Business Development Manager Intermediaries in Birmingham

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Manager to join BM Solutions as part of our Intermediaries team. Intermediaries is a diverse team who educate and support mortgage brokers and financial advisors to meet customer needs with Buy To Let mortgage products. The environment is rewarding and fast paced as we set ourselves high standards and your ability to build relationships will be very important.

As a Business Development Manager, you'll 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 and 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 will educate and support your brokers to help them meet the needs of their clients.

We would expect you to have significant knowledge of the Private rental sector and experience working as a BDM in the Buy to let/specialist lending market would be advantageous.

Location & Ways of working: We are exploring candidates across England for this role. Travel across the country would be required. Our Business Development Managers are expected to work flexibly, splitting most of 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:

• Deliver specialised support and service for both new and existing accounts and respond to complex customer enquiries.
• Manage an established territory providing you with a tremendous opportunity to get results and hit ambitious targets in this exciting sector.
• Build collaborative relationships with mortgage intermediary partners.
• Carry out a variety of broker appointments and develop business both virtually and face to face.
• Build your knowledge from our existing expertise in the BTL mortgage market and develop your role to become a key asset within our regional team.
• 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 strong 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 Management Information efficiently to help you co-ordinate & prioritise your workload.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills including both 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.

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 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’re 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.

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'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 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.