Job Description
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh, Bristol, London or Hybrid / flexible location.
Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.
Closing Date: 17th March 2026
Salary and benefits: From £46k depending on experience, plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
Who are we?
We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
The role
As a Senior Distribution Consultant you will build strong relationships internally and externally, driving New Business results through robust stakeholder management, good communication and excellent influencing. Provide a high-quality adviser experience managing live scheme enquiries, planning and executing on all key adviser meetings and supporting regular communications.
You will develop an excellent knowledge of our proposition and strategy, make courageous, commercial decisions, with a relentless focus on continuous development and improvement for a highly efficient and effective team, always with advisers in mind.
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience of Distribution or Sales Support within Workplace Pensions with excellent knowledge of both trust and contract products
- Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders to gain appropriate support to meet adviser and client demands, plan and organise meetings and resolve issues
- Manage conflicting and varying demands, often under pressure, working with little or no supervision
- Maintaining a high level of knowledge of the Workplace strategy, plans and propositions and keeping abreast of relevant legislative and regulatory changes
- Strategic, innovative and commercial thinking to drive continuous improvements that will deliver results for our advisers and clients
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.
Find out more about working at Standard Life
· Guide for Candidates: standardlifeplc.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
· Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.standardlifeplc.com/careers/talk-to-us
