Advisor Recruiter/Business Development Manager

Prudential Financial, Inc. has been helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth for over 140 years. They are seeking a Business Development Manager to support recruiting efforts for financial advisors, focusing on sourcing and qualifying high-performing talent and building a recruiting strategy in collaboration with firm leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Be a knowledgeable consultant and partner to the Mid America Financial Group leadership team: Collaboration is the way we get things done here. You’ll be encouraged to share your past experiences and advise on how we can do things differently for greater impact
• Source and qualify high-performing Financial Advisor talent: Developing leads and contacting prospective advisors to determine alignment of their current business within Prudential Advisors strategies, goals, and compliance processes
• Have a sales and marketing mindset to your recruiting activities: Through multiple channels and partnering with marketing, articulate our value proposition in a manner that convinces high-performing, passive financial advisor talent to join our firm
• Turn insights into actions, and actions into great recruiting results. (Rinse and repeat): Acquiring advanced knowledge of local competitor firms and using that market intelligence to build a network of talent and robust pipelines within the assigned market

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5+ years' experience in the Financial Services industry with recruiting financial advisors with successful practices
• Ability to manage a high-volume goal driven environment, sometimes with conflicting priorities
• Strong relationship building, partnering, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Ability to travel (25%)
• College degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• Familiarity with a 'marketer's mindset' - understands prospect online behaviors, selection methods and techniques such as using social media and other marketing channels for attraction
• Securities licensing preferred but not required