PRUVenture Apprentice Head

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Recruitment and Distribution Expansion Head under Distribution, the Head of PRUVenture (PV) Apprentice manages and leads the team tasked to create and run programs to attract and develop qualified individuals to become full time career agents of the company. He or she understands that as a sourcing and development hub, PV Apprentice will complement Distribution’s efforts in organic and inorganic advisor development and will also be a channel where producers are honed to increase the number of active agents and MDRT qualifiers. Thus, all efforts should be directed to ensuring the success of those who signed up in this program.

The Department Head shall be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end execution of this program which include design, implementation, and evaluation, recruitment & selection of candidates, training & development, performance management, compensation & recognition, program expansion & reach, and communication & collaboration with the sales management team and partner leaders.

Apprentice is a feeder for other PV programs.

Job Accountabilities:

• Lead and represent PV Apprentice in various workstreams and mgt committees, local or otherwise

• Design, implement, and evaluate the program

• Promote to and engage agency leaders to subscribe to PV Apprentice

• Define key result areas and build indicators to achieve program objectives aligned with company’s goals and directions.  This includes number of active agents, number of agents validating, First Year Premium generated, etc

• Provide continuous development interventions to every member of the team.

• Ensure that PV Apprentice adheres to Market Conduct Guidelines as well as Pru Life UK’s Compliance Standards.

• Budget efficiency

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in business management, marketing, communications

• Domain knowledge of the industry: processes, basic plans, compensation, and R&I

• With industry certification (e,g., FLMI, CTEP, CWP, etc)

• Recruitment

• Leadership and management 

• Communication 

• Negotiating and Influencing

• Reports and analysis

• 7 years of sales management and/or training experience preferably gained from a life insurance company

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.