Corporate Real Estate Sales Director - Yorkshire in Leeds

Benefits

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

Company Description

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

Job Description

As a Corporate Sales Director, you will be responsible for originating direct corporate real estate sales. You will have a significant track record of driving ‘new to Group’ business opportunities across your network of corporate customers, professional sector firms i.e. accountants, solicitors, banks, wealth managers, corporate finance firms to help us expand our lending across the UK. As an entrepreneurial business with an appetite to lend, we will give you the opportunity to build your profile across the region and support your network to achieve their ambitions. We’re specifically looking for people in the North Yorkshire region.

As a Corporate Sales Director, we are looking for someone to:

• Build and leverage your direct network to develop relationships at all levels within the corporate sector across your area, with specific focus on professional sector firms (outside of the broker/intermediary market).
• Use product knowledge and your own drive to help deliver commercial growth targets
• Develop a robust, strategic plan to focus on ‘new to Group’ business utilising PR, social media and networking events, alongside a structured contact strategy
• Actively manage the sales pipeline in order to maximise fundings and deliver to corporate customers
• Create and implement defined strategies and plans with senior managers, telephone sales, operational teams and marketing to effectively and efficiently maximise business opportunities in the region
• Regularly attend appropriate meetings and events, conveying a professional image of the company across defined contacts and partners, so that mutually beneficial relationships are established
• Contribute to the delivery of a sales plan for new lending origination at individual and team level.

Qualifications

Essential

• Established network of Corporate property and professional sector contacts that are able to introduce transactions typically between £1M-£20M
• Strong business development skills, with proven ability to drive performance from key accounts, and develop new relationships
• Must be resilient and comfortable with working towards quarterly sales targets
• Significant knowledge and experience of the financial and property sectors
• Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously and as a team
• Previous experience within a field based role

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you, in regard to, your suitability for the role.

Additional Information

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process. Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.