With over five million customers, and having celebrated our 200th anniversary in 2015, Scottish Widows (SW)is one of the UK's most trusted Life, Pensions and Investments providers. We want to ensure this success continues and grows, and in Insurance and Wealth we contribute to this success by providing critical services to our customers and supporting them with their insurance needs, whilst ensuring the customer is at the heart of our business. Our acquisition of Embark means that we'll have a wider range of products to work with Intermediaries on. The Platform Adoption team are integral to the success of our insurance strategy to 'protect today and secure tomorrow'. Our colleagues represent and promote the SW propositions across the financial services industry, engaging with Advisers, Paraplanners and Administration staff to ensure the smooth transition to the SW Platform. The core purpose of this exciting new role is to lead a team of seven Platform Adoption Consultants who represent the Service and implementation proposition with Distributors through securing and leading implementation adoption of our Retail Platform and assisting our distribution team meet sales targets. You'll be accountable for managing and driving targeted new business activity, supporting the development of our colleagues and working with other parts of the Group, to grow our funds under management and provide leadership to specialist support to deliver our workplace strategy. What you'll be doing:
* Lead, Supervise and drive platform adoption through the platform consultants
* In consultation with the Intermediary Sales team, take ownership of creating and delivering an ongoing engagement programme for Platform adoption consultants in a way that supports the workplace growth ambitions of the business.
* Provide technical and signposting support to the wider Distribution team as they seek to develop their knowledge and skill base.
* Facilitate the sharing of best practise and collaborate closely with specialist and generalist management to ensure key messages are optimally delivered.
* Provide a pivot point between the Distribution, Proposition and Marketing teams to ensure there is consistency and coherence of understanding around propositional changes and our development priorities.
* Support key events and meetings and be available to support Platform Adoption Consultants.
* Help with the onboarding of key advisers and partners, ensuring full delivery of the On Boarding training matrix.
Detailed knowledge of the Intermediary market including regulatory, technical and legislative issues, the competitor landscape and developments therein and be able to articulate SW's strengths versus competitors.
* Experienced in consultative selling and the ability to mentor this methodology.
* Experience of leading people handling with intermediary relationships.
* Ability to craft, implement and deliver an effective training programme and supervise its success in line with agreed measures set by senior management.
* Strong leadership skills. Experience of mentoring and developing your platform adoption consultant team.
* Strong analytical skills proven through the ability to review a range of information and metrics and identify and prioritise appropriate actions
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, 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