SimplyBiz Mortgages are one of the UK’s top mortgage clubs, supporting over 4,300 directly authorised mortgage intermediaries with award winning compliance and business support services.

We are recruiting for a Business Development Manager to join our growing SimplyBiz Mortgages team. In this role, you’ll be developing and identifying business opportunities to increase the profitability and awareness of our Mortgage Club.

This role is field based and will cover North England so you’ll ideally be located in this area.

What you'll be doing

• Conducting regular business review meetings with member firms
• Conducting regular proactive call out days to enhance and add value to our members
• Identifying new opportunities within our partners proposition to benefit our member firms
• Building and leveraging strong member firm relationships
• Positively influencing business levels for mortgages, protection and general insurance
• Delivering profitable volume growth
• Supporting the Mortgage Helpdesk when required
• Controlling and running Mortgage Events, virtual and face to face, effectively obtaining positive feedback from members and presenters
• Working collaboratively with internal departments to identify new business opportunities for members, and improve member retention
• Working with internal staff to identify opportunities to increase membership levels to Mortgage Club and Simply Protect and its GI proposition
• Working collaboratively and effectively with internal members of staff to enhance our member’s overall experience with SimplyBiz
• Comprehensively troubleshooting any problems, challenges or complaints
• Supporting the Senior Key Account Manager in achieving targets and KPI’s set for the Mortgage Club

What you need to succeed

• A good working knowledge of the Protection, Mortgage, and General Insurance market place
• CeMap Qualified
• Previous working knowledge and experience in the Intermediary sector
• Ability to motivate and influence Directly Authorised intermediaries
• Previous experience of Business Development or Account management in the Financial Sector
• Able to coordinate effective training sessions and bespoke presentations, to varying audiences of varying sizes
• Ability to proactively overcome objections efficiently and effectively

What we offer you

• Happy to talk flexible working
• 4 x life assurance (with the ability to flex up or down)
• 3 x Critical illness insurance
• 75% income protection cover
• Medical cash plan (with the ability to flex up or down)
• 25 days annual leave 🏖️, increasing by 1 day per year up to 29 days
• Option to purchase up to an additional week of holiday
• An extra day off to celebrate your birthday, plus an Amazon voucher to treat yourself 🥳
• Group personal pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eyecare vouchers and flu vaccination
• Flexible benefits pot 💰 - so you can select the benefits that suit you and your wellbeing
• A range of ‘flexible’ benefits which can be selected via our benefits platform Including Cycle to Work 🚲
• 35 hour standard working week
• Enhanced sick pay, maternity and paternity pay, and access to our modern people-centric policies such as our ‘Flexible Working Promise’ and ‘Dress for the Right Mindset’ policy

Fintel plc and all the businesses within it adopt a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination on any of the protected grounds in the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.

For these reasons we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.