At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.
Sandringham Adviser Development & Recruitment Manager
12 month fixed-term contract
Part time (28 hours p/w)
Sandringham Financial Partners is an award winning independent financial planning businesses, committed to helping advisers build successful, client-focused careers whilst delivering exceptional outcomes for clients. We provide advisers with the freedom to operate their businesses with confidence, supported by a robust regulatory framework, technology, expert operational support, and access to a collaborative professional community.
The Adviser Development & Recruitment Manager plays a critical role in driving our growth strategy, identifying and attracting experienced, high-calibre financial advisers who align with our values and are looking for a partner that can support and accelerate their future success.
Purpose
The Adviser Development & Recruitment Manager will lead adviser retention, acquisition and partnership growth across Sandringham. This role is responsible for delivering sustainable adviser growth by identifying, attracting and onboarding high-quality advisers and firms, while strengthening engagement with existing partners.
Key Deliverables:
- Growth in adviser numbers and quality of recruits
- Strong retention of existing advisers and firms
Key Accountabilities:
- Develop and execute adviser recruitment strategy aligned to growth objectives
- Build and maintain senior relationships with advisers, firms and industry influencers
- Present Sandringham and M&G Advice propositions to prospective firms and advisers
- Lead recruitment pipelines from prospecting through due diligence and onboarding
- Partner with Compliance, Operations, Technology and Adviser Services teams
- Represent the business at conferences, events and networking activities
- Maintain accurate MI, forecasting and CRM reporting
Key Skills & Experience:
Personal Attributes
- Commercial mindset with ability to identify and develop growth opportunities
- Strong relationship builder who can positively influence
- Works collaboratively to develop solutions that balance different stakeholders
- Resilient and self-motivated
- Strong judgement and integrity
Experience & Knowledge
- Experience within financial services recruitment, business development or adviser relationship management
- Demonstrable success recruiting advisory firms and individual advisers
- Excellent stakeholder management and presentation skills
- Experience using Microsoft 365
- Ability to work autonomously while influencing senior stakeholders
Qualifications (Desirable)
- Relevant financial services qualifications (e.g. FPC, AFPC, ACII)
Location: UK Flexible
Work Level: Manager / Expert
Recruiter: Amy Curtis
What we offer:
We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:
- A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
- Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
- Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
- Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
- Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.
To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G
At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.
M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leaderunder the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com
