Job Description

The Role

As a key part of our scaling and growth, we have opened an exciting role within our Broker team for an enthusiastic, pro-active Broker Account Executive. If you love doing deals and the thrill of making a difference to the lives of small businesses and their owners, this is the role for you! Your focus will be account managing a set of LendingCrowd's broker partners who introduce us to SMEs seeking funding - you will be driving quality leads from partners and seeing these through from application to completion. We work as a team, so our commercial targets are at a team rather than individual level.

Responsibilities

Managing loan applications and enquiries from partners and other channels within SLAs

Building and maintaining relationships with a variety of broker partners and business owners

Maximising the pipeline of eligible applications passed to our Credit Team

Following up deal progress and getting deals over the line

Deliver against team targets for lending origination

Pitching LendingCrowd and its proposition to prospects, partners and customers

Working with the team to improve conversion rates across our partners

Ensure that brokers and other related partners are suitably trained on LendingCrowd's product and platform and comply with our guidelines

Liaising positively with the Credit Team to ensure the correct business information is presented with each loan application

Maintaining accurate, compliant, up-to-date information on our CRM system

Delivering performance metrics and review presentations/meetings with broker partners

Skills and Experience

You will have some experience of working in a sales function, ideally within a financial or other regulated organisation. In terms of skills and experience, we would expect you to display:

Excellent oral and written communication skills (phone, email, face to face) and a confidence to start conversations

The ability to be proactive and to build and maintain rapport with external and internal parties

Excellent account management experience

Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand and interpret data (e.g. conversion rates, forecasts etc)

A drive to achieve and exceed targets

High motivation, self-discipline and the ability to act in a professional manner

Good organisational and time management skills

Good business acumen and ideally relevant University education

Excellent attention to detail

An ability to work under pressure and deliver in a time sensitive manner

Experience working in a fast-paced environment

A great team working ethic

We have sponsored team members through Chartered Banker Institute qualifications to ensure that they build a career at LendingCrowd beyond the role.

LendingCrowd is a leading fintech business, shaping the way SMEs borrow money. Blending t technology innovation, financial expertise and solid backing, we have developed a scalable lending platform that provides an attractive alternative to the current limitations of business borrowing - we encourage people to think outside the bank!

Founded in 2014 and born out of Edinburgh's vibrant and growing fintech scene, LendingCrowd has driven over 450m in lending to small businesses across the UK. LendingCrowd is positioned to become the trusted choice for SME financing, with a culture of 'doing the right thing' at the core of our purpose.

We actively encourage the generation and development of ideas from all team members to grow the business. Our office is in Edinburgh city centre on George Street.

Come and join us and be part of our success story!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From 30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Casual dress Company events Company pension Enhanced maternity leave Enhanced paternity leave Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking Private medical insurance Referral programme Sick pay Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:

Edinburgh EH2 2JG: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:

sales: 1 year (required) Account management: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: EAF/450
Expected start date: 29/09/2025