Advice Policy Divisional Director
St. James’s Place
Date: 15 hours ago
City: Cirencester, England
Contract type: Full time
Are you ready to chart your own career path? At SJP we need talented individuals like yourself to support our evolving culture. If you’re seeking an employer that is passionate about excellence, innovation and autonomy, SJP could be the place for you.
At a glance:
Location: Cirencester Office
Workplace Type:
Employment Type: Permanent
Grade: Divisional Director
What you’ll be doing:
This role is pivotal in leading, creating and developing a strategic vision for SJP’s approach to advice proposition and policy. You will be responsible for managing a team of specialists in this area of expertise whose shared objective is to implement and embed a robust advice framework.
It is fundamental that the team collaborates and engages widely across the SJP Group with key senior stakeholders to ensure that any policy and framework changes are embraced and are sustained for the future.
Key Responsibilities:
You will be an experienced Advice Policy professional with a strong background working within the Advice/Wealth Management sector. You will be responsible for raising the profile of Advice Policy and Development Services within SJP at a time of critical change for the organisation.
You will have strong all round communication skills, able to communicate technical subjects in a concise and clear manner to a wide audience. You will have excellent and pro-active problem solving ability, with strong analysis skills. You will have strong interpersonal skills, able to build networks effectively.
Desirable Skills/Experience
What's in it for you?
We reward you for the work you do, whether that’s through our discretionary annual bonus scheme that reflects both personal and company performance, competitive annual leave allowance (28 days plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), or online rewards platform with a variety of discounts.
We also have benefits to support whatever stage of life you are in, including:
Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.
What's next?
If you're excited about this role and believe you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking ‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.
As a business regulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with the conduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to an interview with SJP.
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At a glance:
Location: Cirencester Office
Workplace Type:
Employment Type: Permanent
Grade: Divisional Director
What you’ll be doing:
This role is pivotal in leading, creating and developing a strategic vision for SJP’s approach to advice proposition and policy. You will be responsible for managing a team of specialists in this area of expertise whose shared objective is to implement and embed a robust advice framework.
It is fundamental that the team collaborates and engages widely across the SJP Group with key senior stakeholders to ensure that any policy and framework changes are embraced and are sustained for the future.
Key Responsibilities:
- To lead and set the strategic development of St. James’s Place Advice Proposition and Advice Policy across the SJP Group
- To lead embedding and maintaining compliance with Consumer Duty
- A champion focused on making it easier to advise whilst ensuring clients understand the initial recommendations they receive and their ongoing advice.
- Champion for advice and advice policy throughout SJP community leading the creation and articulating our Advice Beliefs
- Create, propose and deliver new initiatives around the SJP's advice proposition and influence Directors and colleagues to support them
- Oversee the Root Cause Analysis programme, to ensure advice provided by the SJP's Partnership is within the principles of the Advice Framework, and challenge existing processes and procedure where relevant.
- Closely monitor marketplace trends and competitor activity to identify opportunities and threats to SJP and ensure SJP’s advice proposition remains competitive and continues to evolve as necessary.
You will be an experienced Advice Policy professional with a strong background working within the Advice/Wealth Management sector. You will be responsible for raising the profile of Advice Policy and Development Services within SJP at a time of critical change for the organisation.
You will have strong all round communication skills, able to communicate technical subjects in a concise and clear manner to a wide audience. You will have excellent and pro-active problem solving ability, with strong analysis skills. You will have strong interpersonal skills, able to build networks effectively.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Leadership and communication skills that inspire and engage the team in quality service delivery agenda
- Significant experience of developing advice-focused propositions.
- Having an appetite to develop a rigour around measurement and performance analysis that uncovers the opportunity to innovate and consistently improve our Advice Policy.
- Significant experience in financial advice and planning is required
- Qualified in Level 6 (or above) in Financial Planning
What's in it for you?
We reward you for the work you do, whether that’s through our discretionary annual bonus scheme that reflects both personal and company performance, competitive annual leave allowance (28 days plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), or online rewards platform with a variety of discounts.
We also have benefits to support whatever stage of life you are in, including:
- Competitive parental leave (28 weeks full pay)
- Private medical insurance (optional taxable benefit)
- 10% non-contributory pension (increasing with length of service)
Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.
What's next?
If you're excited about this role and believe you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking ‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.
As a business regulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with the conduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to an interview with SJP.
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