Growth Manager – Wealth Products at U-Connect Human Resources Consulting

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate a strong pipeline of leads through existing networks and relationships in credit, investment, savings, pension, and insurance industries to build new business
• Identify business opportunities from business intelligence and market knowledge.
• Create proposals and make presentations to clients
• Follow business processes and make recommendations for improvement
• Work with other departments to deliver all service level commitments to clients
• Prepare reports on all origination activities for internal and external clients
• Keep abreast of internal operational changes; identify problems and proffer solutions
• Implement any approved system/process changes
• Test and assess the effectiveness of system/process changes
• Analyse and report on data generated from BI software to inform recommendation for new products and services
• Evaluate organisational costs and suggest ways to improve operational efficiency
• Recommend, implement, and monitor the performance of business intelligence tools

Key Skills, Attributes & Experience:

• MBA or Masters in Accounting, Finance or similar discipline
• Proven experience in the financial services and/or insurance sector, particularly in Savings and Investment products, with a background in Asset Management and investments, is required Proven experience as an Asset Manager
• Experience implementing sales strategies for B2B and B2C
• Sales skills (cold calling, sales meetings, price and terms negotiations, problem management, account management, account growth etc.)
• Ability to work in a team or stand-alone plus a determination and motivation to exceed targets.
• Ability to influence at all levels.