Job Description

Location: Wakefield / South Leeds

Working style: Remote with travel (Company Car or Allowance provided)

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join Royal London in a key role delivering agreed new business targets from a strong panel of Intermediaries, with a particular focus on broadening and deepening our reach across the UK financial adviser channel ensuring Royal London is recognised as having market leading propositions.

The successful candidate will be joining an experienced team who protect and develop Royal London’s mutually valued relationships in the UK financial advice market.

With a strong customer focus, we will extend our reach into all channels and platforms through which consumers access long term savings and pension products, contributing to Distribution team targets.

About the role

• Deliver personal sales targets from a panel of Intermediaries and develop new Intermediary relationships, growing your panel through building strong relationships
• By developing strong consultative led business relationships, you will champion Royal London’s propositions, representing Distribution in front of external customers
• You will work with colleagues across the business to maximise opportunities for profitable new business production, providing meaningful insight to help develop our proposition and ensuring it meets the evolving needs of customers and financial advisers
• Deliver sales presentations to Intermediaries promoting new and existing sales opportunities, using these sessions to broaden and deepen our reach to customers
• You will become a trusted partner to your panel by adding value, improving outcomes, and ensuring a smooth, efficient, and professional sales process guided by consumer duty principles.
• Identify, measure, assign appropriate ownership, manage, and monitor all risks and controls in line with the RCSA methodology.
• Support and follow-up central sales campaigns and National Partnership events, aligning colleagues and resources to maximise profitable new business production.

About you

• A strong understanding of the competitive landscape to ensure that Royal London remains a 'partner-of-choice' and proactively identify ways to create new relationships
• Experience within a Business Development role with a demonstratable and successful track record in Financial Services is essential
• Ability to deliver sales through a consultative approach using strong verbal and written communication
• The knowledge to discuss and debate industry issues, technical and legislative updates, with the ability to present these in a competent and influential manner
• Level 4 qualified equivalent within the required timeframe or a desire to meet them
• A proven track record in establishing rapport and building strong relationships in a face-to-face or video conferencing environment.

If you feel you’d be a great fit for Royal London but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Research shows some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria - if you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply!

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.