Business Development Director - Mid Corporates, Leeds

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JOB TITLE: Business Development Director, Mid Corporates
LOCATION(S): Leeds
HOURS: Full Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, in the office.

About this opportunity

Do you want to join a dynamic and growth focused team and help shape the future of our business? If so, we have exciting opportunity for a Business Development Director to join our expanding team.

You'll work with our Mid Corporates prospects, those with turnover between £25m - £100m and help attract high value clients to Lloyds. You'll build a wide network of professionals and key influencers in and around the Yorkshire region, developing  business opportunities these connections can bring.

You'll provide expert knowledge, support and guidance to support Lloyds in becoming the best bank for business.

What you'll be doing:

• Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, including the planning and execution of contact strategies enabling you to win new to bank clients.
• Understanding client strategies to provide the best possible solutions to support clients success in a highly competitive marketplace.
• Building and managing relationships with key partners, internally and externally.
• Developing and implementing strategies to increase revenue and market share.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business growth and ensure client delivery.
• Monitoring market trends and competitor activities and developing both proactive and reactive strategies to increase our effectiveness
• Work with customers, partners, and team members to negotiate pricing, terms, and structures that benefit all parties involved.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, dynamc and fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s developing and empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What we need from you:

• Validated experience in business development or a similar role within corporate or commercial banking.
• Track record of winning new business against the competition
• Deep understanding of the corporate business and an understanding of the importance of sector .
• Excellent credit and sector knowledge with the ability to quickly identify and understand complex problems and solutions to support.
• Demonstrated expertise in analytical and critical thinking.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills.

About working for us

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 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.

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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today!

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.