Business Development Manager (Retail)

Job Type: Permanent

Location and flexible working: Home Based Role, with the requirement to travel. We are looking for coverage across the following locations: Scotland; South East of England; South West of England;London and the Midlands.

Closing Date: 31st August

Salary and benefits: Up to £85k ,plus on target bonus of 30% to 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Standard Life, part of the Phoenix Group as a Business Development Manager within our Retail Intermediary Sales team.

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role:

We’re on the search for a high performing, ambitious Business Development professional to join our growing business

The successful candidate will play a key role working with Financial Advisers in the wealth area to identify and secure profitable opportunities for the Standard Life Group, from a panel Financial Adviser ('Adviser') firms; these opportunities will include both Standard Life's retail intermediary investment proposition and our retirement and long term savings products.

To be successful in this role, you will be a proven high achiever who is well versed in exceeding targets on a regular basis. The objective of the role is to increase business levels across all aspects of the investment proposition primarily through meeting (face to face and or virtually) financial advisers across a specified region.

What are we looking for:

• Responsible for engaging with and meeting advisers in order to build, maintain and develop relationships, both face to face and hybrid.
• Accountable for achieving targeted business activity. This will include meeting targets, identifying business needs, outlining our value proposition, and follow up within agreed timescales. Keeping client records up to date in line with this activity.
• To deliver production of business plans for aligned area to define strategic interventions to exceed national and business centre targets across all Pension and Investment products, identifying and exploiting local and regional opportunities for growth.
• To be able to analyse business plans and using panel and sales MI to drive actions and future direction, to inform and evolve business plans for short, medium and longer term.
• Responsibility to present information in relation to the product and investment proposition at internal and external events, varying the approach to required audiences.

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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