Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager (Insurance Services) South UK - Field Based Role Permanent £40,600 - £50,800 + commission + fantastic benefits Full time (37.5 hours per week) Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We always go the extra mile by giving our customers fast access to treatment and helping them get the specialist support they need. At Bupa, you’ll be a part of a fun, social environment as well as making a huge difference for our customers. Expect solid benefits and opportunities to grow. Role Overview With the customer experience at the heart of decisions, this role is accountable for achieving year on year business and profit growth through optimisation, innovation, strategic leadership and business change, to result in extraordinary performance and commercial success delivered within Bupa UK’s conduct and risk framework. What you’ll do:

• Manage a portfolio of intermediary accounts building commercially successful relationships with client contacts at all levels that deliver business targets
• Develop a clear and commercially focussed sales value pipeline focussing on growth in line with our strategy to deliver AOP and ensure profitable partnership relationships for UK Insurance
• Lead the development and implentation of short and long term (3- 5 year) plans with prioritised outcomes that meet customer needs and deliver engagement and loyalty
• Continually identify opportunities to strengthen and optimise processes aligned to the customer journey, working with the Marketing Communications, Digital Product and Proposition Team (PPD) and the Sales and Marketing Regulation and Compliance Teams
• Accountable for working with Sales and Marketing Regulation and Compliance Teams to identify, manage and mitigate conduct risks, financial crime risks, operational risks and data protection risks within B2B, Notifies risk management and other governance and oversight teams of issues and concerns. Embeds a culture of risk management within the team

What you’ll bring:

• Significant experience and proven ability to lead and manage Intermediary Sales
• Proven experience of building and maintaining strong, long lasting customer relationships and maximising business opportunities
• Strong determined communicator and negotiator with experience of senior level selling, persuasion and negotiation
• In depth knowledge of successfully increasing revenue, profits and growth within Intermediary markets regulated environment such as the healthcare market
• Track record of ‘treating customers fairly’ and delivering compliant sales within a regulatory environment is key

Why Bupa? We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Diversity and Inclusion Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. Whether you’ve found your feet or are discovering a new path. Welcome to a place that celebrates you. This isn’t where you've been. This is where you're going. This is what we have belief in. Time Type: Full time