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This a great opportunity if you love to engage with people, have confidence to promote a great career opportunity, and have the ability to network. Knowledge of financial services and recruitment is preferred.
There will be individual and team objectives to meet, but collective collaboration will be key to success. There will be opportunities to develop your own career, whilst maintaining a good work life balance, travel will be required but this position will be home based.
Academy Director, Chris Jones
About The Role
Level: 4
Department: The Quilter Academy, National Advice Business
Location: England – Home Worker with travel
Contract type: Permanent, Full -Time
The key to your success in this role will be the ability to promote and present the opportunity to join Quilter as a Financial Adviser, recruits will come from all backgrounds and may not previously have worked in financial services.
This is a career change” opportunity, and you will be required to develop relationships with potential new candidates, to host seminars and webinars to promote this fantastic opportunity.
Once interest has been gained you will be responsible for leading the selection process, that will identify if a candidate has the right characteristics, aptitude, attitude, and self-determination to pursue a new career as a Financial Adviser, which will include completing a Level 4 Diploma in financial planning. You will be accountable for identifying, contacting, interviewing, assessing, attracting, and selecting appropriate prospective candidates.
You will ensure that good customer outcomes are central to decision-making and lead on all aspects of decision-making on quality and risks associated with prospective candidates.
Great at maintaining strong working relationships you will be accountable for building, managing and maintaining relationships with new candidates enrolled into the Academy. Once selected you will be their key point of contact for a minimum period of 6 months, as they progress through training. Being able to engage, encourage and support individuals through a significant change will be central to your success.
You’ll develop a strong sense of team within the Quilter Academy and actively look for opportunities for cross collaboration within teams.
Support a culture of service excellence and continuous improvement, placing the customer experience front and centre. You will be expected to uphold our client centric and professional ethos at all times.
You will build strong relationships across the other areas of the business, such as Quilter Cheviot, UK Platform and Operations, identifying opportunities to leverage knowledge, skills and experience for customer and commercial benefit.
You will be required to ensure timely reporting, demonstrating progress against your agreed objectives. You may be asked to undertake tasks outside of the above, subject to the needs of the Academy or wider Quilter leadership as may be deemed necessary.
About You
Applications from people with diverse backgrounds enables our inclusive organisation to thrive. If you feel you don’t match our job description exactly, why not take a chance on yourself and apply? You could be exactly what this role needs.
Its all about you”, as an Academy Manager you will be a key element in an individual’s decision to join the Quilter Academy, your skill in presenting the opportunity to third parties and potential candidates will drive success. Understanding the important life changing decision people are about to make and ensuring they have a deep understanding of the opportunity and challenges they will face is of paramount importance.
- You should have had experience managing a team in a controlled environment.
- The ability to encourage and support people.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present.
- Experience working in financial services.
- Experience in recruitment preferred.
- Good computer skills and ability to use excel and power point.
Our purpose is to help the generations today and tomorrow to prosper. That means we must guide people through the complexity of planning for their future, with the right financial advice and investment solutions, so that they can have more secure financial futures.
In this ever-changing world, we see that our role in society has never been more meaningful, and we are committed to using our expertise and care to guide our customers through these challenging and unprecedented times.
Our impressive talents and capabilities set us apart, but our unwavering commitment to our customers is what defines us. We truly believe that we have all the ingredients to be the very best in our industry, and we want great people with the care and creativity that we need, to help us get there.
We are passionate about building an inclusive culture where everyone’s contribution is valued, and our people can thrive. No matter what your role is or where you sit, your voice will matter. We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learning more about joining us.
Core Benefits
Holiday: 26 days
Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in our incentive scheme, based on the company’s performance and their contribution to it
Pension Scheme: 10% non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions
Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard, cover can be increased at your own cost
Life Assurance: 4x your salary, cover can be increased at your own cost
Income Protection: 75% of salary payable after 26 weeks of absence
In addition to our core benefits we offer a range of flexible benefits that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.
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