At Bionic, we want to make it radically easier for business owners to sort their business essentials. By using a world-class human service, smart technology, and data, our tech-enabled experts help match business owners with the best deals for their energy, connectivity, insurance & finance.
By creating a one-stop-shop for all business essentials, our purpose is to ‘earn the lifetime loyalty of British businesses’.
This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to join a high performing team within a rewarding department – offering great personal development and training.
About the role
Bionic is seeking a Sales Manager for our Insurance division. As a Sales Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing a team of sales representatives and implementing strategies to increase the company's sales in insurance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the insurance industry and a proven track record of success in a sales management role.
Insurance presents a huge opportunity for the Bionic group. This is part of the top 3 investment areas of the business with a compelling vision and strategy. We offer an insurance buying experience with the convenience of digital but the reassurance of expert voice – a unique experience it makes us the go-to for our segment forever, creating a profitable, scaled insurance business and setting a new bar in the industry.
Reporting into our Head of Insurance Sales you will be responsible for overseeing the sales team’ progress in meeting their objectives through leadership and motivation, provide the operational, day-to-day support of both the leadership team and those within those teams and ensure we meet daily and monthly targets.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Sales, Customer and Quality targets through disciplined daily execution, personally and via the team.
- Ensure full adherence to quality and regulatory standards, always prioritising customer outcomes.
- Lead through leaders, develop capability, and manage performance effectively.
- Build strong cross-functional and external stakeholder relationships, managing expectations confidently.
- Act as technical and placement authority, making sound day-to-day decisions aligned to strategy.
- Resolve the majority of technical queries independently and support complex broking cases.
- Maintain strong trading relationships with Underwriters.
- Drive continuous improvement using data, insight, and structured experimentation.
- Shape and evolve placement strategy through evidence-led recommendations.
- Build and lead a high-performing, professional team with clear standards, strong development focus and visible market credibility.
Requirements
One of Bionics’ goals is to create a meaningful insurance business. As a result, we are looking for our Sales Manager to be an insurance specialist.
You’ll also be able to demonstrate:
- In depth understanding of insurance products and markets
- Previous experience of working in Tele sales
- Passion for sales. To thrive in a target-driven role and enjoy the challenges of meeting daily, weekly, and monthly targets.
- 2+ years proven experience in sales management.
- Outstanding communication skills – key for building relationships with customers, underwriters and colleagues.
- Understand business challenges and able to pivot accordingly
- Excitement of the prospect of a growing business, needing continual reinvention, change and commitment.
- Experience working under pressure, welcomes challenging business focus and finds solutions/ strategies to overcome.
- Demonstration of resilience & what sets you apart from others when faced with challenges where agility is needed.
- Cert CII qualification is desirable
- Commercial insurance experience is desirable
Benefits
We know that our employees are what sets us aside from our competitors, our benefits are just part of the way we say thanks.
Enhance your health & wellbeing 🌱
- Private healthcare cover
- Employee Assistance Programme, including a virtual GP service, priority physio & talking therapies
- Eyecare scheme
Taking time away from work 🏖️
- 25 days annual leave plus the 8 UK bank holidays, increasing with tenure
- 1 paid family/religious day of leave per year - following successful probation period
- 1 paid charity volunteering day per year
- Option to buy/sell up to an additional 3 days leave per year
Family matters: for the special moments 🏠
- Enhanced maternity, paternity or shared parental leave
- 2 days off for your wedding upon joining, and up to 5 days after 2 years' service
- Flexible working options & a hybrid work approach
Financial wellbeing 💸
- Auto-enrolled salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Season ticket Loans, salary advances & loans to buy/rent a home – based on tenure
- Cycle to work scheme
Recognition 🌟
- Highflyers incentive, a VIP experience for our high performers across Bionic group to celebrate success
- Company summer & Christmas party celebrations, business and local zonely & annual awards and recognition
- Long service awards
What We Do
Bionic is an expert comparison service for SMEs. Our experts compare trusted UK business suppliers and talk customers through the results on their screens. We’re the UK market leader, established for over a decade, with more than 200,000 UK businesses helped. Rated Excellent on Trustpilot. Bionic is 7th in the Sunday Times ‘best companies to work for’. Our amazing people and high-performance culture are a key part of our business strategy. We’re part of something bigger than any one of us, and our energy and passion is striking. Sign-up to The Backbone, our newsletter for anyone who owns, runs or works at a SME: https://thebackbone.substack.com/p/coming-soon
