Senior Business Development Manager

The Senior Business Development Manager will be responsible for establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with clients, ensuring they view IGP as a professional, knowledgeable, and strong service provider. This role involves meeting sales goals, visiting clients and key advisors, coaching/mentoring junior colleagues, and participating in various meetings and training sessions (lifelong learning).

Position Responsibilities:

• Drive UK/Ireland productivity by creating pipelines and closing on new business deals with a focus on all 3 product lines; Pooling, Reinsurance to Captives and Global Underwriting.

• Creating and maintaining long-term working relationships with clients and advisors to ensure they view IGP as the number one Employee Benefits Network for Multinational Corporations of any size.

• Meet with clients, prospects, and advisors in-person, to build and maintain a strong professional network.

• Meet challenging yet achievable sales and conservation goals as set by management.

• Conduct enhanced/refresher workshops of products and services to advisor community, as well as the wider HR/Finance/Risk community.

• Pro-Actively collaborate with IGP Network Partners to ensure a drive of new business and conservation of the existing business.

• Attending/Speaking at IGP and industry events.

• Actively contributing and participating in a wide variety of internal projects across the different departments.

• Excel at Global RFP’s and subsequent finalist presentations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree majoring in Marketing, Finance, Business, Insurance or HR.

• Minimum 5 years sales and client relationship management experience in Employee Benefits.

• Dynamic personality with good ability to interact with different people and level.

• Systematic and structured to understand systems and processes.

• Fluent in English, spoken and written.

• Proven professional network in the Employee Benefits industry.

• Being able to work both independently and in a wider team (cross-departmental)

• Having experience and a strategic vision on the Global Employee Benefits market and IGP’s role in this.

• Having prior knowledge of Pooling, Reinsurance to Captives and Global Underwriting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.

• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.

• You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.

• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.

• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.

• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want. 

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words. 

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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