Executive General Manager, Broking Branches

Join a growing New Zealand organisation with local control and already strong customer ethos, as part of a highly effective executive team.

Rothbury
A commitment to personal service and quality advice has seen Rothbury achieve exceptional and sustained growth, with further unrealised potential. They consistently achieve world class NPS scores and have received numerous industry awards, from Broker of the Year to Great Workplace certification. Rothbury are values driven, innovative and don’t allow process and bureaucracy to get in the way of exceptional client service.

The Role
Join a hugely experienced, capable, and passionate Auckland based Executive Team. As Executive General Manager Broking Branches you are accountable for the performance of 25 branches and over 350 commercial and domestic insurance brokers.
  
You’ll be an active member of the executive team as the client champion, jointly responsible for refining and delivering the organisational strategy. With the support of a regional leadership team you will own the resulting sales strategy to ensure Rothbury continue their growth momentum in an increasingly dynamic insurance market. You’ll also be expected to foster mutually beneficial industry partnerships and play a role in future acquisitions.

About You
It’s important you have a broad base of insurance knowledge with prior experience in or alongside insurance broking, and will have managed a sales function of appropriate scale.
  
You can demonstrate the ability to not just achieve operational and customer excellence but also develop a sales strategy that is aligned to business objectives, market dynamics and customer needs. Rothbury have a deep passion for customer experience and you’ll be able to show how you have achieved results via a similar ethos.
  
As an Executive Team member, success hinges on four key behaviours:

1. Strong Team Player and Natural Collaborator:Collaboration and cooperation is in your DNA and you invest in colleague relationships accordingly. You question to understand, recognise the danger of false harmony, and challenge the point not person as needed. You’re respectful of history, different perspectives and personalities. You view your executive peers as your primary team. 
2. Strategic Thinking: A student of the market with strong commercial and strategic thinking. You can form an educated view of the future market dynamics and client needs and can distil your resulting sales strategy into operational objectives for your team.
3. Relationship Builder:You’re highly relatable and approachable and respect the importance of being visual and transparent, right across the business and external market. You constantly and proactively invest in senior level external partnerships based on mutual gain.
4. Drive and Accountability: You own outcomes, take responsibility, and gets results with a strong bias to action. You know your numbers and understand the story that sits behind them. You can delegate responsibility but not accountability and are prepared to inspect what you expect of others.

This is a very rare opportunity to have a significant strategic impact within a highly regarded NZ led business, with skin in the game.

We recognise that neurodiversity is critical to a healthy, successful workplace. Our role is to uncover and advocate strengths via a psychologically safe recruitment experience. So, if a typical recruitment process doesn’t bring out your best, let us know.
  
Next steps 
 
Apply here with a CV in MS Word. For an initial discussion in confidence contact Tony Pownall via our website.
  
We understand some job seekers choose not to apply if a role isn’t a 100% match. We’d encourage you to apply anyway. If this isn’t right something else might be. 

A bit about Tony, who's recruiting this role

Tony is a co-founder of Cultivate. Helping businesses to build a sustainable future based on ‘performance through people’ is what drives him in work hours. Outside of work he's hopelessly addicted to cycling and getting outdoors, which helps when trying to keep up with two very active children.