Business Development / Sales / New Business

The Verve Group; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm is looking for a proactive individual to drive new growth. This role involves managing sales cycles, collaborating across teams, and providing insights to financial advisers. Experience in financial services is preferred, along with a positive attitude. The position offers competitive salary and flexible work options, including hybrid arrangements.

Benefits

21 days basic holiday allowance

Personal development budget

Hybrid or fully remote options

In-office gym access

Death in service cover

EMI share scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience from tech-enabled services or regulated solutions.
• Insight into the challenges financial advisers face.
• A positive attitude and motivation to engage in new challenges.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full sales cycle with financial planning firms.
• Shape and feed back on go-to-market plans.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure aligned growth.
• Provide market insights through a consultative approach.

Skills

Proactive approach

Sales cycle management

Financial services knowledge

Consultative selling

Growth mindset

Job description

About the role

We’re looking for a proactive and motivated individual to join our team and take a lead in driving new growth across the business.

This role is to generate revenue by winning new business, closing deals, and strengthening relationships with both new and existing clients. While inbound opportunities are strong, you’ll also take a proactive approach in identifying and nurturing new prospects that align with Verve’s vision and support sales targets.

This is a high-impact, results-oriented position that demands a sharp focus on securing and retaining key business as we pursue an exciting growth opportunity ahead. As a business, we are scaling fast and so the ideal candidate will need to be nimble and very comfortable with change.

You would report directly to the Chief Commercial Officer and day-to-day, you typically would be helping to:

• Drive and close opportunities: Manage the full sales cycle with financial planning firms, securing new business across our core growth areas: membership, compliance, paraplanning, technical and proposition.
• Shape new initiatives: Continually understanding the pain points advisers are facing, you will feed back and shape go-to-market plans for new strategies and service offerings, helping to define how we engage and deliver value to our audience.
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with other departments such as marketing, service, onboarding and product, to ensure a cohesive, aligned approach to driving growth.
• Act as a trusted adviser: We don't see this as product sales, but providing market insights and applying a genuine consultative approach that positions Verve as a long-term trusted partner that will help financial planning firms with efficiencies and removing friction points to de-risk their advice business.

About You

You may bring experience from tech-enabled services, or regulated solutions. Ideally, you’ll have worked directly with financial planning firms or within their supply chain, giving you an insight into the financial services sector and have a strong understanding of the challenges advisers face. You will have a growth mindset and a genuine passion for the future of financial planning.

Above all, we love someone with a positive attitude and who likes a challenge and isn’t afraid to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in with the team.

About us

Verve offers a range of services to financial planners and ultimately works towards two key aims; to help support good quality financial advice firms to grow and develop, and to attract new people into financial services and help train them up, for the benefit of the future of the profession.

Across all departments, we approach financial services with an innovative and positive outlook; our focus is on relentlessly improving and never settling for just doing what has always been done. We're passionate that more people can and should benefit from advice, and it's our mission to make it more accessible for them.

We offer a range of benefits to permanent employees to ensure our team feels supported and motivated. We reward loyalty and offer enhanced benefits to reward employees who choose to grow their career with us, including:

• 21 days basic holiday allowance; plus bank holidays; Christmas close-down and your birthday off if it falls on a weekday.
• Personal development budget.
• Personalised salary structure to reflect your own effort and contribution.
• Hybrid or fully remote options available, depending on role and experience.
• Access to lifestyle benefits such as in-office gym, meditation app, high street discount and rewards app.
• Death in service cover.
• EMI share scheme, allowing you to benefit both from declared dividends and long term performance returns.
• Enhanced parental leave benefits.

We also offer additional perks, including:

• No dress code.
• Extensive health and wellbeing programme and initiatives.
• Being part of a company with a higher purpose and strong values.
• Office snacks and refreshments.
• Open plan ‘living office’ environment.
• 2 official annual company parties, plus ad hoc team nights out and monthly enrichment sessions.
• Office dogs welcome!

Competitive salary reflective of experience. A hybrid position (based in Darlington) for local applicants or fully remote available for the right candidate.