Business Development Manager - North West England

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Bank plc invites applications for a Business Development Manager – North West, a key field-based role supporting Halifax Intermediaries across the North West. You’ll build partnerships with mortgage brokers, drive growth and deliver strong outcomes for customers in a high-visibility role within a leading UK lender.

You’ll manage a portfolio across specified postcodes, travel regularly across the region, and split time between client meetings on the road and working from home.

Qualifications

• Strong business development and/or relationship management skills within an intermediated environment.
• Good understanding of the buy to let mortgage market landscape and regulatory changes.
• Experience in financial services, preferably mortgages.
• Ability to read, understand and use data to prioritise workload.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (face to face, telephone, virtual).
• Understanding of risk, compliance and regulatory changes.

Responsibilities

• Build & maintain strong external relationships within a well-established territory.
• Collaborate with partners to develop business opportunities for growth.
• Educate and support brokers to meet client needs.
• Become an authority in the housing market with focus on residential mortgages within the team.
• Provide specialised support for new and existing accounts and respond to complex inquiries.
• Manage an established territory to hit ambitious targets.
• Build relationships with mortgage intermediary partners.
• Conduct broker appointments and develop business both virtually and face to face.
• Develop knowledge from housing mortgage market expertise and grow as a regional asset.
• Educate intermediaries on identifying risks and breaches and manage accordingly.

Skills

Relationship management

Buy to let mortgages

Data analysis

Presentation skills

Regulatory knowledge

CeMap (beneficial)

Education

CeMAP qualification

Job description

End Date Monday 21 September 2026

Salary Range £61,344 - £68,160 We support flexible working – Flexible Working Options Job Share, Unable to Offer Agile Options

Job Description Summary

A rare opportunity to join one of the UK's leading intermediary lenders as a Business Development Manager for the North West. As the face of Halifax Intermediaries in your territory, you'll work with some of the region's most influential mortgage brokers, helping them grow their businesses while delivering great outcomes for customers. Combining relationship management, commercial focus and market expertise, you'll identify growth opportunities, develop strong partnerships and drive performance in a highly visible role within a market-leading brand. If you're passionate about the mortgage market, thrive on building relationships and want to make a real impact, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing team where BDM vacancies rarely arise.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Business Development Manager - North West

SALARY: £61,300 - £68,100

LOCATION(S): Scotland wide

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Field-based/Remote

Location & Ways of Working For this role, you'll ideally be based in the North West, with responsibility for a client portfolio across the M, FY, PR, WN, WA and BL postcode areas. Regular travel across the region, including the Lake District, will be required. Our Business Development Managers work flexibly, splitting their time between meeting clients face‑to‑face on the road and working from home.

Some of the activities you’ll be involved in are:

Responsibilities

• You'll be required to build & maintain strong external relationships within a well-established territory.
• We'll encourage you to collaborate with key partners to develop business opportunities for increased income and growth.
• Building and strengthening existing relationships as well as developing new ones you with educate and support your brokers to help them meet the needs of their clients.
• We'll support you in becoming an authority in the housing market with a specific focus on Residential mortgages and a key member of our current BDM team.
• You’ll deliver specialised support and service for both new and existing accounts and respond to complex customer enquiries.
• Managing an established territory the role would provide you with a tremendous opportunity to get results and hit ambitious targets in this exciting sector.
• You’ll build collaborative relationships with mortgage intermediary partners.
• We'll expect you to carry out a variety of broker appointments and develop business both virtually and face to face.
• You’ll have the opportunity to build your knowledge from our existing expertise in the housing mortgage market, and you’ll be encouraged to develop your role to become a key asset within our regional team.
• It will be important to keep track of risks within the intermediary mortgage market and your broker panel; educate intermediaries in how to identify and overcome existing and emerging risks and manage any breaches.

What you’ll need

• Strong business development and/or relationship management skills, preferably within an intermediated environment
• A good understanding of the buy to let mortgage market landscape covering regulatory, technical, and legislative changes and opportunities.
• Experience of working in financial services, preferably an area focused on mortgages.
• Ability to read, understand and use data effectively to help your co‑ordinate & prioritise your workload.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills including face to face, telephone and in virtual environments.
• In depth understanding of risk, compliance, and regulatory changes & opportunities.
• Ideally A CeMap Qualification (or working towards) would be beneficial but not essential.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

About us 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.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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 invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run 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.