Sales Consultant

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We’re recruiting for Sales Consultants to join us. We’re offering a base salary of £22,500. In addition to this our excellent monthly bonus scheme (discretionary) meaning you could earn up to an additional £800 per month on top of your base salary

Do you thrive when working towards targets? Are you motivated by the opportunity to earn monthly bonus? Are you looking for a hybrid role where you’ll work 3 days from home and 2 days in our Cardiff office? If so, come and join us!  

We are recruiting for Sales Consultants here in our Life Insurance team in Cardiff. We work on a shift basis 8.30am - 8pm Monday - Friday and 9-1 on Saturdays (1 in 3 rotation).  

What you'll be doing:

• You’ll be working in our Life Insurance Direct Sales team taking incoming calls from customers seeking life protection quotes. They come through to us via our policy review team or referrals from third party referrer (as part of their loan offering, the customer must have life insurance)
• You’ll complete a full medical application via phone, covering health and lifestyle, hobbies, family history etc.  This will generate a life insurance quote- the objective is to turn that into a sale
• You’ll provide customers with a first-class experience during every interaction. 
• Offering support and feedback to other colleagues, contributing to a highly motivated, straightforward, and collaborative culture
• For our most vulnerable customers, you’ll ensure you consider their circumstances and needs and take additional steps to support them through their interactions with Legal & General

Who we're looking for:

• The skills below are really important to us. Rest be assured, we will show you the L&G way. You’ll be in our office based induction for a couple of weeks so, you’ll have the tools you need before you start helping our customers and clients
• People who love helping people! People who are straightforward, ambitious, authentic, collaborative, and purposeful
• Self-motivated and target driven people
• Strong communication skills and passion to support customers, whatever their personal circumstances
• Confident using a sales approach
• Confident asking open questions in order to establish the customers needs
• Confidence in using a desktop or laptop and experienced in using MS Office

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.