiency.
    • You're an expert in CRM functionality and can build complex reports and dashboards.
    • You've successfully led projects to implement new sales tools or improve existing ones.
    • You have a knack for translating sales challenges into actionable process solutions.

15Where this role leads

The long view: This work can lead to senior sales leadership roles, or to a specialist path such as product development within insurance.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Insurance Sales Consultant Manager is actually changing.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Monitoring own performance in placing risks or handling claims against key performance indicators, worked against Insurance Sales Consultant Manager.

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Applied to your work in Insurance Sales Consultant Manager

The objective of this unit is to enable learners to monitor and manage their own performance in placing risks or handling claims against key performance indicators. Learners will be able to analyse their performance, communicate effectively with others, maintain relationships with colleagues and clients, and comply with internal policies and external requirements.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Insurance Sales Consultant Manager
  • Needs-Based & Consultative Selling (Strategic Oversight)
  • Pipeline Velocity Management (Team Level)
  • Underwriting Appetite Analysis (Strategic Carrier Relations)
  • Risk Mitigation Strategy (Advisory for Team)
  • Book of Business Management (Portfolio Strategy)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

16The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Insurance Sales Consultant Manager is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director of Sales, Insurance

    Roughly 4-6 years as a successful Sales Manager

    From L5 to L6

    • Carrier Relationship Management (Strategic Level) Negotiating enterprise-level agreements and partnerships.
    • Market Expansion Strategy Identifying and executing plans to enter new geographical markets or product lines.
    • M&A Integration (Sales) Leading the sales integration efforts for acquired businesses.
    • Advanced Sales Forecasting & Budgeting Developing complex financial models for sales planning.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, a big chunk of your team's day isn't spent selling; it's spent on admin, research, and chasing leads. What if you could give them back that time? AI isn't just for individual reps anymore; it's a game-changer for sales managers looking to boost team productivity and hit those ambitious targets.

As an Insurance Sales Consultant Manager, you're always looking for an edge. Imagine a world where your team spends less time on tedious tasks and more time actually talking to clients. That's exactly what modern AI tools can do. We're talking about automating the boring stuff, giving your team smarter insights, and helping them personalise their outreach at scale. It's about working smarter, not just harder, and giving your team the tools to win.

CRM Auto-Pilot for the Team

AI tools can listen to your team's calls and read their emails, automatically logging activities, summarising key points, and updating deal stages in Salesforce. This frees up hours of manual data entry for every consultant, letting them focus on actual selling.

Smart Cross-Sell Advisor (Team-Wide)

Imagine an AI that analyses your entire book of business, identifying the most relevant and likely cross-sell opportunities for each client based on their profile and industry. This gives your team a proactive, data-driven list of who to call next, boosting average policy count per client.

Underwriting Guide De-Coder (for New Products)

When a new carrier product comes out with an 80-page underwriting guide, your team doesn't need to spend days sifting through it. Feed it to an AI, and it'll summarise key appetite points, deal-breaker exclusions, and submission requirements in minutes. Speeds up product adoption for the whole team.

Personalised Follow-Up Ghostwriter (Scalable)

AI drafts personalised follow-up emails for your consultants based on their discovery call notes, referencing specific pain points the client mentioned. This means more tailored, effective communication for every prospect, without your team spending hours crafting individual messages.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become an Insurance Sales Consultant Manager?

Common routes in include Senior Insurance Sales Consultant (5-8 years as a top-performing individual contributor), Principal Producer / Lead Consultant (8-12 years, managing the firm's most critical client relationships) and Sales Operations Lead (8-12 years, with a strong focus on process and data). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an Insurance Sales Consultant Manager progress to?

This role can lead on to Director of Sales, Insurance (Roughly 4-6 years as a successful Sales Manager), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for an Insurance Sales Consultant Manager?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Sales Enablement and Data-Driven Sales Strategy & Optimisation. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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17Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 6

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

 More jobs in sales

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.
If you leave this industry

Skills in sales leadership, profit and loss management, and team development carry across financial services. They also suit business development or general management roles in other industries that need commercial and people leadership.

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