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Business Development Director SME, Trading

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Monday 21 April 2025

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JOB TITLE: Business Development Director SME, Trading

LOCATION(S): Manchester and Liverpool

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Manchester

Join our dynamic Intermediaries team within the Business & Commercial Bank, focusing on delivering term debt lending and acquiring new switchers for the organisation. Your mission will be to build and nurture relationships with brokers, leading the promotion of the bank to professionals and key influencers in your local area.

This role offers the chance to support our SME clients, typically with turnovers between £3 million and £25 million. As a crucial community figure, you'll develop business opportunities and represent our group within the professional community. You'll be an ambassador for change, embracing new tools to enhance the client and colleague experience, and support your team in achieving their goals.

Key responsibilities:

  • Deliver exceptional service to brokers and clients, ensuring their needs are at the heart of every interaction. 
  • Provide funding solutions, write credit proposals, and ensure compliance with conduct risk requirements.
  • Lead the profiling of the Bank through a variety of medium including digital advocacy and professional social media.
  • Foster strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver comprehensive banking solutions tailored to brokers' needs.
  • Support and mentor the team, providing guidance to help them achieve their objectives

What you’ll need

To succeed in this role, you should ideally demonstrate:

  • Existing commercial banking experience alongside strong credit writing skills in the SME space and a proven track record of delivery of term debt products.
  • Results Focused: Taking personal responsibility for delivering results and embracing change with a growth mindset.
  • New Client Acquisition: Expertise in building and maintaining productive relationships, adept at securing high volumes of high-value client relationships.
  • Specialist Knowledge: Relevant credit and sector knowledge with experience using digital tools to drive excellent client outcomes and growth.
  • People Skills: A growth mindset, keen to adopt tools that enhance the client experience.
  • Environmental Awareness: Upholding the Bank’s image through strong ethics and integrity across various clients and professionals.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day and build an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.  We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.  And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.  We’d love to hear from you!
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