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Sales Enablement Consultant

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abrdn logoAbrdn · Edinburgh, UK
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LeadershipSalesforce
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About the role

The purpose of the Sales Enablement team is to provide responsive administrative support that creates the capacity within sales allowing team to focus on driving forward critical growth opportunities. The internal sales desk will support a broad range of activities including securing internal resource, client meeting preparation and follow up, and pro-active client engagement. The team will also focus on embedding best practice across sales and within our client's businesses to prevent more efficient ways of working and reduce duplication. The function will work across the Adviser business to ensure an exceptional client experience is delivered. As part of that the team will always look for better ways of working using insight to influence positive changes in our client experience.

Responsibilities

  • Support sales colleagues by booking in client meetings and securing internal delegates to attend meetings,
  • Pull together client meeting agendas and actions for use in growth discussions held by sales,
  • Create and keep up to date pitch packs ready for sales to use to drive growth opportunities
  • Draft and manage commercial business cases on behalf of sales,
  • Analyse and pull trading data to drive sales conversation and meetings,
  • Pro-active client engagement supporting sales messages on propositional launches, campaigns, etc.
  • Promotion and follow up of Aberdeen events including technical events programme,
  • Help sales maintain account intelligence pages on salesforce to ensure quality insight held on clients,
  • Helping with internal resourcing to secure PC, RM or specialist support,
  • Ensuring work with Service Enablement team to progress any complex queries,
  • Work with RM's and PC's to ensure consistency of message to clients.
  • About the Candidate:
  • Experience in sales, sales support or a related role.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and support sales leadership
  • Experience working with data or information to support decisions, such as reporting, analysis or insight gathering
  • Confidence communicating with a range of stakeholders, including more senior colleagues

Benefits

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.Our businessEnabling 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 .An inclusive way of workingWhatever 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 flexiHealth insuranceFlexible schedulePerformance bonus

Additional Information

Job Description At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent. Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent. Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs: interactive investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them. Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers. Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.


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