Relationship Consultant

About Cornmarket Group Financial Services Ltd.

Cornmarket focuses on enhancing the financial wellbeing of public sector employees and their families. With over 54 years of expertise, they provide a range of financial products including car, home, health, and life insurance, income protection, retirement planning, and related services.

Role Purpose

The Relationship Consultant will join the Partnerships team to strengthen and develop strategic connections across Ireland's public sector. The role involves opening new pathways, creating opportunities, and positioning Cornmarket as a trusted partner within workplaces that are traditionally hard to access.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement strategies to cultivate relationships within public sector organizations.
• Locate, engage, and secure access to workplaces that have been difficult to penetrate previously.
• Establish and maintain trusted connections with key decision-makers, influencers, and employee representatives.
• Initiate events, presentations, and initiatives to generate leads for the Wellbeing team in collaboration with relationship managers.
• Identify commercial opportunities and successfully convert them into new business revenue.
• Represent Cornmarket professionally at various events, conferences, and networking platforms.
• Collaborate effectively with the partnerships manager and internal teams to maximize opportunities and ensure seamless client experiences.
• Adhere to risk control and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date commercial awareness related to the role.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Possession of a Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) qualification at start.
• Demonstrated experience in relationship management, business development, account management, or sales roles.
• Strong networking capabilities and influence skills.
• Ability to confidently engage with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Highly organized with strong planning and time management skills.
• Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision.
• Full clean driving license and willingness to travel.
• Understanding of risk control and regulatory environments within Financial Services.
• Commercially astute.

Desirable Experience

• Background in business development roles.
• Familiarity with employee benefits, financial services, or workplace wellbeing programs.

Behavioral Competencies

• Highly driven and self-motivated.
• Ambitious with a strong commitment to success and impact.
• Resilient and persistent, especially in challenging access environments.
• Entrepreneurial mindset for identifying and creating opportunities.
• Self-sufficient, taking full ownership of assigned territory and results.
• Confident, personable, and credible when interacting with stakeholders at all levels.
• Collaborative, leveraging opportunities to involve colleagues in client engagements.
• Commercially minded, while prioritizing relationship-building.

What Cornmarket Offers

• Flexible work arrangements including work-from-home under the Cornmarket Flex programme.
• Investment in career development, including financial and professional qualifications support.
• Generous annual leave entitlements, increasing with service, and option to purchase additional leave.
• Competitive and adaptable pension contributions.
• Health insurance or wellness subsidy options.
• Fully paid family leave encompassing maternity, paternity, and surrogacy.
• Performance-based bonus and commission plans.
• Income protection and life insurance coverage.
• Discounts on financial products.
• Comprehensive wellbeing initiatives.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Active Sports and Social Club participation.

Additional Information

This role is classified as a ‘controlled function’ under the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 Regulations 2011 and is subject to Fitness and Probity standards as regulated by the Central Bank. Appointment depends on satisfactory due diligence confirming the candidate's fit and proper status.

Equal Opportunities and Data Privacy

Cornmarket promotes an inclusive environment welcoming applicants from diverse backgrounds including those returning to work or changing careers. All qualified applicants are considered regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender identity, marital status, Traveller Community membership, national origin, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Reasonable accommodations are available during recruitment upon request. For details on data handling, refer to the company's Recruitment Data Privacy Notice.