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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 February 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Insurance broker SFAM continues to grow and announces the recruitment of 1,000 employees in 2019. 400 positions are to be filled in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), 400 in Roanne (Loire) and 200 in Paris. Most of the hires will be on permanent contracts. The group achieved a turnover of €470 million in 2018. SFAM seeks to strengthen its teams and focuses its recruitment on call centre agents, sales representatives, administrative staff (legal assistant, claims manager, etc.), web developers, finance experts, HR staff.
Eurofound (2019), SFAM, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 96686, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96686.
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