Head of Strategic Development

Job Title: Head of Strategic Development

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Home based with travel

We have a fantastic opportunity to join Royal London's Commercial team to protect and develop Royal London's mutually valued relationships in the UK financial advice market. This role is key to delivering the Distribution strategy, with a particular focus on identifying and securing new strategic partnerships with intermediaries, national advice businesses and other financial services institutions.

You will inspire, coach, and lead a team of Business Development Directors who jointly have responsibility for developing new emerging relationships. You will be responsible for planning, developing and executing strategies to develop long lasting relationships, through the distribution of Royal London's proposition.

About the role

• Ownership of revenue generation and growth ensuring the financial performance targets are delivered for the area.
• Work with strategy, proposition and marketing areas to develop and implement take to market strategies.
• Lead the end to end tender exercise from identifying opportunities through to winning new mandates and opportunities by attending pitches.
• Develop and deliver a strategic plan to unlock new strategic partnerships, both yourself and by leading your team to achieve new business growth. Seek to achieve targeted growth on all products with a view to broaden and deepen our reach to all advisers.
• Attend meetings as the senior Royal London sponsor to develop and maintain strong business relationships through face to face and virtual meetings.
• Exceptional delivery and articulation of Royal London's products, proposition, and services to prospective new adviser relationships.
• Role model senior leadership qualities to inspire, communicate and engage Distribution colleagues.
• Influence senior stakeholders within the business and contribute towards achieving the commercial objectives for Distribution.

About you

• Deep understanding of the competitive landscape to ensure that Royal London remains a 'partner-of-choice' and proactively identify ways to create new relationships.
• Strategic level thinker with a long term outlook.
• Excellent Knowledge of industry standards, regulations, and best practices that may come up in field visits with adviser firms.
• Experience of leading a high performing Business Development team in Financial Services on a remote basis.
• Proven ability to lead strategic discussions and to focus on the key challenges facing the business
• Strong negotiation and commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Proven track record of leading remote teams.

Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your unique experiences and perspectives could be a great addition to our team.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.