Business Development Manager

The Role

The Buckinghamshire Building Society is looking to recruit a highly self motivated individual to join our Mortgage Sales Team as a Business Development Manager covering predominantly Central London and Southern Region. In this challenging and varied role, you will be joining an organisation that is greatly respected within the Intermediary Mortgage Market, which has a unique lending approach that allows our underwriters to have discretion to agree mortgages up to £500k without any referral process. This is a great opportunity for an ambitious, enthusiastic person to join a top-level team.

The main responsibilities of the Business Development Manager will include:

• Identifying and delivering new opportunities, with a view to building and maintaining long term broker relationships.
• Attending conferences, exhibitions, sales meetings and round table events as necessary.
• Working with internal and external stakeholders to develop new business proposals that support the Society’s intermediary strategy.
• Acting as the primary point of contact and providing support to existing accounts over the telephone and in person, broadening relationships and maximising potential for growth of high-quality mortgage application volumes.
•  To increase the society’s exposure by developing existing and  identifying new relationships to increase the volumes levels of business in Central London

Identifying opportunities for campaigns and attend industry functions, such as association events and conferences, and providing feedback and information on market and creative trends.

The Person

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Demonstrated sales / business development  experience (essential)
• Completed CeMAP qualification – levels 1, 2 and 3 (desirable)
• Experience working in a comparable role (preferably within a similar financial services institution and similar location including Central London  )
• Commercially astute – able to provide insight into the wider Building Society arena
• Strong understanding and experience within the intermediary market including working with Mortgage Clubs and Networks
• The ability to provide insight into the wider Intermediary mortgage market
• Presentation skills (internal and external customers)
• Experience of remote working
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels (broker to board)
• The ability to assimilate information and make timely accurate decisions

This role requires a clean driving licence and a willingness to travel extensively throughout England and Wales including overnight stays as necessary.

The Benefits

• Hybrid working environment
• Competitive salary and pension scheme (employer pension contributions up to 10%)
• 10% discretionary bonus
• 25 days paid holiday plus 8 bank holidays
• Healthcare benefits (BUPA Cash Plan)
• 4 x annual salary life assurance
• Employee recognition scheme
• Professional training and development opportunities

About Us

The Buckinghamshire Building Society was founded in 1907 and as a Member owned Mutual, with no shareholders; our emphasis is firmly on providing value to existing and new Members through competitive savings and mortgage products. We source mortgages across the full range of product niches via a nationwide broker network and funded by a constantly evolving retail savings book. We have approximately 10,000 savings customers and nearly 1,600 borrowers. We are a highly progressive society with very strong capital and liquidity foundations, a strongly growing business based on evolving risk management, excellent regulatory relationships and striving to be the best small building society in the country. Our internal culture places enormous emphasis on teamwork behaviours. As a society we value tangible involvement with our local community and frequently support local events, schools, clubs and charities. Our motto of "doing the right thing" is at the heart of everything we do. 

The Buckinghamshire Building Society is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to actively promoting diversity and inclusion.

To Apply

For further information, please contact Claire Askham (Head of Mortgage Sales): claireaskham@bucksbs.co.uk or 01494 418257.

Please send all applications to: recruitment@bucksbs.co.uk