Tele-Digital Business Development Manager (South Coast)

Job title: Tele-Digital Business Development Manager

Location: Remote role covering South Coast, with travel flexibility

Salary: £82,000 - £91,000

Hours: Full time

About this opportunity:

Our team is at the forefront of the financial industry, driving innovation and delivering exceptional service to our clients. We're looking for a passionate and experienced Business Development Manager to join our vibrant team. You'll be working remotely, covering the South Coast, with the flexibility to travel as needed. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a company that values growth, collaboration and excellence.

As a Business Development Manager, you'll play a crucial role in achieving our goal of becoming a top 3 provider in the protection market. You'll leverage your expertise to build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse panel of intermediaries, ensuring that all regulatory and compliance responsibilities are met. Your strategic approach and dedication will help us meet our corporate objectives and drive new business opportunities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Proactively develop positive relationships with a designated panel of brokers, taking full ownership for generating new business sales against target.
• Help intermediaries identify new market opportunities and growth opportunities from existing clients.
• Complete a minimum of 10 face-to-face or Teams meetings a week, including presentations at industry events and seminars.
• Develop a robust pipeline of new business opportunities and ensure long-term adviser engagement.
• Plan, forecast and set quarterly objectives/initiatives to contribute to achieving target.
• Identify new intermediary opportunities within your region.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• Subject matter expert within the Protection arena.
• Effective communicator who can keep up to date with the Scottish Widows Protect proposition.
• Passionate about the protection market and able to demonstrate a growth mindset, recognising that as the market changes, your role requirements may need to adapt.
• Ideally be working towards or have achieved CII/PFS Level 4.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills to all partners.
• Proven track record in target achievement and excellent organisational skills.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know!

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares!
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!