9. Roderick Insurance Brokers

9. Roderick Insurance Brokers

Operating out of Victoria’s Geelong and Werribee, Roderick Insurance Brokers is a locally owned family business. Led by managing director Keith Roderick, who has been running the business since 1986, the brokerage has enjoyed significant growth over three decades to become one of the largest and most established regional brokerages in Victoria, offering an extensive portfolio of both personal and commercial insurance.

Between July 2019 and June 2020, Roderick Insurance Brokers enjoyed a 10% increase in client growth, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a catastrophic natural disaster season. However, it was in the number of policies written over the past year that Roderick Insurance Brokers truly stood out – the brokerage wrote a total of 14,188 policies, the third most out of all the Top 10 Brokerages.

“The biggest challenge we are facing at the moment revolves around the ability to find suitably qualified staff to manage the increasing complexities of our insurance offerings,” says Paul Codd, the brokerage’s sales and operations manager. “As a number of technically experienced brokers retire from our organisation, we see the gap left in skill set as we struggle to replace them with similarly qualified people. To try and combat this issue, we have implemented a trainee program to get younger people exposed to various areas of the business in a bid to fast-track them to a broker role.”

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