Associate Director, Commercial Banking Coverage Development

JOB TITLE: Associate Director, Commercial Banking Coverage Development

LOCATION (s): Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds

SALARY: Starting from £65,385, depending on experience

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 your local office.

About the opportunity

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? Are you passionate about delivering initiatives to benefit our clients and colleagues? We’re looking for an Associate Director, Commercial Banking Coverage (CBC) Development within Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) - Commercial Banking Coverage, where you can play a key role in shaping the future of our Relationship Management channel by supporting critical client move activities, optimizing our operating model and delivering enablers that drive growth and efficiency for our client facing teams.

The CBC Development team sits within Commercial Banking Coverage Direct, which is a remote relationship channel, which proactively supports clients and helps them to grow, but this role will work at an enterprise level across both CBC and BCB as required.  Our small team are enabled by colleagues who feel empowered, can test new ways of working, operate at pace and can deliver great client and colleague outcomes. This role offers excellent opportunities for personal growth and professional advancement.

What you'll do:

• Support the shaping and execution of client move activities and business initiatives, aligning to our target operating model and bring our strategic plans to life
• Act as the voice of the CBC business, representing both client and colleague, influencing and collaborating with BCB and Group stakeholders
• Effectively communicate priorities, shaping meaningful actions and plans by collaborating with stakeholders through proposals, business cases, working groups and presentational materials
• Be curious, tenacious and adaptable in driving great outcomes for our business, delivering both directly and influencing others

What you’ll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need to be proactive, adaptable, take initiative and demonstrate delivery at a national level, with client and colleague at the heart of what you do.

• Effective Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build relationships and influence credibly at all levels of the organization.
• Business Knowledge: understanding of CBC/ BCB clients, colleagues and processes would be helpful
• Written & Presentation Skills: Ability to simplify and present complex and technical matters in an accessible manner e.g. Powerpoint
• Organisation: Strong organizational skills to manage competing priorities, build plans and deliver effectively.
• Analytical Skills: Some ability to dissect and understand basic data in Microsoft Excel and translate into meaningful information and actions.
• Organisational Awareness: Ability to navigate across a broad range of stakeholders and think strategically and critically at an enterprise level

About working for us!

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. 

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

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