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Senior Advisor, Personal
- Montreal, QC, Canada
- Complexe Desjardins Montréal, Canada
Full-time
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As a senior personal advisor, you help serve, prospect for, solicit, and develop and maintain business relationships with members and clients. You provide service tailored to client needs in accordance with current strategies and practices. You lead and influence clients and practitioners on sales and service development projects, initiatives and activities that significantly impact the entire organization. You take a strategic mindset to boost the organization’s development and profitability while retaining clients and stakeholders and ensuring their satisfaction. You draw on your networking skills and interpersonal savvy to develop and maintain business partnerships with prestige and key clients who have complex, diverse needs. Your highly complex, strategic initiatives require extensive knowledge of sales and service. You analyze extremely complex problems and develop and implement personalized solutions tailored to client needs. You serve as expert for your unit, members and clients and represent your unit before senior management committees and decision-making bodies. You represent Desjardins and enter the organization into important agreements with clients. You also have considerable leeway and many opportunities to establish and negotiate product and service terms. More specifically, you will be required to :
- Evaluate and act on business and partnership opportunities to boost the organization’s development and profitability.
- Advise members, clients and stakeholders to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic initiatives.
- See to member, client and stakeholder development, retention and satisfaction. Develop retention tactics and strategies.
- Monitor the industry to understand and anticipate trends in your field and make recommendations.
What we offer*
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
- Group insurance including telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
*Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.
What you bring to the table
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- A minimum of eight years of relevant experience
- Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
- Knowledge of French is required
- Advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility
At Desjardins, we believe in equity, diversity and inclusion. We're committed to welcoming, respecting and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. At Desjardins, we have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind. We believe our teams should reflect the diversity of the members, clients and communities we serve.
If there's something we can do to help make the recruitment process or the job you're applying for more accessible, let us know. We can provide accommodations at any stage in the recruitment process. Just ask!
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Job Family
Member/client sales and service (FG)Unposting Date
2026-10-12More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Advisor develops and maintains business relationships with key clients while implementing strategic initiatives to boost organizational profitability. They act as an expert for their unit, representing the organization before senior management and negotiating complex product and service terms.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a related field and possess a minimum of eight years of relevant experience. Proficiency in both English and French is required due to the nature of the duties and interactions with diverse stakeholders.
Skills
- Sales development
- Strategic planning
- Networking
- Client retention
- Negotiation
- Problem solving
- Financial advisory
- Market analysis
- Communication
- Leadership
- Customer focus
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus
- 4 weeks of flexible vacation
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Group insurance
- Telemedicine
- Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses
- Telework equipment
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Sales
- Management & Leadership
- Customer Service & Support
- Consulting
Keywords
- Senior Advisor
- Business Development
- Client Retention
- Strategic Initiatives
- Sales
- Partnership Management
- Financial Services
- Stakeholder Management
- Market Trends
- Negotiation
- Hybrid Work
- Relationship Management
- Business Strategy
- Client Satisfaction
- Professional Services