Lead origination and distribution

• Build a diverse, high-quality pipeline through brokers, introducers, direct borrowers and strategic partners.
• Originate and manage a personal pipeline of transactions alongside the team’s wider revenue targets, delivering a first-class customer experience and supporting disciplined use of available funding capacity.
• Develop key accounts and relationships that generate consistent, well-structured lending opportunities.
• Set clear commercial priorities for the business development team and improve conversion from enquiry to completion.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of borrower demand, competitor activity and emerging opportunities.

Drive product and process innovation

• Identify opportunities to strengthen the residential and semi-commercial bridging proposition, including refurbishment and revolving credit.
• Use market feedback and lending data to inform recommendations on products, pricing and lending criteria.
• Make effective use of the business’s award-winning in-house software to improve case visibility, speed and customer experience.
• Work with technology, underwriting and operations colleagues to simplify processes while maintaining effective controls.

Oversee credit, funding and delivery

• Ensure origination remains aligned with agreed credit criteria, funding terms and risk appetite.
• Manage the pipeline against available credit lines and contribute to plans for additional funding capacity.
• Maintain senior oversight of the lending journey from initial enquiry through underwriting, drawdown, monitoring and repayment.
• Bring commercial and operational teams together to resolve obstacles and maintain momentum on live transactions.
• Monitor portfolio performance, service standards and emerging risks, escalating issues promptly.

Lead the division

• Lead, develop and grow teams across business development, underwriting and operations.
• Establish clear objectives, performance measures and management reporting.
• Build effective relationships with funders, suppliers, shareholders and the wider executive team.
• Ensure systems, processes and controls support growth and meet legal and regulatory obligations.

ExCo and institutional exposure

• Build senior relationships with the banks, institutional funders and other capital providers supporting the Bridging Division.
• Act as a commercial point of contact for funding partners, presenting the lending pipeline, portfolio performance and opportunities for future growth.
• Work with executive leadership and finance colleagues to assess funding capacity, facility utilisation and the case for additional credit lines.
• Provide the Executive Committee with regular updates on origination, financial performance, market developments and emerging risks.
• Participate in senior meetings with funders, shareholders and strategic partners, contributing commercial insight to decisions on funding, products and growth.
• Represent the division in Board and ExCo discussions, make well-supported recommendations and take ownership of agreed actions.

Skills and experience

You will bring around 10 years’ experience in the UK bridging finance market, supported by broader experience in property lending or banking. You will have held senior leadership responsibilities, originated and converted business, and developed a thorough understanding of underwriting, funding and the full lending lifecycle.

You will also demonstrate:

• Established relationships across the broker, introducer and property finance markets.
• Experience owning a lending strategy, budget and commercial performance.
• The presence and credibility to represent a division publicly and build its national profile.
• Sound judgement on pricing, credit quality, funding capacity and risk-adjusted returns.
• The ability to lead commercial and operational teams through growth and change.
• Confidence presenting to executive leaders, Board members and shareholders.
• Strong analytical, negotiation and communication skills.
• A hands-on approach suited to a growing specialist lending business.

The impact you will make

You will determine how the Bridging Division presents itself, where it competes and how it converts funding capacity into profitable lending. This is a mandate to build a stronger national profile and a more scalable business.

Compensation and progression

The role offers a base salary of £125,000–£150,000, an annual bonus opportunity of 50%–75% and additional benefits. The business sees a potential path to a broader executive mandate over the next two to three years. Subject to progression and performance, indicative future total compensation could be £275,000–£300,000 per year.