Director - North Sales, BCB Markets

Job title: Director - North Sales, BCB Markets

Location: Manchester

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of your time, at our Manchester office.

About this opportunity:

We're looking for a Director in our Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) Markets team, where you'll be part of a diverse and ambitious group of regulated sales professionals supporting over 3,000 small and medium-sized businesses. Based in Manchester, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering strategic solutions, helping Mid-Corporate clients navigate key stages of their business lifecycle.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and grow our franchise in the North of England, working directly with clients to deliver complex multi-product risk management strategies. You'll collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to drive business development, facilitate transactions and embed our medium-term strategy for BCB Markets Sales.

This role is considered Certified under the Senior Manager and Certification Regime as either requiring mandatory qualifications or being deemed as a role capable of providing ‘significant harm’ to customers. Due to this, successful candidates will be subject to enhanced levels of vetting and required to complete a fitness and propriety attestation on commencement in role. Colleagues performing this role will be required to be complete a fitness and propriety attestation on an annual basis and will also be subject to additional routine criminal and credit checks.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build and manage relationships with Mid-Corporate clients (T/O £25m+), offering strategic insights into currency, commodity and interest rate exposures.
• Collaborate with Credit, Coverage, Business Development and Delivery teams to secure and complete transactions efficiently.
• Develop and implement plans to grow existing client relationships and expand the portfolio through targeted business development.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and handle documentation for complex transactions, supporting deal forums and facility applications.
• Price, structure and deliver tailored FX, Interest Rate and Commodity risk management solutions.
• Champion the Connected digital treasury platform and support its go-to-market strategy for North West Mid-Corporate clients.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• CF30 Certified. Proof of qualification and satisfaction of CISI Regulations, Securities and Derivatives 
• Extensive experience at Director level delivering complex risk management solutions across asset classes to mid-sized corporate clients.
• Strong understanding of transaction documentation, credit risk principles and financial market products.
• Proficiency in pricing tools that generate executable client prices aligned with risk and capital requirements.
• Ability to present original solutions and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.
• Passion for financial markets and the ability to simplify complex concepts for C-Suite clients and advisors.
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills, with a confirmed ability to manage priorities and collaborate optimally.

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 reasonable adjustments 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.
• 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!