Our client is a successful, established mortgage lender based in the East Midlands who are recruiting for an Account Manager to join the Intermediary Sales team. Reporting in to the National Development Manager, you will be responsible for developing relationships with introducers such as mortgage brokers, packagers, large distributors and building / housing associations at a local and National level.
The main focus of the role is:
- To actively contribute to the achievement of business objectives and standards for intermediary introduced mortgage business
- To actively and positively promote the lender and its products and services
- To produce business propositions for consideration by the Commercial Development Executive, Product Committee and Board
- To deliver sales revenue, product mix and margin targets at an acceptable level of risk#
- To develop relationships with mortgage brokers, packagers, large distributors, builders / housing associations etc. to promote the lender and encourage partnering and business opportunities
- To assist the Intermediary Sales Support (ISS) Team handling broker calls and processing decisions in principle when volumes are high and to cover holidays and other absences. To keep the ISS CRM system and logs up to date with details of enquiries and other sales activity
- To achieve targets of new business within budgeted margins, risk profiles and income drivers by effectively communicating information on our products, criteria and lending policy
Skills & Experience required are:
- Previous experience in a client facing role, ideally with business development responsibilities
- Strong awareness of the UK residential mortgage market
- Underwriting knowledge would be an advantage
- Excellent relationship building and customer service skills
- Strong administration and organisation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
As this role involves a lot of travelling, you must have a UK driving license. Your time will be split between office based (Mansfield) and nationwide travel.