Sales Director - Owl Financial

Reporting to the Openwork Managing Director, the Owl Sales Director's core purpose is to achieve profitable growth for the business. You'll take ownership of the promotion of the Owl proposition, ensuring that our Advisers are given the necessary support to grow and develop in order that they achieve their business goals.
Accountable for:

• Delivering a high-performance culture within the Owl channel, promoting product proposition and services in line with corporate plan and with adherence to regulatory standards/requirements.


• Developing annual productivity plans by implementing marketing strategies, analysing trends and results.


• Forecasting and developing annual targets; projecting expected volumes and profit for existing and new products.


• Providing input to the strategic direction for Owl distribution linked to Group strategy.


• Developing plans for future emerging talent for broader succession pipelines


• Actively participating as an SMT member and sits on appropriate Boards & Committees, supporting the Openwork MD with discharging SMF responsibilities.


• Management and talent development of all direct reports.


• Ensuring functional areas deliver objectives which are aligned with short, medium and long term corporate strategic goals.
  
  Understanding and passion for working amongst diverse communities


• Experience of working with protection products


• Substantial distribution and operational management experience in relevant product markets.


• Established experience of operating at Board and Board Committee level.


• Able to provide strong functional leadership across all functional teams.


• Strong understanding of regulatory policy and priorities, Conduct Risk and The Consumer Duty principles.


• Understands FCA guidelines and focus at any time


• Strategic vision combined with solid operational skills.


• Strong ability to lead and implement change, displaying both persistence and resilience.


• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiating competence.
  
  At Owl Financial, we firmly believe in the value of personalised advice. Owl Advisers are trained to a high standard and the quality of the advice we provide is constantly assessed. We work within strict guidelines to ensure that the advice we give and the products we recommend are appropriate for your needs.

We're a dynamic, fast-paced and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We're also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.

On top of offering a modern workplace with bags of development opportunities, we also offer a highly attractive benefits package to reward you for your hard work. This includes a competitive base salary, an industry-leading annual bonus, enhanced pension, critical illness cover, income protection and a range of other flexible benefits.


• Salary - up to £160,000


• Bonus - 30% on target


• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%


• Critical illness cover


• Income protection - 1x salary


• Death in service - 4x salary


• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days


• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.