Job description
Overall Job Purpose
- Drive new and incremental API to both VitalityLife and Health
- Meet and exceed network market share growth objectives
- Increase the number of Vitality supporters within each distributor
- Maintain panel position where applicable
- Present Vitality’s proposition to national accounts and their member firms
- Devise and develop a robust marketing plan to support key goals
- Manage the key relationships at Network and RI level
- Work across and in conjunction with all Vitality sales distribution
- Provide technical and market intelligence backup to the sales teams
- Grow Vitality awareness and identify sales procedures or policies inhibiting use of our products
Accountabilities
- Minimum 5 years industry experience in a sales/technical role
- Strong sales and commercial focus
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal at Board and RI level
- Ability to deliver good quality sales and technical presentation material to educate our advisers
- Strong negotiating skills
- Self-starter - prepared to initiate a high level of field-based activity
- Comprehensive industry knowledge (regulatory, technical and competitor)
- Capable of working under pressure, using own initiative and with minimal supervision
- Flexible working style
- Honest with high integrity
- Strong organisational and administrative skills
- Ability to work in a team environment, using initiative and working under pressure and to set deadlines
- Works to Vitality values
Skills Required
Essential
- Ideally FPC/QCF4 or equivalent qualified
- Educational background to A Level standard
- Comprehensive knowledge of the UK protection and intermediary markets
Desirable
- Previous supervision experience of financial advisory key accounts and/or networks desirable
Regulatory Responsibilities (Standard for all roles)
You are required to understand and comply with all relevant rules, regulation and legislation applicable to your role. This means:
- acting with integrity and due skill, care and diligence at all times
- ensuring that customers are treated fairly at all times
- ensuring that communications via any medium meet the principle of 'clear, fair and not misleading'
- undertaking relevant internally arranged training on systems, processes and regulatory requirements relevant to your role
- identifying and escalating (through your line manager) risks that impact the business, customers or other third parties
- reporting (through your line manager) any issues and/or system/process failures that may impact on service to customers
- Further details of relevant regulation can be found on the Vitality intranet