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ROCK Insurance appoints Phil Carr as Sales Director

Travel Insurance favourite, ROCK Insurance Group, has appointed industry heavyweight Phil Carr as Director of Sales.

Carr’s strategic objective in the short term will be to identify partnership opportunities, excite the market with ROCK’s innovation and pricing strategy, ensure profitable growth for the business and its underwriters and continue to develop the company’s efforts to be the most respected and trusted competitor in the travel insurance market. In the long term Carr has been tasked with making Rock Insurance Group the number one travel insurance business in the UK and a significant competitor in other parts in the world.

Carr brings an impressive track record and a wealth of industry experience to the Rock Insurance Group team.

Carr has more than 17 years of experience within the Insurance industry, at least 10 of those spent in senior positions at big named brands such as Sterling Insurance Group and most recently at Allianz Insurance UK and Allianz Global Assistance. His insurance career began with Cardif Pinnacle where his progress was fast tracked. Leaving there in 2006, Carr spent two years at Sterling Insurance where he managed the brands largest clients, launched the UK’s largest creditor administration deal with a national bank and cross sold new products and services that brought in additional premium to the business.

In 2009, Carr joined the Allianz Insurance UK team and during his time in the role he successfully designed and launched value propositions that enabled Allianz to win business with major corporate partners and secured signed contracts for gross written premiums in excess of £40 million year on year. After just three years, Carr became Head of Sales and Business Development for Allianz Global Assistance. This role saw him develop and launch AGA’s Health proposition – the first UK Homecare initiative. Carr also strategically consolidated the various New Business teams to manage the entire Sales and Business Development functionality’s for Travel, Motor, Health, Home and Lifestyle products; produced year on year growth in all areas of the business, both in terms of Premium and Profitability; and continued to develop a tangible and achievable sales pipeline that supported all aspects of the business’ future growth.

Commenting on his appointment Carr says: “Rock Insurance Group excites me and after almost 20 years working within the insurance sector, I now have an opportunity to make a real difference with my experience, industry relationships and new ideas for delivering partnerships. This opportunity allows me to work within an agile, entrepreneurial, flexible and innovative organisation that has strong underwriting platforms, bespoke technology and profitable sales capability to make Rock Insurance Group the strongest competitor in the travel insurance industry. They also have some exciting plans afoot so I’m keen to begin playing my part in driving these forward to further grow the success of the brand within the industry!”

Antony Martin, Managing Director of Rock Insurance Group says: “We are very excited that Phil is joining ROCK. The combination of his broad sector experience and profile in the corporate insurance market puts ROCK in a very strong position to grow further. ROCK already works with a growing number of affinity partners including Jet2, Mid Counties Coop, Debenhams and Admiral and we are confident that Phil will help ROCK to build on this success.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by David Martin .