You spend at least a third of your day at your job. You might as well spend it doing something you really love while working with a team you really enjoy being with, right? That’s the kind of atmosphere we offer at Pekin Insurance—fun, fast-paced, gratifying, supportive, and collaborative.

Of course, it’s not all fun and games. Insurance is a serious business, and we pride ourselves on making people’s lives whole again after a major disaster or even a fender bender. It’s that sense of helping people that makes our team want to do our best every day.

If you want to be excited about starting your workday and are ready to make a real difference in people’s lives, this could be the right spot for you.

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Position Overview

The Policy Service Representative I maintains a working knowledge of all life insurance products, including Medicare Supplement and Annuities, in order to answer questions and process changes for insureds and agents. This position provides excellent customer service and ensures a long-lasting relationship by delivering quick and high-quality work to insureds and agents.

Essential Job Functions

• Receives calls from customers and provides accurate and timely information to meet caller needs
• Processes various policy changes, exchanges, and conversions received from policyholders and agents including related premium
• Ensures timely payment of commissions to agents by using cash value accounting 
• Prepares proposals of new and existing business and effectively communicates how policy changes will affect future policy objectives to policyholders and agents
• Processes surrenders and loans and maintains knowledge to assist customers regarding the taxable income information for these transactions
• Processes billing, mode, and bank account changes
• Pays and reverses premiums, investigating any amounts received that do not match the amount billed
• Calculates, processes and requests checks for premium refunds, policy loans, and surrenders
• Processes client changes such as beneficiary, payor, and address changes
• Drafts correspondence to respond to written and verbal requests from policyowners and agents 
• Provides eligibility quotes for life insurance and annuity benefits to claim department
• Maintains timely responses to customers and agents for all requests
• Maintains strict privacy and security of sensitive and confidential protected health information (PHI)
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

Required

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Typically requires 0-2 years of experience in related field

Preferred or Specialized

• Prior experience in customer service

Certifications & Licenses

• N/A

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Basic ability to:

• Type with speed and accuracy
• Exercise proper telephone protocol
• Communicate effectively in both oral and written form
• Process and handle confidential information with discretion
• Work as a team member and follow directions
• Analyze, organize, and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines

Basic knowledge of:

• Microsoft Office software
• Office procedures and of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and arithmetic

Basic skill in:

• Customer service
• Completing assignments accurately and with attention to detail