Assurant Solutions Intermediary expanding rapidly, driven by broker business

Since moving into its new headquarters in York in the summer, the business has recruited ten new administrators to manage the volumes of buildings & contents policy sales which have doubled in less than a year.

David Walker, Finance Director, comments: “General insurance products like buildings, contents and home emergency aren’t driven by the need to obtain or renew a mortgage and so aren’t impacted by the current slow down. We’ve encouraged our broker partners go through their back books and cross-sell these types of products to provide a much needed boost to their income in these challenging times. As a result, our sales have more than doubled and we’ve undertaken an aggressive local recruitment campaign to build up our team to be able to cope with the demand.”

Five new administrators have joined the business since July, and five more are due to start over the next two months.

Walker concludes: “If volumes continue to rise, then we may well need to bring even more staff on board over the coming months. At a time when others are making cut backs, I would be delighted if we were to continue to buck the trend and hire more people.”

The business is continuing to recruit for a number of other roles within the York office including two business development officer positions.

Assurant Solutions Intermediary distributes a full suite of general insurance products associated with home ownership built around the individual needs of individual customers including: mortgage and income protection, buildings and contents, home emergency assistance, and landlords’ let property insurance.