Regional Agricultural Manager - South & South East

Job Title: Regional Agricultural Manager – Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC)
Location:  South & South East England
Salary: Competitive package available
Hours: Full Time
Working Pattern: Two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices or in face to face interactions with Clients, Agents and professionals.

About this opportunity

We have a very rare and exciting opportunity to join the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC) business as a Regional Agricultural Manager (RAM) for the South and South East of England. This is an extremely interesting part of the Group's Business & Commercial Banking (B&CB) Division.

This position creates a great platform for a self-motivated, hard-working individual to develop their career. The role requires a significant amount of travelling within the region and occasional attendance at hub locations including at our offices in Andover.

You'll have responsibility for a region within the AMC business, supporting clients, agents and industry professionals within the portfolio. You'll work closely with a network of non-employed AMC agents, growing their lending performance. In addition, you'll work with internal partners to provide both Switcher business leads and HP & Leasing leads for Commercial Finance.

What will you be doing?

• Manages and develops important customer, AMC Agent and professional relationships within own Region with guidance from senior colleagues and/or manages a regional support team delivering day-to-day support operations within the AMC.
• Meets the needs of customers and professionals related to the range of products delivered by the AMC business within own Region.
• Supporting the Team forma development framework with guidance from senior colleagues, while informally coaching others throughout the organisation in area of expertise and pursuing and investing in opportunities for own personal development.
• Development and delivery of a growth plan for own Region.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What we need from you

• Experienced finance and/or business professional with a highly developed local network.
• A consistent track record in new business development.
• Previous experience in credit applications completion.
• A background working with intermediaries.

And any experience of these would be useful:

• Strong preference for experience within the agricultural sector either within a current professional role or through a direct farming background.

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. 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!