Retirement Solutions Business Development Manager in Sheffield, Yorkshire

This is a great role for someone who is currently in a sales role or looking to get into this field, and who is keen to take the next step in their career and build their knowledge of the Retirement Solutions Market - a core focus of the Insurance, Wealth, and Retirement (IWR) business.

A bit about the job: This is a predominately telephony based role aligned to the Equity Release, Annuity and Long Term Care Market within intermediated distribution. These products are part of the IWR strategy and play an integral role in the success of the business. As the Business Development Manager you will play a vital role in establishing relationships with our intermediaries and finding opportunities to work with our face to face BDMs to improve those relationships, and therefore the role is key to ensuring that we maximise the potential of our proposition in the Retirement Solutions market and take advantage of the opportunities within each of the markets we operate in.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with the wider distribution team and contribute to achieving sales targets.
• Ideally expertise in engaging with medium to large sized firms through proactive outbound sales calls, aimed at growing business, whilst ensuring service quality and adhering to risk management principles.
• Proficiency in using various forms of communication platforms, such as phone, email, Microsoft Teams, and LinkedIn to generate leads and promote our propositions to advisers.
• Experience in managing relationships and using data to manage performance and identify business opportunities with those business relationships.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills to win business and increase market share.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Bonus opportunity - 8% (C grade) of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carers leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

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 at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.