Relationship Director, SME Banking, Essex Basildon, East of England, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Basildon, East of England, England
78634 - 92510 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Thursday 14 September 2023
Salary Range
£78,634 - £92,510Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join the hard-working and successful Essex Team in SME Banking!We provide outstanding support for businesses within the SME sector and this exciting role is predominately in the Trading sector. We're passionate about looking after our customers. Are you? If so, we could be a great fit!'
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Relationship Director
SALARY: £78,000 to £95,000
LOCATION(S): Essex
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Relationship Director to join the hard-working and successful Essex & Hertfordshire team in SME Banking. We provide outstanding support for local businesses by offering the funding, support and encouragement they need to grow. This exciting role is predominately in the Trading sector.
Joining the Essex & Hertfordshire team, you'll be responsible for supporting clients with all their banking needs including lending, deposits and a wide range of other services. There is an expectation to grow the portfolio by promoting the bank with professionals and key influencers in the Essex and Hertfordshire area, to develop business opportunities and bring new clients to Lloyds Banking Group. You'll also be responsible for handling the risk and compliance of the portfolio.
We're passionate about looking after our customers, are you? If so, we could be a great fit!
What would you be doing?
- Providing excellent service to our Clients, putting them at the heart of what you do, adding value at every interaction and becoming a “trusted advisor”.
- Promoting the bank with professionals and key influencers through your knowledge of the local market
- Providing a range of funding solutions to our clients from our Term Lending and Working Capital product range tailoring them to Client needs
- Building relationships with Group Partner companies and through them bring the whole bank to the client delivering products to meet their needs.
- Handling the risk and compliance of your client portfolio
Why Lloyds Banking Group?
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
- You'll have extensive Commercial/ Relationship Banking experience with a strong lending capability; able to assess to credit risk of the corporate client
- You'll also need to demonstrate how you're wired into local networks with extensive connections in the professional space and use these for business development opportunities
- You'll be highly proficient at building and maintaining productive relationships with external professionals and adept at winning good volumes of higher value new client relationships.
- You'll use your specialist credit and sector knowledge along with all available digital tools to deliver excellent client experiences whilst identifying ways to grow income, balance sheet and market share and handling associated risks
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%
- A discretionary performance share award
- 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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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.
