Retail Business Consultant X3 Pretoria

Momentum; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Pretoria seeks a Retail Business Consultant to build partnerships with IFAs, enhance sales performance, and provide strategic insights. Ideal candidates must hold a BCom degree and have 3-5 years' experience in the financial sector, along with excellent communication skills and sales expertise. Join us to enable better financial outcomes and exceed production targets.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years' financial service industry experience desired.
• 1 to 3 years relevant sales experience essential.
• Strong knowledge in risk assessments, claims, underwriting, and tax.

Responsibilities

• Engage with IFAs to understand their needs and drive value.
• Visit IFA offices based on a defined plan to deliver messages.
• Monitor prescribed weekly activities to exceed sales targets.

Skills

Financial service industry experience

Sales experience

Business acumen

Knowledge of financial services products

Education

3-year BCom degree in Business Management, Marketing, or related fields

CFP (advantage)

Job description

Momentum, a financial services provider of choice since 1966, known for its entrepreneurial spirit and innovative culture is committed to wealth creation and preservation, insurance, and income protection for all our clients. We do this through our understanding of the retail insurance, savings, and investment markets in SA.

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Role Purpose

The Retail Business Consultant crafts passionate, energetic, and meaningful partnerships with IFAs that will stand the test of time. Product, market, and sales intelligence will set them apart from their counterparts. The consultant/IFA relationship will be strengthened by ease of doing business, first-class services, deep business analysis and continuous improvement of the IFA\'s business.

Qualifications

• 3-year BCom degree in the following fields: Business Management, Marketing, Communications, Finance and Legal (essential)
• Willingness to study towards the degree and recognition of prior learning if you have 3+ years of experience working in MDS.
• CFP is an advantage.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years’ financial service industry experience (desired)
• 1 to 3 years relevant sales experience (essential) ? Experience in Momentum Myriad and Investo products is an advantage
• Strong business acumen with sound knowledge in risk assessments, claims, underwriting, tax, business assurance
• Knowledge of financial services industry and insurance products (desired)

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the financial services industry.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation.
• Knowledge of the sales process. ? Relevant product knowledge.

Duties & Responsibilities

Engage

• Be visible to the IFA in order to understand their needs and drive their value proposition
• Visit the IFA and IFA office based on a defined plan and deliver a message
• Analyse, monitor and/or increase prescribed weekly activities to exceed sales targets.
• Present the professional, disciplined nature of the IFA Agenda and minutes of all meetings

Enthuse

• Understand who we are targeting, the landscape they are working in, competitor influences, events that will enthuse, critical moments of truth used.
• Ensure long-lasting, deep, and meaningful relationships with the IFA
• IFAs to move from non-active supporters to active supporters, to ambassadors

Educate

• IFA having the perception that Momentum are thought leaders.
• Be the IFA\'s source of information within Momentum
• Be accountable, innovative, excellent, honest, diverse, and influential in your business dealings
• Enable better financial planning and advice outcomes

Enable

• IFA having the perception that Momentum are thought leaders.
• Be the IFA\'s source of information within Momentum
• Be accountable, innovative, excellent, honest, diverse, and influential in your business dealings
• Enable better financial planning and advice outcomes
• Achieve and/or exceed the minimum production targets
• Achieve and/or exceed the minimum productive IFAs required

Competencies

• Brand Ambassadorship
• Leading and Supervising
• Professional standards
• Relating and networking (building rapport and relationships)
• Stress tolerance
• Flawless and effective communication (written and oral)
• Delivering results and meeting stakeholder expectations
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Positively impact and influence on the IFA practice
• Deadline Driven
• Able to travel as much as the job requires and travel documentation in order
• Persuading and influencing