7IM has made a trio of hires into its intermediary sales team.

Andrew Watson becomes head of sales management; Simon Church becomes business development manager team leader; and Gareth Perry a business development manager.

Mr Watson will be charged with working with the regional sales teams to ensure high standards of collaboration, consistency and sales focus.

He joins from M&G where he spent over 24 years, holding a number of sales-focused roles, most recently head of UK wholesale.

Mr Church joins from Tatton and will work across the Home Counties, while Mr Perry focuses on the South West of En...