Business Development Manager - Intermediaries (South West England)

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JOB TITLE: Business Development Manager – Intermediaries

SALARY: The salary banding for this is £61,344 - £68,160

LOCATION: Bristol, Bath, Swindon, Taunton areas. Due to travel in role, candidate will need in and around these locations.

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Remote worker – field-based role (requirement of spending 80% of time in your patch with brokers)

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join Halifax Intermediaries as part of our wider Intermediaries team. Intermediaries is a diverse team who educate and support mortgage brokers and financial advisors to meet customer needs with residential mortgage products, and the wider housing market. The environment is rewarding and fast paced as we set ourselves exacting standards and your ability to build relationships will be very important.

As a Business Development Manager, you’ll be the face of LBG in the Intermediary Market and will work with both internal and external partners to deliver ambitious targets. You'll be required to build & maintain strong external relationships within a well-established territory.

We'll encourage you to collaborate with key partners to develop business opportunities for increased income and growth. Building and strengthening existing relationships as well as developing new ones you with educate and support your brokers to help them meet the needs of their clients. We'll support you in becoming an authority in the housing market with a specific focus on Residential mortgages and a key member of our current BDM team.

What will I be doing?

• You'll deliver specialised support and service for both new and existing accounts and respond to complex customer enquiries.

• Managing an established territory the role would provide you with a tremendous opportunity to get results and hit ambitious targets in this exciting sector.

• You'll build collaborative relationships with mortgage intermediary partners.

• We'll expect you to carry out a variety of broker appointments and develop business both virtually and face to face.

• You’ll have the opportunity to build your knowledge from our existing expertise in the housing mortgage market, and you’ll be encouraged to develop your role to become a key asset within our regional team.

• It will be important to keep track of risks within the intermediary mortgage market and your broker panel; educate intermediaries in how to identify and overcome existing and emerging risks and manage any breaches.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Strong business development and/or relationship management skills, preferably within an intermediated environment

• A good understanding of the buy to let mortgage market landscape covering regulatory, technical, and legislative changes and opportunities.

• Experience of working in financial services, preferably an area focused on mortgages.

• Ability to read, understand and use data effectively to help your co-ordinate & prioritise your workload.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills including face to face, telephone and in virtual environments.

• In depth understanding of risk, compliance, and regulatory changes & opportunities.

Ideally

• A CeMap Qualification (or working towards) would be beneficial but not essential.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building 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 underrepresented groups.

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

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.