Salary: £35k - £45k + £20k - £25k Bonus (1st year)
Business Development Manager for Top Investment Firm / Fund Sales / Wealth / Private Equity / Venture Capital / Investment Sales
No previous financial services experience is needed but you must be a highly motivated, articulate, passionate person who would thrive whilst working in a fast-paced sales team.
The team is expanding rapidly and they aim to provide a level of technical expertise, commercial support and personal service that is unrivalled in the financial services industry.
- Educating Financial Advisers on the fund range and why they would appeal as a potential investment for their clients
- Working with an External BDM to build and deliver the business plan for your region
- Management and development of existing Adviser / IFA relationships
- Building client base
- Point of contact for all inbound Financial Advisers queries
- Provide an exceptional level of customer service
- Implement new sales and marketing campaigns
- Help educate financial advisers and empower them to solve their clients’ needs
- Mentoring and training
- Arrange adviser meetings for External BDMs and where required perform meetings yourself
- Provide product feedback and identify needs of advisers’
- Aid flow of information from Business Line and Product Managers to advisers
- Improve internal systems to ensure the team works in an efficient way
- Presentations to Advisors
- Attend and support IFA and industry conferences/seminars, as requested
- Contribute to virtual product teams as product expert or deputy expert
- Constantly improve product and industry knowledge
Experience / Qualifications
- We are hiring at various level so 1-5 years sales experience as a minimum from any industry
- A proven track record of delivering on sales targets
- Passionate about delivering excellent customer service
- You will be target driven and own your own KPIs
- You would have built sales skills which would allow you to build a business plan quickly and show results
- Resilience you have built up in your career will be evident from your past achievements
- You will be a great listener and know when to ask what questions at what time
- You will be collaborate, working effectively with the people around you and as a team