Job Purpose
This role is responsible for managing a set of relationships, acquisition of new relationships and driving achievement of the sales target expected from the relationships.
Job Context & Major Challenges
Organisation Context
Established in 1994, Birla Sunlife Asset Management Company, (BSLAMC) is a joint venture between Aditya Birla Group and Sunlife Financial Inc., a leading international financial services company in Canada.
BSLAMC is a fund manager for Birla Sunlife Mutual Funds and currently ranks as the fourth largest fund Management houses in India with a total Average AUM base of over INR 1 Lakh 40 Thousand Crores (as on Dec 2015). Out of the 42 fund houses in the country, BSLAMC ranked 1st in Fixed Income AUM and 5th in Equity AUM category respectively. As of December 2015, the Average AUM market Share of the organisation was approx 10.2%. The company grew its investor client base by 20% to about 2.42Mn from 2.01Mn from the previous year, thereby bagging a second position in this category.
Distribution Network:
BSLAMC has a footprint in 150 locations across the country with approx 45,000 IFAs, 190 National Distributors & 85 banking partnership. BSLAMC also has its offshore presence through its rep offices in Singapore, Dubai & Mauritius. The employees strength of BSLAMC is approx. 1000 employees (Onrolls and Associates as on Dec 2015). BSLAMC has a customer base of approx. over 2.5 million customers as on Dec 2015 with total gross sales of approx. 8.8 lac Crores
The Company follows a long term, fundamental research based approach to investment and thrives to provide a transparent and ethical services to its investors.
One of the key challenges for BSLAMC has been to maintain a balance between moving with energetic and constantly changing regulatory norms of the country and maintaining growth and profitability in the extremely competitive market. And some of key strengths of the organization that have helped it to sustain and grow are:
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