Account Mananger in Poole

Let’s grow together! A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re a skilled relationship builder, account manager or internal sales person looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you! We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential.

What you’ll be doing:

• Generate new business and develop existing relationships in your designated Professions sectors, promoting the provision of loans predominantly through tele-sales activity supported by in person networking and external event connections.
• Maintain accurate customer contact records on CRM whilst maintaining targeted call volumes.
• There will be a strong focus on opening doors and generating new business which will be account managed thereafter.
• Preparing applications for credit to underwriters gathering information from public records and data provided by clients.
• Work closely with sales support functions and the sales team.
• Develop personal knowledge and industry awareness from completion of specific training or attendance of industry events.
• Periodically, you will join networking events and conferences that will require attendance overnight or at different locations from your daily office.
• You will maintain and grow a personal brand within the professions sector via social media.
• Assist in the development and execution of marketing activity, mail shots and calling campaigns.

About You:

What you’ll bring to the team:

• A strong, results-driven mindset with a clear focus on hitting and exceeding targets.
• Proven ability to build and maintain long-term, mutually beneficial introducer relationships.
• A genuine drive to stand out, take ownership, and outperform expectations.
• Solid understanding of an introducer-led or intermediary sales environment.
• Knowledge of credit and underwriting principles (desirable, but not essential).

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page. Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.

Working hours: This is a full time (8.30am – 5pm) Monday to Friday - hybrid working based out of our Poole office. There will be a requirement to travel, attend meetings and industry events from time to time.

Inclusion: As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave.
• Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate.
• Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees.
• Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension.
• Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment.
• Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more.
• Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year.
• Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover.

Be flexible: We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself: As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard: We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well: We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better: We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.