Strategic Account Manager
- Employer
- Nest Corporation
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- up to £56,000
- Closing date
- 29 Jan 2020
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- Sector
- Accountancy, Banking, Finance, Public Sector
- Hours
- Full Time, Part Time
- Flexibility
- Home working available
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
This is a permanent position, applications from job shares are welcome.
The role is with a salary of up to £56,000 per year plus benefits.
Nest is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all the nine protected characteristics.
This will require travel to review clients which are mainly based in the North of the UK including Scotland, the North East, the North West & Midlands. The role is home based with occasional visits to the office, these are expensed through NEST- travel and accommodation accordingly.
Team overview
The Customer Engagement Directorate is responsible for maintaining, managing, assessing and developing the Nest product and service in a way that delivers our key business outcomes.
The Employer and Intermediary Experience (ERIX) team is here to drive change for Nest to become a provider of choice. It does this by understanding Nest’s customers, retaining, developing and winning profitable employers into the Nest scheme.
We’re responsible for:
Understanding our employers and intermediaries to enable us to develop the Nest product and services based on their requirements
Retaining profitable business for those employers and intermediaries who use the Nest scheme
Developing more profitable business from existing, managed employers and intermediaries who use the Nest scheme
Acquiring new profitable employers to use the Nest scheme. Negotiating and securing intermediaries: accountants, payroll bureaux, advisers and employee benefits consultants for panel status positions and trading
The team have a responsibility to be a primary link (“the ears and eyes”) of the external pensions market, for Nest.
Role overview
The role of the Strategic Account Manager is to manage a portfolio of strategic accounts, ensuring that business is retained and developed to maximise revenue opportunities. The portfolio will be mixed including large employer accounts as well as intermediaries. Most of the account management service is expected to be delivered face to face.
Experience and technical skills The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following experience and technical skills:
Significant auto enrolment, defined contribution and trust-based pensions knowledge
A good understanding of the different types of customers NEST has and the different engagement approaches required for each
Ability to understand profitability models and how they relate to an account management framework
Detailed working level knowledge of NEST systems and processes or ability to develop this quickly
A skilled and confident presenter, comfortable in front of large audiences
Highly skilled in relationship management, influencing outcomes and objection handling
Preferably an existing knowledge of the automatic enrolment intermediaries market
Preferably a good understanding of the payroll market and how it fits into NEST’s delivery model
Preferably a previous background in account management
Preferably experience of meeting and exceeding revenue and retention targets
Preferably a financial services sales background
Highly proficient telephony skills
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office programmes and comfortable with leveraging new technologies
Personal attributes required We are looking for an employee with the following attributes:
Highly motivated and self-managed, able to work without supervision to an agreed framework
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, ability to solve own problems
A team player who will share knowledge with colleagues and contribute to team objectives
A positive outlook, and an ability to find solutions not problems
A strong planner with good time management skills
Technically minded with excellent attention to detail
Someone who takes personal responsibility for their own development
Comfortable with a changing and evolving environment and not afraid to try new approaches
Education/qualification requirements Professional qualifications (e.g. PMI, FPC, ACII) preferred however relevant skills and experience will be considered
Differentiators
We expect most of the account management will be delivered face to face and the jobholder will be expected to spend time building relationships with employers and intermediaries and then maintaining these relationships ongoing.
Therefore, the jobholder must be willing to travel across the UK, with overnight stays where required. A driving license is required since some clients may not be accessible by public transport.
The role can be home based or office based.
The application closing date: 17 January 2020
Company
NEST is a great UK success story.
Established in 2010, NEST is a critical pillar of the Government’s automatic enrolment programme, with a public service obligation (PSO) to accept any employer wishing to use the scheme to discharge their automatic enrolment duties. From a standing start, we have delivered a high quality, low cost pension scheme open to all, which has not only delivered on its mission, but has also helped to drive up standards and best practice across the industry. Now with over 6 million members and well over half a million participating employers, NEST is playing a critical role in helping people save for their retirement - many of them low to moderate earners who may be saving for the first time, and moving jobs frequently. NEST now occupies an important place in the pensions market and will deliver high quality pensions to mass market consumers for many years to come, leveraging its scale to deliver value through the combination of low costs, market leading investment solutions and modernised services all overseen by strong Trustee governance.
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