Country: United Kingdom
Join our community:
At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. We help our customers at the moments that matter most and champion businesses to help them to grow sustainably. That’s why we’re building a community to be a digital bank with a human touch and deliver an outstanding customer experience living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.
You will actively communicate and promote the Santander UK and Group vision, objectives, and structures so that the team understands the wider direction; understand and promote how the wider bank (including One Europe) and its functions operate; maintain and develop a relevant understanding around the UK Banking sector and in particular Corporate Banking.
You will lead a team of Relationship Directors and Managers in Corporate Clients, to sustainably achieve all the objectives for the portfolio of clients you will managing, meeting financial expectations and ensuring clients receive a great experience, including timely intervention when required.
You will also be responsible and accountable for driving primacy, growing the portfolio and meeting all governance requirements such as credit stewardship and financial crime.
The difference you’ll make:
- Driving a proactive and collaborative environment across CCB, to build a positive, open and inclusive culture, helping colleagues to be at their best.
- Provide your clients with an experience that is second to none.
- Creating and delivering a growth strategy including relationships with clients, prospects, and professionals.
- Deliver against agreed OKRs and KPIs. This will include NPS through internal and external sources.
- Driving high levels of client insight and creating advocates of the Corporate Bank through the teams’ portfolio, as well as building relationships with key influencers and professionals across the sectors and to positively develop Santander’s market profile and presence.
- Coach a team of RDs and RMs to improve their skills and knowledge, helping to build an excellent team, fostering the contribution of ideas and building of alignment among people.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience of developing and driving a regional business development strategy, to deliver the Corporate Bank’s ambitious growth, through existing client network and intermediaries.
- High level of credit underwriting skills, as well as structuring skills and a deep knowledge of related risk and other financial products available to the corporate market.
- Proven track record of directly originating profitable new business in the Corporate Banking arena.
- Excellent presentation, negotiation, analytical, and report-writing skills.
It would also be nice for you to have:
- A demonstration that you are embracing your own personal development, through a continuous learning environment and ethos, leveraging internal resources.
What else you need to know:
- This role is based in Triton Square.
- We want our people to thrive at work and home and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
- If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.
- We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.
Inclusion
At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.
How we’ll reward you:
As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs. For part-time / contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your working hours / contract duration.
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
- We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
- £8,500 car allowance per year.
- Company funded private medical insurance for you and your family.
- Company funded Health screenings every two years.
- Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
- Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
- As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services
What to do next:
If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.
If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at
[email protected].
Additional Information:
We welcome applications on the understanding that, should you be offered this role, there may be no relocation package available. Santander will pay the employer mandatory government fees that are required to pay in connection with visa sponsorship. You may be liable for your own personal employee immigration and relocation costs.
