Benefact Group
Development Account Executive
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Development Account Executive
Salary
- Starting salary from £50,000.00 (dependent on experience)
Working Hours
- 35 hours per week
- Monday to Friday
Position Duration
- Permanent
Location
Cheltenham
About the Role
Lansdown Insurance Brokers, who are proudly part of Benefact Group, are looking for a Development Account Executive to join their Cheltenham office.
As a Development Account Executive, you will be the driving force behind exceptional client service, working at the heart of our Partnership Team at Lansdown. You’ll take ownership of developing and strengthening relationships with our Property Manager Agent accounts, ensuring every interaction reflects our right first time approach to customer experience.
You will be:
- Self-motivated
- Ambitious
- Driven
- Tenacious to thrive in a fast-paced commercial environment
- Proficient in understanding the UK commercial insurance market, allowing you to guide our clients with confidence, anticipate their needs, and deliver solutions that exceed expectations.
Why Join Us?
- Join a collaborative and inclusive culture committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future
- Ranked amongst the UK’s 15 Best Big Companies to Work For in 2025
- Access to fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes
Key Responsibilities
You will be doing the following:
- Lead development, negotiation, and conversion of property insurance opportunities, ensuring profitable business aligned with strategic and growth objectives
- Strengthen partnership accounts through:
- Regular face-to-face engagement
- Offsite meetings
- Proactive communication supporting the “right first time” approach
- Manage and nurture commercial and residential property agent accounts, ensuring:
- Excellent client service
- Retention of clients
- Achievement of new business targets
- Represent Lansdown at key exhibitions and networking events, maintaining:
- Up-to-date sector insight
- Identification of new business opportunities
- Operate confidently within regulatory frameworks, including:
- Identifying and escalating risks
- Compliance with company and FCA procedures
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Required Skills and Qualifications
- Strong background in commercial insurance
- Hands-on experience managing commercial and residential property portfolios
- Proven success in:
- Generating new business
- Expanding existing books of business
- Consistently delivering against sales targets
- Skilled in building trusted relationships with:
- Clients
- Agents
- Insurers through:
- Regular face-to-face interaction
- Phone communication
- Written communication
- Flexible and dependable under pressure, with:
- Effective workload management
- Positive team contribution
- Ability to adapt to evolving business needs
What Makes You Stand Out?
- Expert knowledge and experience managing property portfolios
- Cert CII Qualification
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Your birthday off
- Group Personal Pension
- Bonus scheme
- Holiday buy scheme
- An array of:
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Company cash plan
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Enhanced sick pay and parental leave
- Support and funding toward study and professional qualifications
- Paid time off for volunteering
Testimonial
We’re seeking a Development Account Executive to join our growing business and work with our friendly and experienced Partnership team to continue delivering exceptional results. If you’re looking for an opportunity to further your career in the Partnership insurance world, we’d love to hear from you.
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About Lansdown Insurance Brokers
Lansdown Insurance Brokers is an established property insurance broker with:
- Over 60 years of experience
- Specialist products and advice for:
- Landlord
- Business
- Personal lines insurance
In 2014, Lansdown was purchased by SEIB Insurance Brokers and is now proudly part of the Benefact Group.
About Benefact Group
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. Features include:
- Ownership by a charity
- Ranked as the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade
- Having given away £250 million since 2014
- Ambitions to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives to double Group size
Our core beliefs:
- Attract, empower, grow, and reward talented people
- Offer fantastic career and personal development opportunities
Our giving ethos, 135-year history, and the diversity of what we do, create:
- A culture of kindness
- Great ambition
- Passionate people driven to do better and be better
At Benefact Group, we are committed to:
- Creating an inclusive culture
- Building an environment where every employee feels valued and respected
This includes a community of people with diverse backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs, and interests, valuing this diversity as a group strength.
We welcome applications from everyone.
Note: Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving covers data from 2017 - 2026. If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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