Head of Tied Distribution
Job in
Sandton, 2172, South Africa
Listing for:
The Recruitment Council
Full Time
position
Listed on 2025-12-13
Job specializations:
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Management
Business Management, Business Analyst, Corporate Strategy
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Business
Business Management, Business Analyst, Corporate Strategy
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Head of Tied Distribution |
Are you a seasoned professional in the financial industry with a proven track record of leading and developing high-performing teams? Our prestigious client, a prominent player in the financial services sector, is seeking a dynamic individual to join them as the Head of Tied Distribution. You will be responsible for the Advisory distribution channel strategy across the Group for Tied distribution.
Oversee strategies and ensure the implementation for significant growth in the business through building and implementing a digitally enabled Advisory model and digitally disrupting the market.
Responsibilities:
Leadership and Direction: Set and communicate the strategy for achieving the organisation’s mission, vision and values within a function, together with the broad actions needed to implement it; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve the organisation’s business goals. Oversee the implementation of the Advisory model operations across the Tied Distribution strategy and business plan;
explain the relationship to the broader organisation’s mission, vision and values; motivate people to commit to these and to doing extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.Digital Strategy/Transformational Projects Execution: Oversee the execution of digital road map for the Advisory model, establishing and managing business processes, programs, and projects, resource allocation, KPIs, and governance activities.Functional Strategy Formation & Implementation: Develop the strategy for the Tied Distribution function, anticipating mega-trends and complex challenges and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets long-term business needs.Distribution: Lead development and successful implementation and monitoring of the digitally enabled Advisory processes, procedures and models for intermediated sales operations.Sales (Manager): Oversee the implementation of the Advisory Sales strategy. Sell complex, often customised products and services to significant customers and/or manage a significant sales department.Business Planning: Lead the development and ensure alignment of annual and longer-term business plans for the function, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes (i.e. revenues or other key performance indicators) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and develop business cases for key strategic objectives, ensuring cross-functional integration.Stakeholder Engagement (Internal and External): Identify and manage stakeholders up to C-suite level, finding out their needs/ issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data: Ensure that the internal function and/or cross-functional, customer account team maintains high-quality customer information; monitor and review information quality to ensure that it is fit for purpose. Provide user input to the development or improvement of the customer relationship management system to ensure that it meets immediate and longer-term business needs.Sell Customer Propositions: Lead a cross-functional internal team to configure a complex tailored or bespoke product and services solution and associated contractual terms that meet the customer’s mid- to long-term needs at key operating unit level. Negotiate agreement with the customer and internally with commercial colleagues to ensure that customer requirements are met at an acceptable level of profitability and cash flow.
OR Review and authorise complex sales proposals from team members that deviate from standard terms.Organisational Capability Building: Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritise development activities. Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organisation through mentoring and other informal methods.Compliance: Help develop compliance policies for an area of the organisation, while also developing underlying procedures and monitoring their implementation.Performance Management: Manage and report on business performance; hold direct reports accountable for achievement of business plans, and take corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of business objectives, balancing the need to deliver short term business objectives with the longer term delivery of stakeholder value.Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing…
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