Sales Manager: SanlamConnect: Cape Region: Bellville at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• This is a regional sales management role which is responsible for managing a team of vested Financial Advisor’s that have more than 24 months’ experience. This will be a hybrid Sales Manager role thus looking after experienced Advisors.

Output/Core Tasks:

The expectations of the role is to:

• Create and drive sales plans, targets and growth
• Marketing and business building support
• Coaching and development of Financial Advisors
• Manage business retention processes
• Compliance and risk management
• Enable practice management
• Oversee quality and productivity management
• Provide effective People and Performance Management
• Budgets and expense management of team
• Recruiting of Experienced Financial Intermediaries
• Enable Key Account Penetration and Drive the relevant Value Proposition

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification & experience

• Extensive Financial Services experience in a marketing/sales environment
• 3 – 5 years Sales and Operational Management/leadership of a team/unit
• Management Diploma
• Commercial/Financial or business related diploma/degree
• CFP/RFP3 or equivalent (i.e.: 120 credits)
• RE

Knowledge and skills

To be successful you will need to demonstrate good experience in:

IT:

• MS: Office (Excel, Word, PP)
• Web based platform tool/site
• Advisor tools (i.e.: Sanfin; Leads program, Sanport, Advice Partner)
• AUTONUB

Business/Management:

• Financial Services Industry Knowledge
• Financial Services Product Knowledge (Sanlam and competitors)
• Legal technical Knowledge (product related)
• Relevant regulatory legislation and compliance knowledge (FAIS accredited)
• Business planning
• New and Existing business processes
• Advisor contracts and remuneration
• Sales and marketing processes and practices
• Leads management and campaigns/competitions
• Management skills to manage staff
• Budgets and expense management
• SFA distribution model and value propositions
• Key Account Experience

Personal Qualities:

• Cultivates Innovation
• Client Centricity
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Drives Vision and Purpose
• Business Insight
• Directs Work
• Decision Quality
• Treating Customers Fairly

The closing date for applications is 16 December 2025.