Financial Advisor Recruiter & Business Development Manager

Supreme Alliance LLC is an established independent broker-dealer entering a new phase of growth. The Financial Advisor Recruiter & Business Development Manager will expand the firm's advisor network by building a sustainable recruiting pipeline, engaging experienced financial professionals, managing consultative recruiting processes, and supporting advisor affiliations and transitions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage a nationwide pipeline of prospective financial advisors and registered representatives
• Proactively identify and contact experienced financial professionals through telephone outreach, email, LinkedIn, industry databases, referrals, networking, conferences, and other recruiting channels
• Conduct consistent outbound prospecting and follow-up with both warm and cold prospects
• Build relationships with advisors who may not currently be actively considering a broker-dealer change
• Conduct initial discovery conversations to understand each advisor's current business, product mix, production, goals, concerns, and reasons they may consider changing firms
• Educate prospective representatives about Supreme Alliance's value proposition, including our independent structure, product access, personalized service, compliance support, technology, payout structure, operational support, and transition process
• Identify the needs and priorities that matter most to each prospective advisor and position the firm's resources accordingly
• Address common objections and concerns regarding broker-dealer transitions
• Qualify prospective advisors to ensure their business models, experience, production, and regulatory histories align with the firm's standards
• Coordinate qualified prospective advisors with executive management, compliance, operations, and other members of the firm as appropriate
• Manage prospective advisors throughout the full recruiting cycle—from initial outreach and discovery through due diligence, decision, affiliation, and transition
• Maintain consistent follow-up with long-term prospects who may require months or longer before making a transition decision
• Develop referral opportunities through existing representatives, centers of influence, wholesalers, product sponsors, and other financial-services professionals
• Maintain accurate recruiting activity, prospect notes, pipeline stages, next steps, and expected affiliation dates within the firm's CRM
• Work with management and marketing to improve advisor recruiting campaigns, digital outreach, recruiting materials, landing pages, email campaigns, events, and other lead-generation initiatives
• Monitor competing broker-dealers and industry trends to help strengthen the firm's recruiting strategy and advisor value proposition
• Provide management with regular reports on prospecting activity, qualified opportunities, recruiting pipeline, expected affiliations, completed affiliations, and recruiting results

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
• Financial advisor recruiting
• Broker-dealer recruiting or business development
• Wealth-management business development
• Mutual fund, annuity, insurance, or asset-management wholesaling
• Financial-services sales
• Custodial or advisor-platform business development
• Strong understanding of the independent financial-advisor and broker-dealer marketplace
• Demonstrated ability to prospect for and develop new business rather than relying solely on inbound leads
• Experience conducting high-volume telephone and electronic outreach
• Strong relationship-building and consultative-sales skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with experienced financial advisors, registered representatives, and business owners
• Comfortable discussing advisor economics, broker-dealer relationships, payouts, product platforms, technology, compliance support, operational support, and transition considerations
• Strong objection-handling, negotiation, and closing skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized with the ability to manage a large pipeline of prospects at different stages of the recruiting process
• Experience using CRM and prospecting tools
• Self-motivated, persistent, and comfortable working toward measurable growth goals
• Existing relationships within the independent financial-advisor community are highly desirable
• FINRA registrations and broker-dealer experience are preferred but are not required for all candidates, depending upon background and responsibilities