Join us as a Business Relationship Director, where you’ll be primarily responsible for lending to professional landlords, networking with customers, meeting existing clients, and growing the customer portfolio.
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
To be successful as Business Relationship Director, you should have experience with:
* Complex Lending experience
* Experience of liaising with external stakeholders and clients
* Proven Networking Skills
* Ability to prioritize your own workload
Some other highly valued skills may include:
* Self-starter with strong communication skills
* Real estate experience
Purpose of the Role
To establish and nurture profitable partnerships with both corporate and individual clients. It's the bridge between the bank's offerings and clients' needs, ensuring mutual benefit and long-term success.
Accountabilities
* Management of client relationships to identify clients' financial goals, challenges, and risk tolerance to support the analysis of data obtained from various sources, including the investment portfolio and cash flow, to identify trends, insights, areas for improvement, and additional services to support client needs.
* Research and understanding of the client's industry trends, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment to inform strategic recommendations.
* Design of customized solutions that address the client's specific needs and objectives, incorporating a range of products and services from the bank's portfolio.
* Communication of the value proposition of proposed solutions, justification of recommendations, and negotiation of terms that are beneficial for both the client and the bank.
* Provision of guidance to clients to support their financial decisions, offering expert investment advice, risk management, and wealth management strategies support, and updates on market trends to ensure a positive and continuous relationship.
* Assessment of financial, legal, and operational risks associated with client relationships, and implementation of measures to minimize potential losses.
* Documentation of all client interactions, transactions, and agreements to ensure transparency and auditability, and communicate findings effectively to support product development, service offerings, and the overall bank strategy.
* Monitoring of client satisfaction, revenue generated, and other relevant metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of relationship management efforts.
Vice President Expectations
* To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counseling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
* If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
* Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
* Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
* Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
* Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
* Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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