Quilter Financial Planning has hired Victoria Jenson as regional director to help “grow its mortgage network”, this publication understands.
In her role, Jenson will be responsible for recruiting and onboarding mortgage and protection advisers for Quilter’s mortgage network and will report to Charlotte Nixon, proposition and distribution director at Quilter Financial Planning.
Jenson joins from Primis Mortgage Network, where she worked as a regional sales director for around six years. Before that, she was a regional director at Intrinsic Financial Services for nearly six years.
She also worked as a regional sales manager at Personal Touch Financial Services for almost two years and was a sales manager at Legal and General for around 15 years.
Nixon said: “We’re really pleased to welcome Victoria back to the team. She played a pivotal role in driving business when she was previously with us over six years ago. In her new role, she will help us further grow our mortgage network so more advisers have access to our market-leading proposition.
“This hire is the next step in the considerable investment we have made into growing our mortgage network. We remain committed to bringing new advisers into the industry and helping them progress in the profession.”
Jenson added: “I’m incredibly excited to be re-joining Quilter Financial Planning. Its flexible and broad proposition make it a great home for advisers, whatever route they want to take their careers in. I am looking forward to helping advisers take advantage of the many benefits of being part of Quilter’s mortgage network.”
Quilter has been growing its team, hiring Craig Ross as its adviser propositions head earlier this year.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.