Field Account Manager

MetLife UK; Brighton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Life insurance

Benefits allowance

Job summary

MetLife UK is seeking a Field Account Manager for Individual Protection to engage advisers, networks, and partners across the UK. You will deliver face-to-face meetings, presentations, and event support to drive growth and strengthen key relationships.

As part of our New Frontier strategy, you will work closely with SAMs and Account Executives to execute multi-channel plans, travel across regions, and represent MetLife at industry events while maintaining accurate activity records and delivering

Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate effectively with field, strategic, and telephony-based roles.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills.
• Strong relationship management capability.
• Good commercial awareness and market knowledge.
• Highly organised and self-motivated with ability to manage travel.
• Professional, proactive, and results-focused approach.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• Able and willing to work in a field-based role, UK wide, attending an onsite office (Brighton) day once a month.

Responsibilities

• Deliver regular face-to-face engagement with advisers, firms, and networks across assigned regions and accounts.
• Conduct high-quality presentations, training sessions, and account reviews tailored to partner needs.
• Represent MetLife at industry and network events, including manning stands and hosting sessions.
• Support Strategic Account Managers in executing account plans and strengthening relationships.
• Partner with Account Executives to ensure consistent messaging and maximise opportunity conversion.
• Identify and escalation new business opportunities, risks, and competitor activity.
• Build strong adviser relationships to drive product understanding and sales growth.
• Maintain accurate records of activity and feedback insights into the wider team.

Skills

Collaboration

Presentation

Relationship mgmt

Commercial awareness

Organization

Travel management

Proactive approach

Driving licence

Field-based UK

Job description

The Opportunity

Field Account Manager - Individual Protection (IP) will represent MetLife in the field, delivering high-impact engagement with advisers, networks, and partners across the UK Individual Protection market. By strengthening and deepening relationships with key accounts through regular in-person meetings, presentations, and event support you will contribute to the success and growth of the UK IP business. Guided by our purpose - always with you building a more confident future - and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to work in close partnership with Strategic Account Managers (SAMs) and Account Executives (telephony-based) to deliver a coordinated, multi-channel account strategy. Leverage strong market knowledge to position MetLife effectively and respond to partner needs and competitive dynamics. Represent MetLife at industry events, conferences, and network forums to enhance brand presence and identify opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver regular face-to-face engagement with advisers, firms, and networks across assigned regions and accounts.
• Conduct high-quality presentations, training sessions, and account reviews tailored to partner needs.
• Represent MetLife at industry and network events, including manning stands and hosting sessions.
• Support Strategic Account Managers in executing account plans and strengthening relationships.
• Partner with Account Executives to ensure consistent messaging and maximise opportunity conversion.
• Identify and escalation new business opportunities, risks, and competitor activity.
• Build strong adviser relationships to drive product understanding and sales growth.
• Maintain accurate records of activity and feedback insights into the wider team.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to collaborate effectively with field, strategic, and telephony-based roles.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills.
• Strong relationship management capability.
• Good commercial awareness and market knowledge.
• Highly organised and self-motivated with ability to manage travel.
• Professional, proactive, and results-focused approach.
• Full UK Driving License.
• Able and willing to work in a field-based role, UK wide, attending an onsite office (Brighton) day once a month.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced gained from the UK Insurance Protection market.

The expected salary range for this position is £35200 - £47000. This role may also be eligible for incentive compensation under the sales plan for the position. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Benefits We Offer

MetLife UK offers a range of benefits to deliver value to our employees and their families, supporting their health, wellbeing and financial security. Our flexible benefits offering provides freedom, choice, and flexibility in the way that you receive your benefits to better suit your lifestyle, meet some of your practical needs, and provide advantages in terms of tax and National Insurance savings. Our core benefits include 9% employer pension contributions with up to 4% matching available, comprehensive private medical insurance, income protection insurance, and life insurance. We offer a host of additional benefits that you can choose to buy including critical illness/dental/travel/gadget insurance, annual leave buy/sell, partner life insurance and more. All employees receive a £20 benefits allowance per month to spend on any additional benefits they select.

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible.Join us!