Business Development Analyst

Just Group plc; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Group plc, a leading financial services company, seeks a proactive support role within the Business Development Team. The position involves providing logistical support, assisting in the quotation process, and ensuring effective communication with clients and stakeholders. Ideal candidates will demonstrate excellent communication skills, IT proficiency, and the ability to work under pressure. Join us in our mission to help people achieve a better later life.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills across different media.
• Ability to self-organise and achieve objectives.
• Proactive approach to integrating technology.

Responsibilities

• Provide logistical support to the Business Development team.
• Assist in drafting quotation documents and renegotiating delivery dates.
• Organise meetings and provide briefing packs for the team.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Self-organisation

High level of initiative

Excellent IT skills

Tools

PowerPoint

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.

We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.

Purpose
To provide high calibre and proactive sales support to the Business Development Team in order to maximise effectiveness of the Business Development and the defined benefits team and ensure achievement of team targets.

Job Role

• To provide logistical support to Business Development team – and in particular assist in the process for agreeing/declining quotations by assessing already made commitments. Also taking accurate minutes of work planning meetings and pricing committees.
• To assist in the pre and post quotation process as required – for example drafting quotation documents, re-negotiating delivery dates and ensuring sub-teams are delivering to time.
• To keep up to date and relevant the presentations for beauty parades, conferences and other events as required. To include producing briefing packs for the meetings and general intelligence of prospect business.
• To organise meetings on behalf of the Business Development team, with relevant individuals at EBC’s, professional trustees, existing clients and potential future clients – again providing briefing packs for all the meetings.
• Support the work required to assess opportunities with our existing clients.
• Provide support for all the Business Development Managers in respect of MI requirements of the team – e.g. current pipeline, potential repeat business pipeline.
• Assist in ensuring competitor analysis is continually up to date, including understanding the latest transactions that our competitors have completed.
• To assist the Marketing manager in delivery of marketing materials for Defined Benefits, e.g. website, literature.
• Provide assistance / cover to business development team members.
• Be involved in the wider DB business development team, including assisting transition managers on won cases as required.
  

Skills and Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills – with the ability to communicate information across different media (e.g., telephone, letter, e-mail)
• Ability to liaise at all levels internally and externally
• Ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining accuracy and quality
• Ability to self-organise to achieve objectives within timescales
• High level of initiative and self-motivation
• Excellent IT skills including PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and Excel
• We require a proactive approach to integrating technology into daily tasks and processes

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.

Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.