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Senior Manager - Residential Mortgages

Job ID: 010105

Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ

Job type: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: Competitive

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Senior Manager Residential Mortgages

We’re looking for a senior leader to take full accountability for the performance of our Residential mortgage business.

This is a general manager style role: responsible for setting direction, making commercial and customer trade offs, and ensuring delivery across the end to end Residential mortgage lifecycle. You will shape where and how we compete in the market, balance growth and sustainability, and ensure strong, fair outcomes for our members.

You’ll be accountable for Residential market participation, product and pricing strategy, customer outcomes, balance sheet performance and operational delivery. While the role works through senior colleagues in Distribution, Credit Risk, Pricing and Operations, accountability for outcomes is clear and sits firmly with this position.

This is a highimpact leadership role for someone who enjoys ownership, judgement and delivery at scale.

About The Role

  • Running the Residential mortgage business as a complete commercial and customer proposition not just a product set.

  • Making deliberate choices about where we participate across first time buyers, home movers, remortgage and retention, and where we choose not to.

  • Balancing growth, margin, capital, risk appetite and Consumer Duty in live decision making.

  • Translating strategy into execution across a complex, regulated operating environment.

  • Providing visible senior leadership across the Homes business and externally with key stakeholders.

Key accountabilities

  • Set and lead the Residential mortgage strategy, including market participation, propositions, pricing and retention.

  • Own overall performance, including commercial outcomes, customer experience, and sustainable balance sheet returns.

  • Lead crossfunctional delivery across Distribution, Credit Risk and Operations, ensuring propositions are executed effectively from origination through to servicing.

  • Embed high standards of governance, risk management and Consumer Duty, ensuring customer outcomes are central to decisions.

  • Lead, develop and inspire senior leaders, building a highperforming, inclusive and accountable culture.

About you

  • A senior leader with clear ownership for both commercial and customer outcomes, comfortable carrying end to end accountability.

  • Deep experience in Residential mortgage lending, with strong understanding of pricing, propositions, distribution and retention.

  • Proven judgement in balancing growth, risk, regulation and long term value.

  • A credible leader in regulated environments, confident embedding Consumer Duty into everyday decision making.

  • An experienced change leader, able to turn strategy into delivery through influence and collaboration.

Our commercial success

Here at Yorkshire Building Society, we’re blending a commitment to doing the right thing with genuine commercial success. We’re owned by our 3 million members, and we manage their £40 billion assets wisely. Whether it's through our savings, mortgage or commercial lending products, our Commercial Team creates and delivers the products our members need to help real life happen. And drive our commercial success.

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…

  • Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)

  • On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)

  • Access to brilliant health benefits

  • Life assurance at 6 times your salary

  • 25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)

  • Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket

  • Wellbeing resources and tools

  • Retail and Leisure discounts

Find out more about what we offer

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.

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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.
Learn about developing your career here

Our 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:

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Our ways of working and flexibility

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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 Working

Hear from our people

Our Underwriters have the knowledge and flexibility to do the right thing for the customer.

Francis

Senior Manager - Customer Services, Bradford

Meet the Recruiter(s)

Jessica Wilkinson

Executive Resourcing Specialist

Connect with Jessica Wilkinson

Since being at YBS I have been fortunate enough to have gained experience recruiting in most of our head office functions including People, Risk, Finance, Commercial and Audit.

I am currently working in our Exec Resourcing team working on senior level recruitment in Risk, Commercial and Internal Audit and would love to hear from you if you are interested in senior opportunities in these areas!

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