Business Development Director - Mid Corporate - South

Do you have the passion and hunger to support new clients and at the same time help grow Lloyds Bank's market share? If so, we have a great opportunity for a Business Development Director to join our team supporting clients in the Manufacturing, industrials, and wholesale (MIW) and professional services sectors, with turnover between £25m - £100m across London. You'll drive the growth and expansion of our business and identify new business opportunities, building, and maintaining relationships with key partners, and developing strategies to increase revenue and market share. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team and will provide the opportunity to play a crucial role in shaping the future of our business and driving our strategic initiatives. What Will You Be Doing

• Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities, including the planning and execution of contact strategies enabling you to win new to bank mandates.
• Understanding client strategies to provide the best possible solutions to support in a highly competitive marketplace.
• Building and maintaining relationships with partners, both inside and outside the company.
• Developing and implementing strategies to increase revenue and market share.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business growth.
• Monitoring market trends and competitor activities.
• Negotiate pricing, terms, and structures that benefit all parties involved.
  
  Validated experience in business development or a similar role within corporate or commercial banking.
• Deep understanding of the manufacturing, industrials, and wholesale sector alongside professional services.
• Excellent credit and sector knowledge with the ability to quickly identify and understand complex problems and solutions to support.
• Demonstrated expertise in analytical and critical thinking.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  
  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 been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our 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.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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