
Senior Portfolio Manager: Partnerships
- Parktown, Johannesburg
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop short- and long-term sales strategy to ensure attainment of company sales goals and profitability through the development and maintenance of effective partnerships with key decision makers in key partner organisations.
- Focus on value creation by selling by discussing business strategy and challenges with executive business leaders and delivering sales presentations.
- Set strategy for assigned partners/clients and direct execution in accordance with business objectives.
- Analyse business opportunities in terms of profitability to the company and benefit to each partner.
- Report on sales progress, pipeline reporting and attainment of goals; create accurate forecast for partners on a weekly and monthly basis via pipeline reports.
- Manage and develop partnerships proposals in line with RMA’s strategy and prioritise projects.
- Raise RML’s profile by cultivating and establishing productive and professional strategic relationships with key decision makers across current partners.
- Schedule regular visits to partners.
- Oversee existing relationships with senior leaders at key partner organizations and ensuring service levels and expectations are met.
- Help maintain and ensure partner renewal rates.
- Work with partners to identify strategic opportunities for future collaboration and growth.
- Measure effectiveness of customer success through metrics and data in order to Influence future lifetime value through higher customer satisfaction and overall health scores.
- Evaluate effectivity of partner relationships and engagements in delivering positive ROI.
- Develop strong relationships with partners maximise revenue streams and explore new initiatives that will drive revenue growth and offer RMA brand and media presence across key markets.
- Responsible for setting the direction for development of partnership relationships and helps negotiate partner agreements.
- Manages a team of specialists who enhance existing relationships, deliver campaigns and further penetrate existing accounts.
- Set staff and departmental performance targets and expectations, ensuring that the targets and expectations are achieved through regular monitoring and management
- Identify talent within the team and develop employees through effective staff management and assist them in meeting their training requirements and achieving their career aspirations
- Identify and recruit new staff members
- Ensure that financial resources are used efficiently and effectively.
- Manage and maintain relationships with RMA’s PR Agencies and work jointly with the agencies and business to write editorials, advertorials etc.
- NQF Level 7: Degree in Business Management
- Postgraduate Degree in Business Management (advantageous)
- RE5
- Key Individual (Advantageous)
- CFP (Advantageous)
- 5 – 8 years Financial Services Industry Knowledge
- 5 years Long term insurance experience
- 3 years management experience
- Experience in Insurance/Financial Services sector (preferred)
- Must have a proven sales track record
- Experience engaging with C-suite clients
- Proven experience in building and managing strategic partnerships with key account organisations at executive levels.
- Proven experience in driving sales revenue generation activities through effective partnership development and maintenance
- Financial Services Industry Knowledge
- Legal technical Knowledge (product related)
- New and Existing business processes
- Advanced understanding and application of the end-to-end Key Accounts Management function
- Experience managing budgets and sales teams
- Sound Long-term (Life) Insurance knowledge and experience
- Strong insurance product knowledge (group benefits)
- Proven track record on setting, achieving and exceeding sales targets
- Extensive experience developing partnerships with
- Ability to demonstrate past sales achievement in large and complex deals
- Financial Services Industry Knowledge
- Legal technical Knowledge (product related)
- Must have knowledge of employee benefits
- Strong relationship building skills and an entrepreneurial approach that leverages further opportunities
- NQF Level 7: Degree in Business Management
- Postgraduate Degree in Business Management (advantageous)
- RE5
- Key Individual (Advantageous)
- CFP (Advantageous)
- 5 – 8 years Financial Services Industry Knowledge
- 5 years Long term insurance experience
- 3 years management experience
- Experience in Insurance/Financial Services sector (preferred)
- Must have a proven sales track record
- Experience engaging with C-suite clients
- Proven experience in building and managing strategic partnerships with key account organisations at executive levels.
- Proven experience in driving sales revenue generation activities through effective partnership development and maintenance
- Financial Services Industry Knowledge
- Legal technical Knowledge (product related)
- New and Existing business processes
- Advanced understanding and application of the end-to-end Key Accounts Management function
- Experience managing budgets and sales teams
- Sound Long-term (Life) Insurance knowledge and experience
- Strong insurance product knowledge (group benefits)
- Proven track record on setting, achieving and exceeding sales targets
- Extensive experience developing partnerships with
- Ability to demonstrate past sales achievement in large and complex deals
- Financial Services Industry Knowledge
- Legal technical Knowledge (product related)
- Must have knowledge of employee benefits
- Strong relationship building skills and an entrepreneurial approach that leverages further opportunities