New Business Manager Queensland

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The Opportunity: We have a new opening for an experienced Senior Business Development Manager to serve financial advice businesses in Queensland. This is a new exciting role brought about by our vision and strategic direction to be a trusted business partner to advisers to help them serve more clients, better. The successful candidate will be an ambitious, experienced self-starter with an evidenced track record of building strategic relationships to a panel of financial advisers to grow revenue. They will play a crucial role as the strategic lead to our financial advisory accounts in Queensland. By identifying the needs of these advice practices across all stakeholders, they will follow a solutions-based approach to business development. They will then strategically leverage Morningstar's intellectual capital to provide managed portfolio solutions, behavioural coaching and practice optimisation support services to help the financial advisers transform and grow their businesses.
Day to day could see you being involved in the following:

• Strategically lead the delivery of ongoing service to our financial advisory accounts in Queensland who strategically partner with Morningstar to implement goals-based investment solutions so that you can meet and exceed AUM netflow goals.
• Work alongside advisers, business owners and their operational teams to remove barriers preventing their practice from achieving their desired business goals to transition their business to Morningstar.
• You will collect and analyse data pertinent to these advice businesses through a high level of engagement to determine the problems to solve. Following a solutions-based approach to business development, you will solve these problems to grow AUM.
• You will work collaboratively to build strong internal relationships with the investment, marketing and practice optimisation specialists to drive the execution of your business plan for each financial advisory account to achieve your AUM goals.
• You will act as the voice of the adviser as we continue to enhance our pillars of investment, behavioural coaching and practice optimisation services. Including building collateral to ensure adviser success and reduce friction in the advice workflow.
• Prepare and present proposals to gain strategic buy in from all stakeholders in the advice business that you serve in Queensland to help them optimise their practice. Including end client investment strategy comparison analysis.
• Demonstrate completion of the agreed ongoing service requirements in Salesforce in a timely and accurate manner for the advice businesses you serve in Queensland.
• Recruit new advisers in in Queensland by prospecting, securing and winning their commitment to entrust their clients' asset to managed by Morningstar.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders in the advice businesses partnering with Morningstar by delivering excellent service to all stakeholders to achieve their strategic goals and grow AUM.
• Develop and implement proactive quarterly objectives and key results and annual business development plans from a bottom up perspective for each advice business in you serve in Queensland to achieve your AUM goal.
• Meet and demonstrate required business development metrics such as calls, meetings, webinars, and targeted contacts to your panel of key financial advisory accounts in Queensland.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

We're interested in hearing from people who have

• A bachelor's degree.
• Significant demonstrated experience in a business development role that recruits and serves financial advisory accounts to grow revenue.
• An evidenced track record of solution selling as the trusted business partner to financial advisers, successfully converting these relationships to revenue.
• Strong work ethic to deliver client centric service and an existing professional reputation with financial advisers in the industry.
• Results-driven with excellent attention to detail, including an ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines and service standards to financial advisers.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and in a collaborative team environment to achieve goals.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills.
• Strong understanding of financial advice workflow, practice management and the current financial advice landscape.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of how to improve efficiencies and processes in advice businesses. Including the ability to listen effectively, present a compelling solution to advice business stakeholder needs and objections.
• RG146 Certification.

If you meet all or some of the qualifications, we'd still love to hear from you.
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Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now.
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