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"West Oak’s success has come from always putting our clients’ best interests first and always finding ways to improve and add more value to them"
Andrew mcquiston,
west oak family office, wellington-altus private wealth
A key part of the team at Brooklyn Underwriting since joining in 2019, Jessica Jenkins is a multi-award-winning business development manager with an extensive track record of insurance industry and relationship management experience.
In her role as relationship manager, she is responsible for developing healthy, productive partnerships as well as nurturing and building the company’s existing key relationships with brokers.
Proactive, highly informed and committed to outstanding communication, Jenkins takes an authentic approach to fostering lasting relationships and is focused on genuinely reflecting Brooklyn Underwriting’s commitment to their core value of “customer first, always”.
She is motivated to share her extensive professional knowledge with her team and industry peers. She is passionate about supporting and mentoring her colleagues, particularly those just starting out their careers in insurance.
Clients and partners who come into contact with Jenkins benefit from her depth of knowledge, her strategic capabilities, and her ability to identify and develop new market channels.
“Brooklyn Underwriting has a vibrant culture and team that genuinely cares for our clients, partners and stakeholders,” she says. “I aim to provide the highest level of customer service and always tackle problems head-on.”
“My goal is to encourage the wonderful women in our industry to lean in, believe in ourselves, and empower each other to be and do the best we can,” says Jenkins. “It is OK to make mistakes and fail. Through failure, life’s greatest lessons are learnt. It’s through failure that we build a platform for great success.”
Outside of the office, she is a self-confessed coffee and chocolate addict. In addition to her day-to-day work at Brooklyn Underwriting, she is a mother to five-year-old Mia and involved with the Women’s Wellness Hour of Power (WWHOP), a supportive event for women in the insurance industry who are juggling many roles and responsibilities on a daily basis.
“The WWHOP is an idea borne out of a collective of women in the insurance and finance industry who are juggling their many roles and responsibilities daily, in particular, working mums,” says Jenkins. “As mothers of young daughters, our co-founder and I recognised the need for an independent safe haven for women in the industry to come together, empower, mentor and support one another and remember that it’s OK not to be OK.”
Level 28, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
0434 227 913
jessica.jenkins@brooklynunderwriting.com.au
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Jessica Jenkins
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Deputy Principal at Australian Christian College - Southlands
Doctor of Education
2020–present
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2021
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Year 7 Community Leader and Leader for Learning Technologies and Platforms at Northern Beaches Christian School
Master of Business Administration, 2017–2019
2021
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2013
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Master of Education (Curriculum and Pedagogy)
2013
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2020–present
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Jessica Jenkins
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2020–present
2021–present
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2002
2021–present
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National Manager at Link Financial Group
2021–present
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2020–present
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Recognized as one of Insurance Business Australia’s Elite Women in 2020 and 2021
Completed her Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management
at the Australian College of Commerce and Management in 2022
2020–present
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2019–present
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In 2020, formally commenced volunteer mentor program in the insurance industry,
helping support and shape the industry’s future
Also in 2020, co-founded the Women’s Wellness Hour of Power, an idea borne out of
a collective of women in the insurance and finance industry – working mothers in particular – who are juggling their many roles and responsibilities daily
Recognised by Insurance Business as one of its 5-Star BDMs in 2021
Recognised as one of IB’s Elite Women in 2022
2019–present
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2006–2019
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Assumed her first national relationship management role at Telstra eBusiness (now Sunrise Exchange), where she was responsible for the management of relationships with underwriters and brokers nationwide
Worked at BRIC, Ace/Chubb, Ansvar, CGU, AIG, and Gallagher Bassett
Joined Brooklyn Underwriting as relationship manager, a national role
2006–2019
2009–2011
2002
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At age 19, elected to local government as the youngest council representative in Victoria
Awarded Young Citizen of the Year on Australia Day
Commenced her journey in insurance at Suncorp Group
2002
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