DC - Health (Medical Aid) Telesales Consultant - Park Square KZN

Job Description

• Identifying sales opportunities.
• Answering inbound calls timeously and making required outbound calls
• Co-ordination of own administration
• Identifying sales opportunities 
• Maintaining accurate details and statistics of all queries 

Key purpose

• This position is based in the Discovery Connect Sales call centre, and reports to the sales team leader.
• The successful individual will be required to conduct Discovery Health telesales.

Key Outputs

The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs: 

• Achieve Health Sales target 
• Communication to members telephonically via fax and email
• Attending to general administration
• Conduct Financial Needs Analysis 
• Achieve quality target
• Overcome objections

Personal attributes and skills

The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies: 

• Target Driven
• Team Player
• Goal orientated
• Self motivated
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Adapt to change
• Persuasiveness
• Resilience/Tenacity
• Sound Time Management
• Self managed
• Attention to detail
• Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
• Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans

Qualification & Experience

• Matric 
• At least 1year sales experience, preferably in an outbound telesales environment 
• Minimum 1 year health product knowledge, Discovery Health Knowledge is an advantage
• PC literacy, email, word, excel
• Tertiary qualification an advantage
• NQF5 and RE5 qualification