Business Development Consultant

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description

Focused on coaching for growth, consulting with experienced advisors, sales driven, strategic mindset, strong knowledge of financial services and products and relationship focused. If this feels well aligned to who you are and areas you want to focus on, we have the right opportunity for you. Join the Sun Life District team and contribute to making a positive difference for Canadians and advisors.

What will you do?

• Source new and experienced candidates with established practices, for the Sun Life advisor role or to join an advisor team, through community contacts and other sources of referrals.
• Maintain regular contact with referral sources, including advisors, centres of influence and other community partners.
• Actively oversee the successful execution of a new advisors’ onboarding plan, in collaboration with the District team.
• Partner with the Recruiting Consultant, DM and Business Development Partner to participate at recruiting events, such as career fairs.
• Support experienced advisors to deliver on holistic business results by providing coaching, training and consulting on market identification, sales planning and joint field work.
• Guide and direct advisors to the partners and resources at head office that support their business practice, specialized training and processes.
• Coach and support experienced Advisors to deliver on business results; support the advisors in creating business plans, proposals, business solutions and implementation plans to achieve business results.
• Provide coaching and training to build skills and knowledge and address gaps, to help advisors meet their plans / target and to align with compliance and other requirements.
• Run business assessments to identify opportunities and support advisors to improve business performance and Client engagement.
• Lead adoption of new business process changes, supporting advisors through implementation.
• Monitor and manage performance of experienced advisors and ensure alignment to business targets.
• Deliver business results consistent with District and regional targets (sales growth, productivity, client engagement).
• Oversee required measures to support the District Manager in ensuring compliant operations for experienced advisors.
• Provide oversight and support for corrective action of market conduct audit.
• Work closely with the BDP and advisors transitioning from developing advisor to other advisor segments with emphasis on practice management, coaching including business planning, effective joint field work, best practices, digital tool adoption and other methods to grow their practice.
• Partner with BDP to develop the skills and competencies of Graduate advisors, identify potential candidates for Associate Advisors or Alliance opportunities.
• Achieve key metrics related to recruiting and production.

Required skills : What do you need to succeed?

Qualification & Educational Requirements

Assets

What’s in it for you?

Salary Range

80,000 – 128,000

EEO Statement

We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Contact

thebrightside@sunlife.com

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