Description:
Are you committed to bringing your best to life every day?
At MLC Life Insurance, we’re proud of our history of protecting Australians for over 135 years. We provide flexible, affordable, and innovative insurance products to almost 1 million Australians. We’re Australian-led and managed, and part of a global network through our partnership with one of the world’s leading life insurers, Nippon Life Insurance Group.
We’re driven by a powerful purpose, providing our customers and their families with a Promise for Life to be there when they need us most – and that’s a great purpose to bring us together at work every day.
We work hard to deliver a total customer experience that keeps our customers and partners at the forefront of all our decisions. We’re a values-driven business that strives for high performance and growth as we look towards the future.
The Role
We currently have an opportunity to join our Distribution team as a Business Development Manager in a permanent position. This opportunity is open to work from our Melbourne office in conjunction with our hybrid work from home options.
We are seeking a proactive individual to engage with adviser practices across various segments to maintain and grow our life insurance business through Active Advisers.
This role involves providing value to advisers through coaching, training, and support on our value proposition to achieve business objectives.
You will engage with advisers both face-to-face and virtually, as needed. Additionally, you will work to grow our market share in line with our Strategic Plan, ensuring alignment with our partner and customer engagement strategy to deliver critical business outcomes.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Identify client needs to retain and grow our business through advisers.
- Complete fact-finding for advisers, lead engagement plans, and involve senior management to strengthen relationships.
- Develop and execute business plans and campaigns for new business acquisition and retention.
- Coordinate day-to-day management and escalations with the Adviser Support Team.
- Provide coaching and support to help advisers understand and utilize the MLC Life Insurance proposition, including digital tools.
- Build and grow the profile of MLC Life Insurance within your network, follow a structured schedule, and drive cross-collaboration with other support functions.
- Deliver presentations, webinars, and represent MLC Life Insurance at industry events.
- Ensure regulatory and code compliance, maintain CPD requirements, and demonstrate professional and ethical behaviour.
About you
- Tertiary qualifications or Diploma of Financial Services desirable
- Minimum RG 146 compliance
- More than 5 years’ experience in financial services industry, preferably in Life Insurance, and strong understanding of advice process
- Excellent understanding of the financial services industry (including FASEA, LIF, FOFA, QAR), its history and its various participants e.g. licensees, regulators, associations
- This is an LOA holding role and as such must meet the qualification requirements to hold an LOA
- Higher education standards beyond a DFP such as ADF, bachelor’s degree in financial planning or other equivalent education is highly desirable
- Strong reasoning, problem-solving, ideation, project management, communication, influencing, and presentation skills (both face-to-face and virtual)
Bringing our best to life - why join us?
- We do work that makes a genuine difference to our customers, partners and community.
- We have a supportive, inclusive and flexible team culture, including hybrid working.
- We support your growth and development, and careers across our business units and teams that are as unique as our people.
- We reward and celebrate our successes, through our incentive and recognition programs.
- We offer tools, resources and benefits to support your wellbeing, including additional lifestyle leave and our Family Life hub.
- We connect and celebrate our diversity at work through our social committees and employee groups, and we contribute to our community with paid volunteer leave and through our sustainability commitments.
Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including Federal Police Checks, Employment checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and Bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates, however they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the position.