Join us as a Regional Accelerator Director
- Develop and deliver the regional strategy, leading a high-performing team to create value for customers, support local economies and drive commercial outcomes for the bank
- Build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders as you drive brand engagement and strengthen the bank's presence across the region
- You'll have the opportunity to develop and inspire a talented team, while raising your profile through high-impact work with customers, community leaders and senior stakeholders
- Travel will be required to Accelerator hubs across the North of England
In this important role, you’ll lead a Regional Accelerator Team to deliver compelling propositions for SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) customers, strengthen advocacy and build sustainable partnerships across the region. You'll oversee the delivery of regional activity across local hubs, digital channels and the wider frontline network, securing a coordinated and consistent approach that maximises customer and commercial value.
You’ll also lead your team to build meaningful relationships with customers, communities and key stakeholders that support retention, advocacy, referrals and growth. You’ll promote a positive culture that supports business owners, encourages collaboration and drives high performance across the region.
Your work will focus on:
- Supporting and delivering a high-quality regional strategy that strengthens our proposition and helps differentiate the bank in the SME market
- Building strong relationships across Regional Boards, internal teams and external partners to create value for customers, communities and the wider business
- Developing and coordinating customer-focused content and activity, working with regional teams and stakeholders to deliver positive outcomes
- Identifying and developing commercial opportunities, supporting customer acquisition, lending growth and broader business development
- Working with marketing, communications and business teams to promote regional success stories and support public affairs activity
- Supporting One Bank initiatives that enhance customer outcomes and create stronger connections across the organisation
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring strong knowledge of the SME market, together with the ability to support business start-up and growth. You’ll have experience leading and developing teams, along with a proven ability to build and maintain effective networks across internal and external stakeholder groups.
We’ll expect you to have:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility at all levels
- The ability to deliver engaging presentations for both internal and external audiences
- Experience working collaboratively across teams and stakeholder groups to achieve shared objectives
- Leadership experience
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
17/09/2026Ways of Working:Office FirstSkills Required
- Strong knowledge of the SME market
- Experience supporting business start-up and growth
- Experience leading and developing teams
- Ability to build and maintain internal and external stakeholder networks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence and build credibility at all levels
- Ability to deliver engaging internal and external presentations
- Experience collaborating across teams and stakeholder groups
- Leadership experience
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
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