The Role
Lead the Bank's place-based strategy in the East/West Midlands, drive investment and deal-making, build relationships with finance providers, influence local public-private structures, and lead a team to generate measurable commercial outcomes for high-potential businesses.
Summary Generated by Built In
Location: Remote (Based in East Midlands / West Midlands)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Competitive
THE ROLE
Step into a pivotal leadership role shaping the Bank’s place‑based activity in your area. This is your opportunity to drive meaningful commercial impact, strengthen the local finance ecosystem and unlock growth for high‑potential businesses.
As the senior representative for place‑based work in your region, you will define and deliver a tailored local strategy that aligns with the Bank’s wider objectives. You will draw on your commercial expertise, local market insight and the Bank’s full toolkit to catalyse investment activity and generate measurable outcomes.
Success in this role comes from building trusted, credible relationships with finance providers across the spectrum—BBB fund managers, banks, non‑banks and limited partners—using your technical understanding of equity and debt products to identify and shape opportunities. Your leadership will help create the right conditions for enhanced investment by working with both private and public partners to influence and deliver effective local structures and initiatives.
This position requires strong strategic capability, proven experience in dealmaking, and the confidence to operate as a key partner to senior stakeholders. It also calls for a leader who can guide a team directly while mobilising colleagues across the organisation behind a shared mission.
With your ability to drive commercial outcomes, influence systems and change, and strengthen local economies, this role offers the platform to make a tangible difference.
Please click on this Job Description to find out more details.
Step into a pivotal leadership role shaping the Bank’s place‑based activity in your area. This is your opportunity to drive meaningful commercial impact, strengthen the local finance ecosystem and unlock growth for high‑potential businesses.
As the senior representative for place‑based work in your region, you will define and deliver a tailored local strategy that aligns with the Bank’s wider objectives. You will draw on your commercial expertise, local market insight and the Bank’s full toolkit to catalyse investment activity and generate measurable outcomes.
Success in this role comes from building trusted, credible relationships with finance providers across the spectrum—BBB fund managers, banks, non‑banks and limited partners—using your technical understanding of equity and debt products to identify and shape opportunities. Your leadership will help create the right conditions for enhanced investment by working with both private and public partners to influence and deliver effective local structures and initiatives.
This position requires strong strategic capability, proven experience in dealmaking, and the confidence to operate as a key partner to senior stakeholders. It also calls for a leader who can guide a team directly while mobilising colleagues across the organisation behind a shared mission.
With your ability to drive commercial outcomes, influence systems and change, and strengthen local economies, this role offers the platform to make a tangible difference.
Please click on this Job Description to find out more details.
Key Benefits
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
About
The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy. Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively. With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals. As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified). At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in dealmaking and delivering commercial outcomes
- Strong strategic capability and experience defining/delivering local/regional strategies
- Technical understanding of equity and debt products
- Track record of building trusted relationships with banks, fund managers, non-banks and limited partners
- Experience leading teams and mobilising colleagues across an organisation
- Ability to operate as a senior partner to stakeholders and influence public/private partners
- Ability to commute to and work from the Bank's office in the region (hybrid working expected)
- Full-time availability to work 37.5 hours per week with flexible days/hours
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The Company
What We Do
The British Business Bank is the UK Government's economic development bank. Its mission is to drive sustainable economic growth by ensuring that smaller businesses across the UK can access the capital they need to start up and grow. It operates by designing, delivering, and managing a range of financial products through delivery partners, addressing market gaps in smaller business finance, and unlocking private capital to fuel innovation and economic prosperity.
