About the Role
This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing, mission-led business that's transforming how people access financial advice. You'll be at the heart of our growth journey, working with progressive, people-focused businesses who want to do better by their employees. You'll sell a product that genuinely improves lives, and you'll be surrounded by a team that moves fast, thinks sharply, and cares deeply about the mission.
Responsibilities
- Own the full sales cycle from initial outreach to close
- Research, plan, and collaborate with the SDR and marketing team to create outreach campaigns for target accounts across financial services, professional services, legal, recruitment, media, and tech
- Lead discovery conversations that challenge and educate HR and Reward teams
- Tailor our value proposition to specific client needs and sectors
- Build a tailored business case connecting our solution to the business objectives
- Build and nurture a high-quality pipeline of opportunities
- Consistently hit and exceed revenue targets
- Lead and coordinate internal resources, including SDR, operations, and launch/success teams, to ensure seamless deal delivery
- Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and industry developments to identify new business opportunities
- Participate in client-facing activities such as dinners, breakfasts, and industry events to strengthen relationships and drive engagement
- Feed insights back to the product team based on client needs and market demand
Requirements
- Proven track record in a closing sales role, ideally in a startup or scrappy, fast-moving environment
- Comfortable diagnosing a problem before pitching a solution, rather than running a fixed script
- Comfortable working in ambiguity, building process as you go rather than following an established playbook
- Confident thinking on your feet and adapting your approach mid-conversation or mid-deal
- A relentless, high-urgency approach to your work, with the judgement to know what matters most
- Sharp instincts with people, you read situations quickly and adjust your approach accordingly
- Experience selling into multi-stakeholder sales cycles
- Experience selling to HR buyers in the workplace
- A track record of being a top performer (president's club, #1 rep, similar) rather than just tenure in a role
- Experience selling a category-creating or newer product, where you're educating the market rather than responding to existing demand
Skills
- Sales
- Business Development
- Relationship Building
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Adaptability
- Urgency
- Focus
- Initiative
- Prioritization
- Market Analysis
- Negotiation
Location
- UK
- Working from anywhere
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior-level
Salary/Compensations
- Bonus for non-commission based roles
Benefits
- 18 days a year working from anywhere (for non regulated roles)
- Bonus for non-commission based roles
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Birthday day off
- A supportive team who care about what they do
- The chance to help people improve their lives
About the Company
- At Octopus Money, we're on a mission to make money advice accessible to all, because the right advice can turn your life dreams into reality.
- We combine advisers, coaches and technology to understand your situation and recommend the right steps for your savings, investments, pensions and more.
- We believe everyone deserves personal, 1-to-1 advice with their money.
- We’re part of the Octopus Group: a privately-owned business that’s been doing things differently for 25 years.
- Octopus sets out to build businesses that will outlive us and create a better world for future generations, including brands such as Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Legacy.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe in equal financial education for everybody, no matter their background.
- We pride ourselves on building an inclusive working environment where diversity is celebrated.
- We do not and never will discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
