Head of Region, Octopus Investments
Offers bonus and share incentive plan
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3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Ethical Investments
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Ethical Investments
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Offers bonus and share incentive plan
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Octopus Group is a B Corp whose mission is to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will help change the world.
Role
Who you are
- Drive, ambition, the ability to motivate others and excellent communication skills will be required
- ✔️ A proven track record in sales and a hunger to deliver successful commercial outcomes for the team and wider business
- ✔️ Experience in managing and motivating at individual and team level
- ✔️Demonstrable ability to develop strategies and work cross-functionally to further team objectives
- ✔️ An obsession for brilliant customer experience
- ✔️ Lead by examples and showcase Octopus values and behaviours
- ✔️ A strong grounding in financial services
What the job involves
- This is an opportunity for an experienced and ambitious individual to lead an area comprising of multiple regions and direct reports, developing the team, maximising inflows and delivering outstanding customer outcomes
- This role will allow you to think creatively and strategically, Octopus is entrepreneurial in spirit, and you’ll be given the autonomy to have a real impact through your work
- The role would suit an individual who is looking to take on more responsibility and work cohesively with other Regional Heads to drive the retail sales and customer team to success, expressing a desire to see others achieve alongside them
- The Sales & Customer team is around 100 strong and growing, it’s an integral part of the business as it raises vast amounts of capital that allow Octopus Investments to be active in various other markets such as Venture Capitalism and Real Estate
- Your area will consist of internal BDMs, external BDMs and account managers, covering a range of underlying regions all working towards a combined growth target to maximise its potential revenue
- You’ll lead and inspire a talented sales team to deliver on regional sales and growth targets
- You’ll develop and execute the regional distribution and client management strategy, utilising our data insights team, retail marketing team and key partnerships team to strategize and maximise sales from our partner advisers
- You’ll be customer obsessed, managing the sales and account management teams to ensure our views are aligned with what is best for the customer and always acting in good faith
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus is a group of companies investing in innovative ideas from various industries. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.
In their financial services business, they care as much about the impact their investments have, as they do about the returns that they generate for their investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 6 countries.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
43% female employees
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Flexible working
"Your job and your life can be organised flexibly. I do school runs and finish early to get family time and catch up in evenings on missed time. "
Company benefits
- Critical Illness Cover & Death In Service
- Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus
- Share Incentive Plan
- Hybrid Working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
- Childcare Vouchers
- Sick pay
- 'Take what you need' Annual leave
- £3000 Bike to Work Scheme
- Employee Discount Portal
- Professional Development & Training
- Monthly 'Drink Up'
- The Greatest Christmas Party Ever
Company values
- Be Helpful: We like people who behave like it’s always day one and who remember that without our customers there is no business.
- Be Straightforward: We like people who have opinions and who express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand
- Be Bold: We like people who make decisions quickly and who are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Simon Rogerson
(CEO)Previously worked at Octopus Investments for 20 years, first as Chief Executive and co-founder for 19 years and then as Executive Chairman for 1 year.
Chris Hulatt
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Manager at Mercury Asset Management for 2 years and Non Executive Director at ClearlySo for 4 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Investments
Riean Stewart (Portfolio Talent Associate)
- 50/50 gender split across all senior leadership roles (currently 43% female / 57% male)
- 15% of managerial roles and above will be held by people from an ethnic background (Currently 8%)
- We partner with Black Young Professionals network, Investment 2020, Work180, Women in Finance, 10,000 Black Interns and more to promote D&I at Octopus and in the Investments industry
- We host events aimed at women in the financial services industry and how we can attract & support people in this space
- We host internal D&I events on how to support ethnic backgrounds in the workplace, Neurodiversity and more!
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