Business Development Manager - Scotland

JOB TITLE: Business Development Manager - Scotland

SALARY: From £59,850

LOCATION(S): Scotland wide

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Remote worker – field-based role.

* Field based role with a requirement of spending 80% of time in your patch with Brokers

Applicant will ideally live within the central Scotland belt

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 will 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.

Location & Ways of working

We will need you to be based in Scotland for this role, with travel expected throughout the country. Our Business Development Managers are expected to work flexibly, splitting their time between 'on the road' meeting clients face to face and working from home.

Some of the activities you'll be involved in are:

• 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.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re 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

• 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.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 are 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.