Graduate Sales Broker

Northampton, United Kingdom | Posted on 03/08/2026

An incredible opportunity for a motivated, driven and commercially astute graduate to rapidly progress their career within a fast growing, meritocratic and dynamic finance firm.

As a Graduate Finance Broker, you will be contacting potential clients through outbound calls, positioning Portman Finance Group’s financial solutions in a consultative manner and passing qualified leads to our busy Sales Team.

With an annual starting salary ranging from £36,000 to £50,000 (depending on academic background and interview performance), we are looking for someone who has a natural flair to build telephone rapport alongside the ability to drive sales processes to completion and achieve key KPI targets in a highly competitive and lucrative environment.

Please do not apply if you consider yourself more of an analyst as this role will not be right for you.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outbound sales activity to establish rapport and interest with potential new clients, ultimately building a pipeline and securing new business opportunities;
• With a customer-centric approach, qualify client interest through a consultative sales process to understand their commercial standing and position Portman’s financial solutions;
• Write and prepare proposal documentation and credit applications as and when required, including working with clients to gather appropriate financial and non-financial paperwork;
• Record all sales activity in our CRM;
• Build and maintain a pipeline of live opportunities; and
• Any other appropriate job duties in line with the associated skill and experience of the post holder.

You can find more details of our graduate programme under the Careers - Graduates & Internships tab on our website.

Requirements

Skills & Experience Required

• Motivated and driven individuals with a passion for sales;
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely whilst building rapport and trust;
• Minimum of ABB at A Level and a 2.1 or above University Degree across any discipline;
• Resilient with the capability to work under pressure in a fast-paced meritocratic environment;
• Strong commercial acumen, with an interest in business;
• Dynamic individuals with an entrepreneurial, self-starter approach; and
• Positive and engaging telephone manner.
• Personal Attributes
• Success and winning motivated. If coming third is good enough for you, please do not apply;
• Excellent written and oral communications skills;
• Ability to build strong and effective working relationships at all levels, including senior stakeholders;
• Adept at problem-solving with a can-do attitude;
• Strong organisational skills with a high attention to detail;
• Ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks at any given time; and
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as being a team player.
• Very competitivesalary and incentives;
• Rapid careerprogression;
• Vibrant officeculture with break out lounge, bar and corporate days out;
• 1-1 training andmentoring;
• Meritocraticculture; and

Portman Finance Group wasestablished in 2007 to provide UK SMEs with access to a range of financeoptions under one roof.

We have now arranged over £1.5 billion in funding for over 20,000 companies.

Portman secure financefor businesses of all sizes via our own lending and panel of over 40 partners.

We offer flexible payment terms, reducing large initial outlays and protectingcash-flow, and are one of the largest privately owned Broker-Lenders in the UK.

Portman work with any type of private sectorbusiness.

We have a long and successful history financing a variety of assets, quickly and easily.

If you’re looking to lease or purchase further equipment, release equity or simply borrow, Portman can provide your business with thefinance it needs.

Pleasenote that as part of the recruitment process a criminal records check/credithistory check will be carried out by an authorised third party.

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