Sales Planning Manager

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Job Title: Sales Planning Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 7th October 2024

Do you have experience in Events and are looking to take that next step?

Royal London have exciting new opportunities for Sales Planning Managers to join the team and play a pivotal role in gaining insight into the business and ultimately create their own personal brand to help foster strong stakeholder relationships and drive the distribution team forward.

About the role

• Own and drive regular maintenance and content update developments across the Distribution SharePoint sites.
• Support compliance with group policies across distribution function.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the Distribution function and propositional teams to manage e.g. a structured program of Lunch and Learns, content for quarterly sessions etc.
• Co-ordinate the key stakeholders, including relationship managers, compliance, legal and marketing, to ensure our commercial agreements with major intermediary distributors are compliant and deliver value to the business.
• Support governance of the Distribution Incentive Plan, ensuring records are appropriately maintained and setting up required governance sessions.

About you

• Excellent grasp of complete Microsoft suite and capabilities (inc Excel, Word, PPT, SharePoint, Forms)
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Knowledge of sales and distribution processes as well as the adviser landscape
• Excellent organisation and planning skills with the ability to prioritise and juggle multiple tasks.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Understanding of compliance / regulatory environment

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.