Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager – Funds | London & South East | Home-based

£70,000–£75,000 + bonus + benefits |

I'm working with an established UK investment and wealth management business looking to appoint an experienced Funds Business Development Manager into a newly created position within its intermediary distribution team.

This is a genuinely new-business-focused role, suited to someone who enjoys developing opportunities, opening new relationships and ultimately converting those relationships into meaningful fund flows.

Working on a home-based contract, you will have a particular focus on clients across London and the South East, alongside some wider UK travel.

The role

You will be responsible for developing new business opportunities across the UK intermediary market, building relationships with financial advisers, discretionary investment managers and key fund selectors.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Identifying, developing and closing new fund sales opportunities
• Building and maintaining a strong pipeline of prospective clients and opportunities
• Developing relationships with IFAs, DFMs, wealth managers and key intermediary accounts
• Delivering against new-business, sales and activity targets
• Presenting a broad range of investment funds and strategies to prospective clients
• Identifying opportunities to increase assets under management
• Working collaboratively with Investment Specialists, Fund Managers, Marketing and wider distribution colleagues
• Maintaining a strong understanding of the UK investment and intermediary landscape

About you

We're particularly interested in speaking with candidates who have:

• A minimum of around five years' experience within fund sales, asset management distribution or a closely related intermediary sales role
• A proven track record of winning new business and generating investment flows
• Strong existing knowledge of the UK financial adviser, wealth management and/or DFM market
• Experience selling investment funds or investment-management products
• A strong network of intermediary relationships
• Good technical knowledge of investments and the ability to articulate investment strategies credibly
• A proactive, commercially driven and self-sufficient approach to business development
• Strong presentation, relationship-building and negotiation skills

Previous experience covering London and the South East would be particularly advantageous.

This is an opportunity to join a growing investment business in a newly created role where you will have genuine ownership of new-business development and the opportunity to make a visible impact on the growth of the fund proposition.

For further information or a confidential conversation, please get in touch.