Business Development Associate (UK Adviser Channel)

Please note this position is based in London and this will be the contractual location of the successful candidate, other locations cannot be considered.

Business Development Associate (UK Adviser Channel)

This is a great job for someone who has a solid understanding of Intermediary market and investment products specifically multi asset.

A bit about the job:

We are looking for a Business Development Associate to join our Global Wealth UK team. Based in London, you will be responsible for supporting our sales Directors in development of new business and engaging directly with a panel of smaller adviser firms. The role sits within our Global Wealth UK team, which is responsible for managing and developing relationships with intermediaries and discretionary wealth managers. Within the role you will work with regional sales directors to look after small value Adviser accounts and manage an individual panel of accounts and work closely with regional sales team to provide most suitable client coverage. You will be responsible for monitoring and tracking client data to monitor sales flow, identify new opportunities and support accounts at risk for attrition whilst working closely with their regional sales team.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong sales and relationship experience. Ability to seek key decision maker and fact find to create sales opportunity.

• Confidence and ability to generate new leads and develop relations with prospective clients over the phone. 

• Ability to analyse client, market and regulatory trends.

• Ability to position investment products to appropriate market segments.

• Currently working towards IMC of desire to do so.  

What you’ll get for this role:

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in

• Eligibility for annual performance bonus

• Family friendly parental and carer’s leave

• Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products

• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars

• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme

• 21 volunteering hours per year

In this role you’ll be ‘Certified’ under the Financial Conduct Authority / Prudential Regulation Authority’s Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). This means that we’ll need to complete some regulatory background checks on you before you take up your role and we’ll need to ask you some questions on an annual basis to make sure you remain ‘fit and proper’ and competent to carry out your role. We’ll provide training on what holding a SMCR role means when you join us and annually thereafter.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, send an email to [email protected]

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