Divisional Sales Manager

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Based in either the North or South of England with regular travel across the region including overnight stay.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: 14th February

Salary and benefits: From £90k ,plus on target bonus of 30% to 60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at  Standard Life, part of the Phoenix Group as a Senior Investment Development Manager to join our Retail Intermediary Sales  team.

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

Responsible for leading a regional Retail Intermediary Distribution team for SL and SL International.  The role focuses on leading a team of Business Distribution Managers and Telephone Account Managers to deliver the regional sales plan across products (wrappers) and Standard Life's hero investment funds - SMF & Future Advantage.

This role will also personally drive external relationships with large Financial Advice firms. The role holder will contribute to planning and execution of the Standard Life Intermediary strategy and will monitor and drive account effective account management activity to support the business plan. This role will require effective cross functional working relationships with predominantly marketing but also proposition to help inform and drive the future business strategy.

What are we looking for?

Responsible for building and developing a team of relationship managers to Identify and manage prospective client accounts within agreed sectors, identifying key influencers and establishing relationships.

Clear execution of the Distribution strategy at a regional level across multiple regional hubs to deliver the sales plan.

Forge target market client relationships in order to develop new business opportunities for Standard Life Group.

Work collaboratively with the Marketing and Proposition to support growth in the business plan.

Achieve targeted business activity, including meeting targeted new business and retained existing business , identifying business needs and maximising  the Standard Life value proposition to the Intermediary marketplace

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix

• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
• Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us

#LI-MF1