Senior Advisor, Business development and sales support

Desjardins • Montreal, QC

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a senior sales and business development support advisor, you help serve and maintain business relationships with members and clients. You help sell products and services through multiple distribution channels based on member/client needs and current strategies and practices. You lead and influence clients and practitioners on sales and service development projects, initiatives and activities that significantly impact the entire organization. You take a strategic mindset to boost the organization’s development and profitability while retaining clients and stakeholders and ensuring their satisfaction. You draw on your networking skills and interpersonal savvy to develop and maintain business partnerships with prestige and key clients who have complex, diverse needs. Your highly complex, strategic initiatives require extensive knowledge of sales and service. You analyze highly complex problems and develop and implement personalized solutions tailored to client needs. You serve as expert for your unit, members and clients and represent your unit before senior management committees and decision-making bodies. You represent Desjardins and enter the organization into important agreements with clients. You have considerable leeway and many opportunities to establish and negotiate product and service terms. More specifically, you will be required to : Advise practitioners and help evaluate business and partnership opportunities to boost the organization’s development and profitability Help members, clients and stakeholders position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives See to member, client and stakeholder development, retention and satisfaction. Develop retention tactics and strategies Monitor the industry to understand and anticipate trends in your specialty area and make recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• A minimum of eight years of relevant experience
• Advanced proficiency in French
• Advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
• Action oriented
• Customer Focus
• Differences
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Networks
• Nimble learning
• Strategic mindset

Nice To Haves

• Other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered

Responsibilities

• Advise practitioners and help evaluate business and partnership opportunities to boost the organization’s development and profitability
• Help members, clients and stakeholders position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives
• See to member, client and stakeholder development, retention and satisfaction.
• Develop retention tactics and strategies
• Monitor the industry to understand and anticipate trends in your specialty area and make recommendations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
• Group insurance including telemedicine
• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior