Coventry Building Society
Manager - Syndicated Lending
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About the role
Corporate & Commercial Banking is a growing part of Coventry Building Society Group, focused on building long-term relationships with corporate clients and delivering sustainable growth in line with our values.
The role holder will play a key role in managing and developing a portfolio of corporate clients, structuring and delivering complex lending solutions while working closely with Risk, Legal and Product teams. The position plays a key role in building relationships with clients, advisers and introducers, generating new business opportunities and delivering outcomes that balance customer needs, risk and return.
Working across the Group, the person in post will help drive business growth while acting as an ambassador for Coventry Building Society Group, combining commercial judgement with a collaborative and relationship-led approach.
We operate on a team-led hybrid approach with either Coventry or Manchester as your home office. This role involves occasional UK-wide travel to meet clients and represent the business in the market where appropriate.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Personal pension with matched contributions
- Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
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About you
You'll be naturally organised and a problem solver who is comfortable operating at a senior level and building trusted, long-term relationships. With strong commercial awareness and sound judgement, you'll enjoy working through complex situations, balancing risk and opportunity, and delivering positive outcomes for clients and the Society.
For this role you’ll need to have:
- Relationship management experience within Corporate or Commercial Banking.
- Strong corporate credit skills, including complex lending transactions.
- Ability to assess and manage risk effectively.
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to simplify complex information and influence decision-making.
- Strong customer focus, negotiation skills and commercial awareness.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations as required.
Experience in these areas would be helpful:
- Experience of syndicated lending transactions.
- Knowledge of specific sectors, broad financial industry knowledge and ESG, or a desire to develop expertise.
- Good at navigating credit and operational processes.
- A proactive, growth-focused mindset with a willingness to learn.
Full Time - 35 hours
About us
In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK’s original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey.
Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.
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We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.
We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.
Flexibility and why it matters
We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.
Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer
We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
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