Business Development Consultant

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Key Responsibilities

Develop trusted relationships with adviser firms through proactive telephone engagement, targeted account activity and relevant, professional conversations. Identify,

Requirements Summary

Experience working with financial advisers or intermediary firms. Strong communication, relationship management and influencing skills, with the confidence to initiate purposeful conversations.

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Job Description

The Sales function drives new business and revenue by helping customers find products, solutions and services that meet their needs. Within Aberdeen Adviser, the Intermediary area works through non-affiliated and third-party intermediaries who support individual investors. The Adviser Sales team combines focused account management, collaborative selling and insight-led campaigns. By developing productive adviser relationships and connecting firms with relevant propositions, the team helps enable our clients to be better investors.

About the Role

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As a Business Development Consultant, you will identify, develop and progress new business opportunities through proactive adviser engagement, targeted business development and strategic sales campaigns. Working in a team of three, you will help manage relationships and sales opportunities across 9,500 unaligned accounts, while supporting growth of the Managed Portfolio Service (MPS).

This Professional-level role offers the opportunity to build commercial expertise, strengthen adviser relationships and contribute directly to pipeline growth and quality referrals. Success will combine meaningful activity, opportunity progression, accurate CRM records and consistently high regulatory and professional standards. It is an opportunity to invest in your tomorrow through learning, collaboration and visible commercial impact.

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What We Offer

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There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.