Strategic Account Manager

LegalAndGeneral

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Legal & General, we’re committed to helping people achieve greater financial security and confidence in later life. We’re looking for a Strategic Account Manager to join our Retail Annuities team, where you’ll play a key role in growing and strengthening relationships with some of our most important strategic partners. This is an exciting opportunity to work across a dynamic intermediary market, developing long-term partnerships, identifying new opportunities, and driving sustainable business growth while delivering positive outcomes for customers.

Requirements

• Experience in a field-based business development, account management or strategic partnership role
• Strong understanding of the retirement market, intermediary sector, service providers and professional bodies
• Proven ability to develop commercially successful relationships and deliver sustainable business growth
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills with experience using management information and CRM systems to drive decision-making
• Commercially aware with the ability to identify opportunities and develop practical solutions
• Degree-level education, relevant industry experience, and ideally a Level 4 Diploma qualification or equivalent market knowledge

Responsibilities

• Driving growth across a portfolio of strategic partners, intermediary networks and service providers
• Developing and executing strategic account plans that identify opportunities, risks and success measures
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across assigned accounts and the wider industry
• Collaborating with the Intermediary Sales team to create and implement effective business and contact strategies
• Analysing Salesforce data, management information and performance dashboards to identify opportunities and measure success
• Partnering with colleagues across Marketing, Product, Operations, Risk, Asset Management and other business areas to achieve shared objectives
• Monitoring distribution activity to support Consumer Duty requirements and ensure alignment with target market strategies
• Delivering presentations, training sessions and business development initiatives to support partners and colleagues

Benefits

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online

What This Job Offers

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