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Associate Business Development Manager

Employer
Lloyds Banking Group
Location
London
Salary
£33,993 - £44,130
Closing date
16 Dec 2021

Job Details

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're motivated by a clear purpose - to Help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

We're seeing unprecedented changes in the banking sector brought about by shifts in technology, our customers' changing preferences and the evolving and regulatory environment. So we're adapting, innovating and responding at pace to ensure we're the best bank for customers.

Insurance and Wealth helps personal and business customers with their long-term protection, retirement, and investment needs. We support around 10 million customers with assets under administration of £155 billion and annuity payments in retirement of over £1 billion every year

This is an exciting opportunity to join Scottish Widows' Individual Pensions Distribution team within the dynamic and fast-paced Insurance and Wealth Division of Lloyds Banking Group. This modern and flexible role plays an integral part in the Division's strategy of 'protecting today, securing tomorrow', through the promotion of our Individual Pension proposition, to help meet the retirement planning and income needs of UK Intermediary customers as we continue our ambition to be the best Life and Pension company in the UK.

As an Associate Business Development Manager you will build relationships with intermediary accounts, working alongside the Business Development Managers to help increase the flow of new business, retain existing assets and identify and help deliver marketing initiatives to improve overall engagement.

Based across London and surrounding area, reporting to the Regional Development Manager, this role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop the skills and experience to progress in a Business Development environment. You will work closely with different areas of the business to help shape our take to market proposition, identify business opportunities and help deliver areas for growth.

This role creates the perfect foundation for someone that currently works within the financial services sector looking to develop their skills and capabilities to manage external relationships in a field based role.

This is a great time to be joining an organisation that is transforming ways of working to create a modern environment that supports the growth and development of our colleagues and a culture of flexible autonomy and personal responsibility.

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop an understanding of how a Business Development role operates, and as part of this help shape the strategy by creating valuable relationships with the intermediary market.

  • Identify ways of generating additional revenues and expand our geographical footprint with intermediaries with the use of performance data and analytics tools.

  • Formulate and implement a business account plan using a range of strategies. Enabling you to have a detailed understanding of the people, business strengths, weaknesses, goals and decision-making behaviour of a panel of intermediary accounts.

  • Identify and implement business opportunities alongside Business Development Managers and Telephone Account Managers to support the growth of a panel of accounts.

  • Work with other business areas to identify ways to build upon the Scottish Widows Individual Pensions proposition, engaging with specialist resources, whilst at the same time helping to develop your own understanding.

  • Develop a panel of intermediaries and begin engaging on the Scottish Widows proposition, demonstrating the support available to advisers with the ability to introduce the Business Development Manager to build a relationship.

  • Longer term, look to take accountability for a panel of intermediaries as the primary Business Development owner.

  • As part of this opportunity you have the chance to help shape your own training & development alongside the Regional Development Manager, to achieve your own personal goals.

  • Align with specified risk and compliance procedures and practises whilst operating within Lloyds Banking Group policies at all times.

Key Capabilities

  • Good organisational skills - ability to prioritise the most important things.

  • Experience of creating and managing relationships (both internally and externally) and the ability to build rapport, trust and customer confidence.

  • Ability to present at most levels and use appropriate questioning techniques.

  • Knowledge of the individual pension market, business development or regulatory landscape desirable.

  • An ability to research what key competitors are able to offer.

  • Attention to detail and the ability to challenge different ways of working to ensure we achieve the optimum result.

  • The desire to work towards achieving CII/PFS Level 4 Qualification.

 

 

What's in it for you?

We're passionate about development with a culture built around advancing the best of our people. We're genuine about equal opportunity as well as our people representing the communities we serve.

 

We're also an early adopter of agile working and open to considering all aspects of this to suit individual and business requirements on a flexible basis.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values led culture that is passionate about making a difference. Whatever your aspiration you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that is enriching and full of opportunity.

 

Together we make it possible.

 

 

Company

We’re creating an organisation that attracts, retains and develops the best talent in the industry, and one that openly embraces diversity too. But more than that – we want to be a great place to work. We invest in our people, offering the best training and coaching, and by encouraging them to contribute to our leading corporate and social responsibility practices. We offer flexible working hours and days, under our Work Options scheme. This means that you can have a challenging and rewarding career, and still have an ideal work/life balance.

Flexible working is at the heart of our strategy. We’re re-imagining where, when, and how our people work, with new approaches designed to meet the ever-changing needs of customers and colleagues. These include increasing our use of remote-working tools and technology, as well as placing less reliance on a 9-to-5 mindset. For many of our office-based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.

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