Business Development Director SME, Trading

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Business Development Director SME, Trading

LOCATION(S): Manchester - Westminster House

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 acquiring new switchers and providing innovative funding solutions. 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 creative 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

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customer, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’ll be free to be yourself.  Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.

What you’ll need

To succeed in this role, you should ideally demonstrate:

• 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, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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

• Competitive holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental

leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We’d love to hear from you.

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.