Account Executive/Account Director in Henfield

Full-Time

Hybrid

Travel Required

Relocation Assistance Available

The OpportunityThe Telesales Account Executive is responsible for driving new business growth, managing and developing broker relationships, and delivering Annualised New Business Premium (ANP) targets across the UK Employee Benefits business. The role plays a key part in supporting MetLife's growth ambitions by generating revenue, enhancing broker engagement, and ensuring customers have access to solutions that help protect their financial wellbeing.

This is an exciting opportunity to build strong partnerships with brokers, influence business growth, and make a direct impact on MetLife's sales performance while working in a fast-paced, relationship-driven environment. Drive sales activity through proactive outbound calling, lead generation, pipeline management, and consistent follow-up to convert opportunities into new business.

Present and promote MetLife's products, value-added services, and propositions to brokers, ensuring they understand and maximise the benefits available to their clients.

Maintain and develop business opportunities by obtaining quote feedback, progressing sales conversations, supporting retention activity, and delivering against annualised premium and growth targets.

Required

QualificationsDemonstrated experience in a sales, account management, or business development role, with a proven track record of achieving or exceeding sales targets.

Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to develop and maintain effective broker and intermediary partnerships.

Experience using CRM systems and Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) to manage pipelines, reporting, and customer activity.

Microsoft Copilot) to enhance productivity, analyse information, generate insights, and improve customer and sales outcomes.

Preferred

QualificationsPreferred qualifications include experience within the insurance, employee benefits, or financial services industry; We welcome candidates with a strong track record in relationship management, business development who can demonstrate the ability to build and grow client relationships, conduct effective sales conversations, and deliver against performance targets.

Benefits

We OfferMetLife UK offers a range of benefits to deliver value to our employees and their families, supporting their health, wellbeing and financial security. Our flexible benefits offering provides freedom, choice, and flexibility in the way that you receive your benefits to better suit your lifestyle, meet some of your practical needs, and provide advantages in terms of tax and National Insurance savings.

Our core benefits include 9% employer pension contributions with up to 4% matching available, comprehensive private medical insurance, income protection insurance, and life insurance. We offer a host of additional benefits that you can choose to buy including critical illness/dental/travel/gadget insurance, annual leave buy/sell, partner life insurance and more. All employees receive a 20 benefits allowance per month to spend on any additional benefits they select.

About MetLifeRecognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future.

We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.