About the Business
Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.
Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.
Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.
High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.
At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.
Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!
About the Role
Level: 4
Location: Remote with national travel
Department: Network - Distribution
Contract: Permanent
The Protection Business Development Manager is a specialist role within the Mortgage & Protection Relationship Management Team. The team works in partnership with firms and advisers to help them build stronger, more sustainable businesses that deliver positive customer outcomes. The Mortgage & Protection Relationship Management Team builds trusted partnerships with firms to create measurable impact. We combine commercial insight, constructive challenge, problem solving and collaboration to help firms build stronger, more sustainable businesses and deliver better customer outcomes.
Working collaboratively with Relationship Managers, firm principals, advisers, providers and colleagues across Quilter, you will identify opportunities to improve protection performance, adviser capability and the consistency and quality of protection conversations. You will use insight, data and your industry expertise to understand the underlying barriers to protection growth and develop focused interventions that create measurable and sustainable improvement.
You will design and deliver engaging development activity for defined adviser audiences, including workshops, webinars, campaigns, coaching and tailored firm support. Your focus will extend beyond delivering training to ensuring that learning is translated into changed adviser behaviour, improved customer outcomes and quality protection growth.
You will work with Relationship Managers to secure principal-level commitment, agree clear objectives and establish appropriate measures of success. You will take ownership of activity from initial diagnosis through to delivery, follow‑up and evaluation, evidencing the difference your intervention has made.
The role will also contribute to the ongoing development of Quilter's protection proposition. You will use adviser, firm and market insight to influence initiatives, technology, communications and support materials, working closely with Proposition, Supervision and Oversight, providers and other internal stakeholders.
You will share knowledge and best practice across the Relationship Management Team and wider Distribution function, building protection confidence and capability beyond your own activity. The role is primarily home‑based, with travel required for firm meetings, events and development sessions.
Consumer Duty
This role will directly impact good customer outcomes by working closely with Network firms and Distribution teams to develop and strengthen skills and knowledge relating to protection advice, with a view to ensuring customers receive quality advice which adequately protects them and their future.
About You
You will bring strong experience of the mortgage and protection market, together with a genuine commitment to improving the quality and consistency of protection advice.
You will be comfortable working with firm principals and advisers, building credibility quickly and constructively challenging established thinking or behaviours where this will lead to stronger customer and business outcomes. You will be able to move conversations beyond product knowledge and help firms understand the commercial, customer and cultural factors that influence protection performance.
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:
Strong knowledge of the UK protection market, including customer needs, advice considerations,
Protection Business Development Manager - Quilter employer: eFinancialCareers
As a leading global asset manager based in London, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that values innovation and collaboration. Our employees benefit from comprehensive professional development opportunities, competitive compensation packages, and the chance to work with cutting-edge AI tools that enhance their skills and productivity. Join us to be part of a team that not only drives success but also prioritises employee well-being and growth in a vibrant city.
