Associate, SFA Recruitment (Front Office Recruitment)

Singlife Financial Advisers; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Singlife seeks a strategic recruitment lead to drive retention and growth of the sales force across its agency network. You will formulate recruitment goals, track success metrics, and work with leadership to scale the team from internal and external channels.

Collaborating with business development and training teams, you will recruit leaders and wealth managers, tailor strategies for experienced agents, mid-career switches, and fresh graduates, and ensure execution of recruitment initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in a tied insurer or financial advisory firm as sales or sales support.
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.

Responsibilities

• Establish recruitment goals and introduce measurements to determine key success factors.
• Formulate and drive initiatives for existing leaders to sustain and increase the agency strength.
• Recruitment growth for organic and inorganic new leaders and wealth managers.
• Working with the business development team to deliver and track success of the group.
• Organise and execute recruitment activities.
• Working with training department to develop and improve performance for new sales force.
• To provide clear strategy for different segmentation of potential recruits i.e. experienced agents, mid-career switch, specific industry cross-over, fresh graduates, etc.

Skills

Sales

Relationship building

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Singlife is a leading homegrown financial services company, offering consumers a better way to financial freedom. Through innovative, technology-enabled solutions and a wide range of products and services, Singlife provides consumers control over their financial wellbeing at every stage of their lives.

In addition to a comprehensive suite of insurance plans, employee benefits, partnerships with financial adviser channels and bancassurance, Singlife offers investment and advisory solutions through its GROW with Singlife platform. It also offers the Singlife Account, a mobile-first insurance savings plan.

Singlife is the exclusive insurance provider for the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme. Singlife is also an official signatory of the United Nations Principles for Sustainable Insurance and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, affirming its commitment to finding a better way to sustainability.

The merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife was announced in September 2020 and created one of the largest homegrown financial services companies in Singapore in a deal valued at S$3.2 billion. It was the largest insurance deal in Singapore at the time.

Singlife was subsequently acquired by Sumitomo Life in March 2024, one of Japan’s leading life insurers, which valued Singlife at S$4.6 billion, making the transaction one of the largest insurance deals in Southeast Asia.

Purpose of the Role

To formulate and execute strategies to drive the success of retention and growth of the sales force

Key Responsibilities

• Establish recruitment goals and introduce measurements to determine key success factors
• Formulate and drive initiatives for existing leaders to sustain and increase the agency strength
• Recruitment growth for organic and inorganic new leaders and wealth managers
• Working with the business development team to deliver and track success of the group
• Organise and execute recruitment activities
• Working with training department to develop and improve performance for new sales force
• To provide clear strategy for different segmentation of potential recruits i.e. experienced agents, mid-career switch, specific industry cross-over, fresh graduates, etc.

Requirements

Experience

• Experience in either a tied insurer or financial advisory firm as sales, sales support roles will be advantageous
• Resourceful and familiar with financing scheme available in the landscape
• Ability to build strong relationships with people at all levels (internally and externally)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is required.

Education