Business Development Executive

City + Capital; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An investment house and property finance lender is seeking a Business Development Executive in London. The role involves assisting brokers with loan applications and supporting sales strategies. Candidates should have property finance or financial services experience and be ambitious. A basic salary of £30k–£50k is offered, alongside uncapped commission potential and bonuses.

Benefits

Uncapped commission potential

Discretionary bonus scheme

Development and training opportunities

Qualifications

• Previous property finance experience preferred.
• Experience in financial services sales considered.
• Understanding of property loan structures is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Assist brokers and borrowers with loan applications.
• Work with external BDM on strategy and client engagements.
• Support the pipeline and facilitate events/meetings.

Skills

Property finance experience

Sales/relationship experience

Managing brokers or borrowers

Understanding of property loan structures

Achieving sales targets

Job description

City + Capital are currently supporting a fast growing & highly respected investment house and commercial property finance lender who are on a huge growth curve, driven by strong investment, and ambitions to be the leading player in their sector.

We are delighted to be supporting the continued growth of their award‑winning business development function with a view to identifying an ambitious, career‑focussed and forward‑thinking Business Development Executive who can join the team at a genuinely exciting time.

Our client is targeting £1bn in lending this year which is being driven by strong funding lines and a diverse & highly sought after range of property finance loans, ideal for supporting the needs of property professionals, such as developers and investors, with access to debt for key projects.

Available solutions for borrowers include a range of bridging finance options, development exit loans, commercial term mortgages and BTL propositions. Our client is also highly renowned for creating bespoke loans to meet requirements and offer a broad range of loan sizes, from c£250k to £50m+.

Notably, our client has doubled the size of their loan book & UK business four times in the past four years. They are aiming to achieve the same feat this year and to achieve this, the growth of their internal sales team is critical to success.

Role Overview
As Business Development Executive you will assist brokers and borrowers with their requirements. This will include discussing and preparing new loan applications, ready for assessment by the underwriting team. You will be partnered with an external BDM with whom you will share a patch.

You will work closely with your BDM on patch strategy to identify and engage with key broker targets, to push the active pipeline forward and support in terms of aspects such as events and client/broker meetings.

This role would be an excellent position for someone who has begun to develop their career within property finance or financial services and who is ambitious, looking to identify a business that is highly renowned for what they do and that offer plenty of development & training to increase your knowledge and success quickly.

Our client's growth has been built on a strong and proven promote‑from‑within policy and this is something that will not change. Successful candidates may face opportunities to propel their career standing & salary forward, as excellent performance is delivered. This has been the case for some of the existing team and natural options for progression to external BDM or Underwriter roles are real & prevalent, where excellent performance is delivered.

Required Experience

• Previous property finance experience preferred
• Other financial services sales/relationship experience considered
• Experience of managing brokers or borrowers directly preferred
• An understanding of property loan structures ideal, though not essential
• A proven track record of achieving targets set in a sales environment

Ideal Personal Attributes

• Confident communicator, both verbally and in writing
• Happy working in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• Results oriented and committed to achieving targets
• Strongly influential
• Ambitious and keen to drive career forward within

The client is looking at paying a basic salary of between £30k – £50k for the ideal candidate, which will be relevant to experience. This will be complemented by an outstanding uncapped commission potential that could see you more than double your salary in earnings for attainment of lending objectives, alongside your BDM. Salary will be complemented with access to the lender’s annual discretionary bonus scheme and benefits package too, which is an additional bonus structure to the performance‑based measures.

This role is based in our client’s lovely Mayfair offices, Monday – Friday, with some requirement to travel your patch and to events.

Due to the nature of who our client is and the exciting potential to progress, we are not expecting these vacancies to be on the market for long. Therefore, if of interest then we look forward to your application as soon as possible.

We will then be able to review your CV and any accompanying cover letter and to get back to you in due course. We look forward to hearing from you.

The City + Capital Team