Business Development Manager
Eight Financial Advice
Base salary + Commission (Uncapped)
Eight Financial Advice is one of the UK's leading financial planning businesses, serving almost 20,000 clients, managing over £5 billion of client assets and supporting more than 70 Financial Advisers across the UK. As part of our ambitious growth strategy, we are creating a new Business Development Manager role within our Business Growth Team.
This is a highly commercial role focused on building a structured pipeline of partnerships and introducer relationships across employers, professional services firms, employee benefit providers, accountants, payroll providers, solicitors and corporate organisations. The successful candidate will help create new client acquisition opportunities whilst increasing the visibility and reach of Eight Financial Advice across the UK.
Requirements
Essential
- Proven success in B2B Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Corporate Relationship Management or New Business roles.
- Strong experience engaging senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills.
- Strong negotiation and commercial acumen.
- High-level CRM discipline and data management capability.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
Desirable
- Experience within Financial Services, Wealth Management, Employee Benefits, Professional Services or related sectors.
- Understanding of financial planning or wealth management propositions.
- Knowledge of workplace financial wellbeing programmes.
- Familiarity with the St. James’s Place operating model.
The Person
We are looking for a proactive, commercially driven self-starter who is energised by creating opportunities and building trusted relationships.
You will be naturally curious, highly motivated and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy. You understand how to build structured prospecting strategies, maintain a healthy pipeline and convert opportunities into long-term commercial partnerships.
Benefits
- Uncapped earning potential
- Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 days wherever you work best
- Performance bonus + Company-wide bonus
- 28 days' holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
- Private medical insurance & life assurance (4x salary)
- Wellbeing support: EAP, mental health helpline, cycle-to-work scheme
- Free mortgage and pension advice from our in-house experts
- Volunteering time: 8 paid hours annually via The Eight Foundation
- Regular socials & epic events
Skills Required
- Proven success in B2B Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Corporate Relationship Management or New Business roles
- Strong experience engaging senior stakeholders and decision-makers
- Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills
- Strong negotiation and commercial acumen
- High-level CRM discipline and data management capability
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Experience within Financial Services, Wealth Management, Employee Benefits, Professional Services or related sectors
- Understanding of financial planning or wealth management propositions
- Knowledge of workplace financial wellbeing programmes
- Familiarity with the St. James's Place operating model
What We Do
At EIGHT Financial Advice, a multi-award winning Principal Partner Practice of St. James's Place Wealth Management, we have a wide range of expertise and knowledge, developed over many years, to help people - both individually and in business - fulfil their aims and aspirations, as well as offering that all important 'peace of mind' for the future. Putting our clients firmly at the heart of everything we do enables us to run a genuinely client-focused business. In our experience, no two clients are the same and we therefore ensure that we understand your personal or business objectives and deliver solutions that are right for you. We aim to deliver our commitment by: - Providing personal face to face financial advice - Giving you the opportunity to review your financial affairs regularly - Effectively managing your investments via our distinctive approach - Keeping you informed of the latest news - Listening to your feedback - Offering you seminars and events We do not provide off the shelf solutions, but we offer the benefit of a single relationship for all of your financial planning needs. We strive to offer the very best service to develop great relationships. The value of an investment with St. James's Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested. EIGHT Financial Advice is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James's Place Wealth Management Plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website at https://www.sjp.co.uk/products. The St. James’s Place Partnership and the titles ‘Partner’ and ‘Partner Practice’ are marketing terms used to describe St. James’s Place representatives. EIGHT Financial Advice is a trading name of Eight Wealth Management.
