Challenger Limited is an ASX-listed investment management firm managing $131 billion in assets (as at 31 December 2024). Life with us is fast moving and always exciting. Together we’re driving to deliver our vision to provide our customers with financial security for a better retirement.
We achieve this goal by providing a work environment where people from diverse backgrounds, with a range of skills and experiences can contribute and succeed.
National Strategy & Partnerships Associate
- Play a key role in supporting national sales strategies, strategic account management, platform partnerships, and managing stakeholder relationships to expand business opportunities.
- Help coordinate major events—work closely with business development teams and marketing to ensure successful execution of sales initiatives and enhance account engagement.
- We are open to considering candidates from different States. Typically, we work from our Brisbane CBD Office where you can expect to work 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
The Strategy & Partnerships Associate role is responsible for providing support to the Retirement Strategy & Partnerships team members and delivering key Licensee, Adviser and Platform initiatives to market through the broader distribution team. The role will assist in the co-ordination of stakeholders to deliver solutions to market that drive new business and retention outcomes.
This role is integral in supporting the National Strategy & Relationships Manager in devising and executing the sales strategy and plan into the Retail Adviser channel, broadening our distribution footprint and driving growth, alongside being a key contact and conduit for key Strategic Accounts. The role also provides support from an ongoing Strategic Accounts perspective including working closely with the Head of Platform Partnerships on various initiatives.
Operating as part of Challengers Retirement Distribution division, the Retail Life Distribution team is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with financial intermediaries (primarily Financial Advisers and other key licensee representatives).
Responsibilities include:
- Support distribution strategy: Support National Strategy & Relationships engagements, including ensuring smooth execution of platform partnership initiatives.
- Strategic Account Management: Contribute to the development and tracking of annual strategic account plans, ensuring progress is captured and communicated for broader business engagement.
- Help with coordination and management of key business and strategic projects that impact and relate to Retirement Distribution, Strategic Accounts or Platform Partnerships including change management support
- Strategic planning support: Assist in developing quarterly planning packs and national strategic initiatives.
- Work closely with key Partnership stakeholders to support and drive joint initiatives with platform providers, ensuring the partnership model is integrated effectively into the overall Retirement Distribution strategy.
- Market execution: Support the execution of the go to market strategy for the Retirement Distribution team, including campaign coordination, account prioritisation, and product development.
- Communication management: Maintain the Strategic Relationships, Platform Partnerships and Distribution collaboration site on MS Teams, ensuring timely communication, up to date information, and compliant infield collateral.
- Event & campaign execution: Support end to end execution of Strategic Account events and campaigns, coordinating logistics, communications, and performance reporting alongside Marketing.
- Licensee engagement: Coordinate Placements and Bookbuilds for targeted Licensees within Retail Life Distribution when required.
- Stakeholder coordination: Manage stakeholder coordination for distribution-led initiatives, including National Roadshows and other key events.
Skills required:
- Experience in the financial services industry.
- Project management and/or Business Analyst experience is highly regarded.
- Experience in Account Management with a focus on driving business growth and fostering long-term relationships.
- Proven ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships both internally and externally.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Teams, and Salesforce.
- RG146 compliant.
Additional Information:
At Challenger, we support your growth and development, offering flexibility and a culture that values your unique contributions. You’ll be part of a supportive investment team that encourages learning, innovation, and making a real impact.
If you’re excited about using your skills to drive positive change within a leading investment team, we’d love to hear from you.
Working at Challenger means being part of a diverse, connected team that has fun and loves what they do. We’re small enough, but big enough to accelerate bold ideas, realising what’s possible for our customers and partners. At Challenger, we provide access to a range of exclusive employee benefits that will support you both personally and professionally and a hybrid work environment including.
- Discretionary bonus scheme.
- Eighteen weeks paid leave for all new parents.
- Flexibility on when, and how, parental leave is taken.
- Challenger Day – one extra day off every year in recognition of the effort our people make.
- Additional support leave (fertility treatment leave, gender affirmation leave).
- Extra superannuation contributions.
- Employee share plan.
Visit our benefits page for more information –
https://www.challenger.com.au/about-us/careers/our-benefits
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We value inclusion and diversity of thought, promote flexible working practices so our people can integrate their work and personal lives, and are proud to be a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
We believe in bringing your authentic self and a belonging in our culture. We are prideful in participating in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) as a national benchmark on LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion and best practice in Australia. We offer the opportunity for a broad career experience and value people who are inquisitive and rigorous and are driven to make a difference.
Job type:
Permanent
Posting Close Date :
25/04/2025
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What We Do
Challenger Life is Australia’s largest provider of annuities and provides regular income to thousands of customers. We’re a multi-award-winning Life Company and have $23 billion in assets under management (as at 30 June 2023).
Challenger is focused on providing customers with financial security for retirement. We do this by offering investment strategies that exhibit consistently superior performance, and by helping customers in retirement with safe and reliable income streams.
As Australia’s largest annuity provider, we provide regular income payments to thousands of Australian retirees. Our lifetime annuities protect retirees from the risk of running out of money late in life.
The regular retirement incomes we pay are backed by a high-quality investment portfolio, including fixed income and commercial property investments. These investments generate regular and predictable investment income, which we use to fund retirement incomes paid to our customers.
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