Manager, Client Relationship Executive Financial Services, Clients & Markets

As a Client Relationship Executive, you will play a central and important role within the account team, acting as the focal point for communications and activity. These are relationship focused roles not sales and project delivery roles. Your responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Relationship Management: Leveraging stakeholder relationships to drive action and ensure seamless communication across the account. Our CREs are expected to build relationships both with the internal account team as well as with the client stakeholders
• Account Strategy & Growth: Collaborating with market-facing account teams to develop and execute strategic ambitions, understanding client needs, industry trends, and Deloitte's full suite of offerings.
• Insight & Thought Leadership: Identifying and sharing valuable insights, thought leadership, and points of view with the account team and key client stakeholders to nurture and develop relationships.
• Team Building: Leading knowledge sharing, coaching the account team on client challenges and trends, and bringing the account team together to best serve our clients. Helping the LCSP lead the account team.
• Financial & Market Oversight: Reviewing and sharing information on client buying behaviours and the competitor landscape, maintaining financial oversight and reporting, supporting annual business planning, and building knowledge of alternative pricing and delivery models.
• Risk & Compliance: Appropriately monitoring the risk profile on your aligned accounts and ensuring effective compliance with contractual obligations.
• Community & Voice of the Client: Sharing leading practices, enhancing the CRE community, and contributing to industry and sector development by sharing client insights. You will truly represent the 'voice of the client' in all that we do.
Connect to your skills and professional experience We are looking for candidates that are experienced in relationship/account management roles with a passion for client excellence and a curiosity for their clients' business.
• Senior Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to build trusted peer relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Confident in working with senior teams and collaborating effectively with busy professionals to deliver results, with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to make proactive decisions quickly.
• Client-Facing Experience: Demonstrable experience in a client-facing role.
• Project Management: Excellent project management skills with a strong track record of executing initiatives to tight deadlines.
• Financial Services Expertise: Experience working within or a strong understanding of the Financial Services industry, ideally within Insurance.
• Emotional Intelligence: Strong emotional intelligence, with demonstrable success in building rapport and credibility across all levels of seniority, adapting your style to create maximum impact.
• Quantitative Literacy: Confident with financial reporting, able to identify the 'story behind the numbers' to spot trends, themes, and recommend courses of action.
• Risk Management: Understanding of and ability to monitor risk effectively.
• Remote Team Collaboration: Experience working effectively within remote teams.
• CRM Proficiency: Experience using and promoting engagement in CRM systems to generate powerful, actionable intelligence for accounts.
• Presentation Skills: A confident and engaging presenter.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient with Microsoft Office tools.
Desirable Skills & Experience
• Experience of a client serving role; knowledge of client take on procedures/processes
• Experience of using Salesforce as a CRM tool
• Facilitation experience
• Professional services experience or knowledge of how a partnership structure operates
• Knowledge or experience of procurement, pricing and contracting
  Deloitte's Clients & Markets function is a 300-strong enabling team of varied disciplines, with a common purpose of enhancing our reputation, relationships and revenue in the market.
Our Client Relationship Programme comprises a number of ways in which we provide best in class account support for our priority clients. The Client Relationship Executive (CRE) plays a pivotal role, working alongside our Lead Client Service Partner (LCSP) to bring the best of Deloitte to our clients. Our CREs are aligned to the firm's priority accounts which are often sophisticated and complex in their nature, industry leading or well-known brand names, with a footprint in the UK or globally. CREs develop strength and depth in relationships, internally and externally, to leverage opportunities for growth. We are excited to offer an opportunity within our Financial Services team to work with some of our key Insurance clients. This role is open to candidates looking for an exciting, challenging, commercial, autonomous, relationship-focused, and client-centric role. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. 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