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Job Type: Permanent Location: Field role with the requirement to travel across London and the South as well as home working. 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. Closing Date: 27 October 2023 Salary and benefits: Up to £85k, 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 Phoenix Group as a Business Development Manager within our Private Client Services Sales Team. You’d be managing relationships with the UK’s leading Private Banks and Wealth Managers, a key focus for us our business moving forward. Who are we? 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 We’re looking for a high performing, experienced Business Development professional to join our growing business. The successful candidate will play a key role working with the UK’s leading Private Client Wealth Managers to identify and secure profitable opportunities for Standard Life. This will include Standard Life’s long-standing retirement and savings products such as our SIPP and International Bond, which are used by Private Client Wealth Managers to facilitate investment through their in-house propositions. To be successful in this role, you will be proven high achiever who is well versed in delivering an exception level of relationship management and managing key relationships. A key objective of the role is to increase business levels across our proposition through the development of new and existing relationships with a panel of accounts.. What are we looking for? Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with financial advisers, paraplanners and administrators across a panel of accounts, via face to face and hybrid engagement. Working with central product management and research teams to establish panel positions Accountability for achieving targeted business activity. Production of business plans for aligned accounts to define activity required to exceed business targets across all products, identifying and exploiting opportunities for growth. To utilise available MI and other insights to drive actions and activity. Capability to present Standard Life proposition and other value add material to external audiences, for example technical updates and adviser team meetings. 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