Head of Lending

Location: melbourne
Job Type: permanent
Salary: $150000 - $200000 per annum
Contact: Emma Heffernan
About Our Client

Our client is a privately owned, investment & finance firm that focuses on ethical lending and smart investing. With a 100 year history supporting commercial businesses, property developers and high net worth individuals they provide bespoke loans that are packed with features.

They provide competitive lending rates, complex lending solutions, low set-up fees, tailored loans and process loan applications through multiple networks including finance brokers, intermediaries or directly from borrowers and provide tailored lending options and flexible features not available from most banks.

Due to some internal changes they now require a high performing Head of Lending that is well networked across the referrer space, including brokers, aggregators, financial planners and accountants and has leadership capability and/or experience.


About the Position

The Head of Lending will be responsible for delivering growth by nurturing and growing relationships with existing introducers whilst bringing new clients on board.

They will be a natural hunter, that will build out a growth strategy to ensure they are achieving set monthly and annual targets, attending industry specific networking events and consistently providing relevant and up to date information to key clients. They will also be responsible for driving deep relationships with their referral partners to drive continued business from them.

They will also be responsible for the leadership of 2 team members being a Business Development Manager and a Lending Executive so will have a level of maturity and natural leadership skills to work cohesively with these individuals to ensure they are also their professional goals and objectives.


About You

The individual will have a strong sales background that comes from a commercial lending background, they will be a sound negotiator that sells on value and can demonstrate how they have delivered growth from both their existing network (ideally broker and aggregator channels), however they will also have the experience looking at new and alternative ways to deliver growth.

The candidate will ideally come from a 'challenger' environment, for example a non-bank lender or tier 2 bank but will be a strong cultural addition to a small business environment.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as we strive to create an inclusive and diverse working environment. Click on the APPLY button or contact Emma Heffernan at Six Degrees Executive on 0483 946 292 for a confidential discussion.

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