Branch Manager - Agency Sales

The purpose of this job is ensure achievement of business targets and enhancement of profitability of the assigned branch by providing effective leadership, planning resources, monitoring people performance & market changes & ensuring timely operations support to ensure smooth functioning.It also includes distribution building, retail development and recruitment of FLS and Advisors.

 

Job Context / Job Challenges:

Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Limited (ABHICL) was incorporated in 2015 as a 51:49 joint venture between Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL) and MMI Strategic Investments (Pty) Ltd. ABHICL commenced its operations in October 2016. ABHICL has entered the competitive health insurance market with an aim to expand the category to wider customer segments, beyond the ones that health insurance companies traditionally have marketed to. As the 6th entrant in a category with we'll-established players, ABHICL is creating differentiation and equity for itself though the unique business proposition of Health Insurance for All , a one of a kind proposition in India at the moment. This is a philosophy that is being built through every single consumer touch point and into every single backend process of the company to ensure a customer s experience of our proposition is continuous and seamless. ABHI s unique offering to market includes proposition includes - A Comprehensive Incentivized we'llness Program that will attract the young and health conscious and will motivate, guide and reward them to stay healthy A Chronic Care Management Program to cater to the unmet needs of a growing Indian population of those suffering from chronic lifestyle conditions like Diabetes, Asthma, High Cholesterol and Hypertension from Day 1

Challenges

Distribution reach will be the key to future growth acceleration for insurance companies as existing geographies get saturated and the focus shifts to new under penetrated geographies.Effective distribution reach into newer geographies, alternate distribution channels, innovative products, targeting new segments are the major challenges in this industry and will be the key drivers in the future.While companies are planning to double their agency network over the next 2 years, the overall industry life agency workforce attrition rate ranges between 50-55% which is significantly high.Hence the key challenge to recruit qualified insurance agents, especially in the semi-urban / rural markets and also to combat the increasing attrition rate particularly when new players are entering the market

Key Challenges for the role

As the business is quite manpower intensive, hiring & retaining the right resources given the limited availability of quality talent and stiff competition is a stiff challenge Delay in completion of business during month end as it involves the long process to issue the policy (starting from policy receipting, scanning, completing requirement, medical follow ups and finally the completion). Since health business is purely retail, maintaining daily rhythms and adding value every day to engage FLS/advisors so that they do required inputs as per the sales process is a challenge.