Head of Partnership Services

7 months ago


Swindon, United Kingdom Openwork Full time

**The opportunity**:
As Head of Partnership Services, you'll be accountable for driving first class delivery and outstanding performance within the Partnership Services function (which conducts regulated advice). Ensuring effective implementation of the Partnership Services strategy that enables The Openwork Partnership to meet its ambitions and create great customer outcomes.

You'll be passionate about leadership, building positive relationships and creating a best practice environment.

This is a hybrid role with 2/3 days per week in Swindon.

**The benefits**:

- Salary - up to £100,000
- Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 17.5%
- Car allowance - £5,486
- Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection - 1x salary
- Death in service - 4x salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
- A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

**Key accountabilities**:

- Driving outstanding performance within the Partnership Services team, promoting and educating existing products and proposition and supporting new services and initiatives
- Building and deploying a successful Partnership Services function ensuring a positive and increasing P&L by implementing marketing strategies, analysing trends and creating results.
- Developing targets and shaping the function to support the growing and changing needs of the network.
- Utilising and leveraging internal data and external insight ensuring the Team operate with skill and knowledge, keeping current with changing trends, economic indicators, and technology.
- Deputise for Partnership Director where required, including sitting on appropriate internal committees
- Management and talent development of all direct reports, bringing the team on the journey with you.
- Ensure sufficient, robust controls and processes are in place to deliver functional activities in line with regulatory, legal and corporate requirements
Maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
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**What will you need to succeed?**:

- Substantial distribution and operational management experience across multiple FS product sectors
- Experience of working with multiple senior stakeholders
- Deep understanding of business development best practice and advice/sales models
- Able to provide strong functional leadership
- Strong understanding of regulatory policy and priorities, Conduct Risk and TCF
- Acts as a role model for Openwork leadership behaviours
- Familiarity with adviser business models and knowledge of sales models beyond the FS market
- Knowledge of competitor and provider propositions and able to represent the Company as a market leading alternative
- Knowledge of the methods used to promote the brand, the network and its products
- Experience in leading business development / sales teams on a regional or nationwide basis
- Bring enthusiasm to lead and implement change, displaying both persistence and resilience
- Strong understanding of regulatory policy and priorities, and experience in oversight of regulated activities.
- Credibility and stature to operate at all levels in the business and externally
- Acts with integrity, responsibility and accountability always

**Why us?**: We're a dynamic, fast-paced and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.

On top of offering a modern workplace with bags of development opportunities, we also offer a highly attractive benefits package to reward you for your hard work. This includes a competitive base salary, an industry-leading annual bonus, enhanced pension, critical illness cover, income protection and a range of other flexible benefits.



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