Business Banking Manager

Bank of Ireland Group plc; Magherafelt; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Flexible working

24 days annual leave

Pension contributions

Job summary

Bank of Ireland is seeking a Senior Business Manager to promote the brand in the marketplace and drive new business opportunities. You will support credit‑heavy SME transactions while maintaining high service standards and managing risk, with strong engagement with intermediaries and partners in Northern Ireland.

The role is hybrid, based in Magherafelt, with regular in-person collaboration and external networking to grow market share and strengthen relationships within the regional business

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business banking and handling high‑value SME transactions.
• Strong credit management and regulatory risk awareness.
• Excellent relationship building with customers and business partners.
• Solid understanding of the NI business market and local networks.

Responsibilities

• Promote Bank of Ireland in the marketplace and drive new business opportunities.
• Lead high-value, complex business transactions with customers.
• Collaborate with front-line teams and partners to achieve strategic objectives.
• Maintain high standards of risk management and customer service.
• Expand market share by identifying short- and long-term opportunities.
• Network extensively at external events and with intermediaries.

Skills

Business Banking

Credit management

Regulatory risk

Relationship building

Intermediary networks

Job description

What is the opportunity?

In this role you will assist the Senior Business Manager to promote the Bank of Ireland brand in the marketplace, driving new business opportunities and ensuring high standards of customer service for the existing portfolio. This is also an exciting opportunity to network extensively and attend external events, developing/maintaining the Bank's relationship with intermediaries and business partners!

• Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Full time
• Closing on: Sep 7 2026

Location of role - Magherafelt area

In This Role, You Will

• Proven experience of Business Banking with ability to lead high value, complex business transactions
• Ability to find opportunities and engage with customers, building mutually beneficial relationships, identifying short and long term business opportunities, with shown success in developing increased market share.
• Evidence of a collaborative approach in working with other front line teams and key partners in the achievement of business strategic objectives
• Confirmed experience in credit management, regulatory and operational risk and consistent track record in maintaining high standards
• Strong business insight, achieving results safely and growing the Bank's markets share and profile in a positive manner and demonstrating broad commercial knowledge.
• Solid understanding of the NI business market and a wide network of personal contacts within the regional business community.

What will make you stand out?

• Previous experience of running a portfolio of complex, high value SME and Property customers
• Ability to develop new business and fund complex, high value lending transactions
• Proven experience in credit management, regulatory and operational risk and consistent track record in maintaining high standards in these areas across a portfolio of complex, high value SME and Property customers.

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More About The Team

Business Banking Growth NI is a key part of the NI Franchise and is responsible for profitability, growing our share of and return from the business market by providing a comprehensive range of business products and excellent customer service in businesses across NI through dedicated business banking teams.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily at Magherafelt. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support collaboration and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?

Bank of Ireland prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 24 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program along with other fantastic supports. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Self
• Better together - Self
• Be Decisive - Self
• Take Ownership - Self
• Manage Risk - Self

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.