Commercial Lending, Mortgages
Regional Sales Manager (Midlands and South)
Job ID: 010528
Location: Bradford, UK, BD5 8LJ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Competitive
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced intermediary leader to join our highly successful and evolving Accord Sales Team!
About the role
As a Regional Sales Manager, you will lead a team of telephony and field-based development managers, executing the strategy for the Accord Intermediary business while supporting the broader mortgage distribution division. Additionally, you will lead the implementation of Accord’s Inclusion & Diversity strategy, ensuring these principles are embedded in business operations. Other responsibilities include:
Coaching and developing the team, ensuring that lending quality and service objectives are achieved and support all direct reports to build and continue strong effective long-term relationships with intermediaries and internal colleagues.
Understanding the strategic direction of Intermediary Distribution and its regional impact.
Developing comprehensive business plans (short, medium, and long term) to meet mortgage goals and enhance skills.
Ensuring the business development team supports sales and operations to achieve lending, quality, and service targets, collaborating with Underwriting and other teams.
Partner with all departments to deliver a top-tier customer experience based on simplicity, empathy, and trust.
Support the retail broker program, retail sales network, and other cross-functional areas.
Act as the first line of defence to ensure compliance with Accord’s terms, policies, governance framework, and inclusion & diversity charter.
Lead the Future Skills development of your team to achieve our current and future goals.
Please Note: This role covers the Midlands and South (excluding London & South East), and includes a company car allowance.
About you
We are seeking an experienced leader with a deep understanding of inclusive leadership within the intermediary industry. In addition, you will also have:
Previous experience in mortgage sales including successful management of large national/regional accounts ideally in the intermediary sector
Sales, negotiation and presentation skills to senior levels i.e. CEO, CFO & Business Owners
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills internal and external with the ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders.
Understanding of proposition development and risk
Proven ability to foster and manage relationships effectively.
Excellent knowledge of lending products, criteria, systems and regulatory procedures and of the wider market developments, including competitor activity.
The ability to demonstrate high proficiency in digital literacy.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
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