Relationship Manager- SME Trading Sectors

Locations: London

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Today

End Date: January 28, 2026 (7 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: 149981

Salary Range: Starting from £70,929

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

About This Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join our highly successful Business & Commercial Banking team in the London & East England Trading Region. We provide outstanding support for businesses within the SME sector and this exciting role is in Trading sectors including Charities and Not-for-Profit (NFP) businesses.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lending from Term Loans to Working Capital Solutions such as Invoice Finance, Hire Purchase and Trade.
• Deposits and a wide range of other services.
• We have an expectation to grow the portfolio through bringing more of the bank's proposition to your existing clients and winning new clients.
• You’ll play an integral part in the local market, developing business opportunity, and representing the group in the professional community.
• You’ll be an ambassador for change, an early adopter of tools designed to improve the client and colleague experience and support your wider team and region to work towards their goals.

What You’ll Need

• Results focused: You’ll take personal responsibility for delivering results, whilst readily accepting change and focusing on client outcomes.
• New client acquisition: Highly proficient at building and maintaining productive relationships with external professionals and adept at winning good volumes of higher value new client relationships.
• Specialist knowledge: Uses specialist credit and sector knowledge, along with all available digital tools, to deliver excellent client experiences. Identifying ways to grow income, balance sheet and market share, whilst always ensuring the effective management of risk.
• People: Have a growth mindset and be keen to adopt and use key enablers that enhance the client experience and demonstrate the value a Face to Face Relationship Manager brings to a client’s business.
• Risk management: You’ll demonstrate strong risk management skills, requiring attention to detail and a pro-active approach to anticipating potential risk.

Please note if you’re shortlisted for an interview for this role, you may be given 48 hours’ notice. We encourage you to review your emails regularly and be prepared for swift scheduling.

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 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.

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’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.

With 320 years under our belt, we’re used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you’ll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.