Head of Account Management - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Morningstar

Morningstar

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role:

Your role will incorporate building meaningful, trust-based, consultative relationships with existing and prospective clients. You will also be required to provide on-going relationship management for our existing clients.

You will conduct regular meetings with clients both face-to-face and remotely in order to increase awareness of the business, its products and services and to develop cross-selling opportunities.

In addition to your sales responsibilities, you will oversee the UK account management function.

The Account Managers are key part of the sales team, and you will work with them to ensure that they achieve their objectives.

They will report into you and will require day to day support, coaching and mentoring plus regular performance reviews to assess progress and set goals/learning objectives.

This is a growing function within the business so you will be required to help build the team with the Head of Distribution not only from a resource perspective but also establishing them as a consistent and evolving function within the sales team.

Job responsibilities:

Support the business in planning and delivering on targets
Work with financial advisers to understand their business model, current client base, approach to client segmentation, risk profiling and CRM system requirements
Grow the level of funds under management by developing new and existing relationships
Manage the Account Managers as a team including headcount resource and assist with performance management with the Head of Distribution
Work with the Account Managers to plan and execute their strategies to ensure targets are achieved and their approach is consistent with the requirements of the business
Schedule, prepare and deliver training sessions with intermediary clients
Ensure delivery of proposals and marketing documents to prospective clients
Monitor and understand the position of our competitors and trends of the market to help to strategically develop our business
Build trusted and credible relationships with other teams within the business to ensure we exceed client expectations
Ensuring the integrity and culture of our firm by adhering to risk and compliance policies
Attendance at sales meetings
Support and develop the account management team
Provide regular updates to the Head of Distribution on the performance of the account management team and suggest improvements where needed.

Qualifications:

10 years + financial services experience.

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If you received and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investment_s be disclosed _confidentially_ _to our_ Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker._

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week.

While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days each week.

A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.