Business Development Manager (Central)

TN United Kingdom; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Business Development Manager to drive sales in the Retail Annuities market. The role involves managing relationships, achieving sales targets, and collaborating with stakeholders. This position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Annual performance-related bonus

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

27 days holiday plus public holidays

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive Business Development experience, ideally with a Pensions or Retirement Income background.
• Strong communication skills to build rapport quickly.

Responsibilities

• Delivering agreed sales targets through account development.
• Building relationships with Intermediaries to foster loyalty.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Education

Level 4 Diploma Qualification

Job description

Business Development Manager (Central), homebased, United Kingdom

We’re recruiting for a Business Development Manager to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary, great benefits, plus a car allowance.

In this exciting role, you’ll have the opportunity to identify, develop, and manage relationships in the Midlands to deliver sales, quality, and profitability targets across all Retail Annuities products & propositions, cost-effectively and ethically. You’ll deliver this through an agreed business development plan and a strategic individual key account plan within your region.

This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing Annuities market where you can grow and develop, as well as the chance to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.

What you'll be doing:

• Delivering agreed sales targets through identification and development of accounts across the Retail Annuities products and propositions within a set panel
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with Intermediaries to foster loyalty and retention and ensure development of business relationships between L&G and its Intermediaries
• Maintaining comprehensive CRM records that can identify opportunities for growth
• Analyzing performance of your region to identify sales trends, and implementing action plans to drive improved business performance
• Maintaining a high level of knowledge on all relevant products, understanding current and future legislation that may affect your accounts. Have extensive knowledge of the wider Retirement Income market, competitors, and the wider retirement income market
• Accurately recording activity and output using the appropriate system (CRM) to enable quality checks according to the prescribed QA framework for the role. Monitoring sales metrics and KPIs to evaluate performance and meet key objectives and targets
• Consumer Duty – Demonstrate through appropriate record-keeping that advice given is suitable and will remain objectively justifiable for the life of the product, considering foreseeable changes to customer circumstances and outlook

Who we're looking for:

• Extensive Business Development experience, ideally with a Pensions or Retirement Income background
• Relevant Level 4 Diploma Qualification
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to quickly and effectively build rapport
• Extensive experience managing a variety of key stakeholders across different levels
• Ability to employ strong negotiation skills to forge and maintain strong relationships with intermediaries and internal stakeholders
• A track record of driving growth across intermediary firms

Benefits:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance
• 27 days holiday, plus public holidays, with options to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participation in our electric car scheme, offering employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax-efficient salary sacrifice
• Various discounts on our products and at high street stores and online

Additional Information:

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time, and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when possible.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, consider what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential, and connection to our purpose.