Insurance Sales Internship

Job Description

Insurance Sales Internship

• A paid, full-time 8-week summer internship working with a trusted, people-focused UK insurer


• Spend your summer working on real commercial projects that play a direct part in shaping our future growth.


• Location: South East region across multiple offices


• Start date: 15th June 2026


• Entry Requirements: Ideally in your penultimate year of undergraduate study and on track for a minimum 2:1 honours degree (any discipline welcome)


• Salary: £24,037 pro rata

What you’ll be working on

At NFU Mutual, our roots are firmly in farming, and we’re proud to stay true to those origins. But we’re also a business that’s growing fast in other areas – particularly commercial and high net worth – and that’s where our Sales team plays such an important role.

Join our South East Regional Team, the largest and most commercially driven region at NFU Mutual. You’ll gain hands-on experience building relationships with our local Agencies to grow their businesses and support NFU Mutual’s ambitious commercial growth strategy.

As an intern, you’ll play a hands‑on role in supporting key growth and insight activities across the team. You’ll work with real business data to help assess market potential, identify opportunities, and contribute to informed decision‑making. From mapping out market landscapes to supporting prospecting activity, you’ll gain experience in analysing trends and turning insight into action.

You’ll also help shape engagement activity by coordinating and managing an incentive campaign, giving you exposure to campaign planning, delivery, and measurement. Throughout the internship, you’ll build a strong understanding of our agency network and how our business operates, giving you valuable commercial insight and a solid foundation for future career development.

How we’ll support you

You’ll be supported closely throughout your internship, both within Sales and as part of our wider Internship Programme.

In your first week, you’ll spend dedicated time in the office with your Placement Manager getting to know NFU Mutual, the insurance industry and the regulatory landscape we operate in. You’ll complete corporate induction learning, receive systems training and agree clear placement objectives, including your end-of-programme presentation brief.

Throughout the 8 weeks, you’ll work alongside experienced professionals and Agents who regularly engage with senior leaders across the organisation. You’ll see first-hand how we influence, advise and challenge at all levels of the business.

Alongside your team experience, our Early Careers team will support your wider development. You’ll attend networking events with fellow interns, take part in a presentation skills session to help you prepare for your final showcase, and benefit from structured feedback conversations to help you reflect and grow.

We’ll trust you with real responsibility, but you won’t be left to figure things out alone. You’ll receive guidance, stretch opportunities and regular feedback, while also being encouraged to manage your time effectively and take ownership of your work.

By the end of the programme, you’ll deliver a final presentation on your project and leave with tangible experience, stronger commercial awareness and greater confidence in your own capability.

Application Process

Our application process is designed to be straightforward and focused on your potential. It includes an online assessment, a pre-recorded video interview and a virtual, skills-based interview with members of the team. We’re interested in how you think, communicate and approach problems rather than whether you’ve done this before.

If you successfully complete the internship, you may have the opportunity to be fast-tracked through future graduate programme selection processes, subject to availability and eligibility at the time.

Please note that you must have the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the internship, as we’re unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.

This vacancy may close early depending on application volumes, so we’d encourage you to apply as soon as you feel ready.

About you

You don’t need previous sales experience to apply. What we do ask for is some previous customer facing work experience where you’ve had the opportunity to interact with people. You’ll need to be on track for at least a 2:1 degree, but your subject isn’t what matters most — we’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a willingness to learn and the confidence to engage with people across different teams. You’ll be comfortable speaking to a variety of people over the phone, open to feedback and ready to take initiative when you spot something that could be improved.

We’re particularly looking for:

• Strong communication skills – because you’ll be working with different teams and stakeholders, explaining complex ideas clearly and contributing to discussions.

• Self-management and initiative- with the confidence to drive things forward and challenge thinking

• Commercial thinking – you’ll need to understand how business decisions connect with business growth and customer outcomes.


• Motivation and being proactive - You bring enthusiasm and commitment to achieving high‑quality outcomes, staying motivated and focused even when working independently.


• Relationship building and interpersonal skills - You build strong, trusted relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, creating open communication channels that support effective collaboration.


• Digital literacy and a learning mindset – confidence using tools such as Microsoft 365, particularly Excel, combined with curiosity and a genuine desire to develop your knowledge throughout the programme.

If you’re motivated, thoughtful and ready to challenge yourself in a professional environment where your contribution genuinely matters, we’d love to hear from you.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.