Internal Business Development Manager, Octopus Investments
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
+ Bonus
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Ethical Investments
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Ethical Investments
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus
3 days a week in office (Holborn, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Octopus Group is a B Corp whose mission is to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will help change the world.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll be able to demonstrate success in a KPI/targeted sales environment
- You have experience working at a lender, including bridging loans
- Exceptional phone manner and communication skills, always with a customer focus
- This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that
What the job involves
- This role will be a 12 month fixed term contract
- This is a versatile role, whether you are an experienced Internal Business Development Manager looking to develop your career, or new to property finance
- You will be provided with a high degree of autonomy, established funding lines, and an excellent financial reward (with discretionary quarterly and annual bonus payments)
- Supported with a bespoke training programme to give you all the tools required to succeed
- This role comes with excellent growth opportunities within a busy and exciting team
- The pathway and progression for this role could be into a client-facing position
- Initially, relationships are phone-based, and you'll support our External Business Development Managers
- You’ll be joining an experienced and well-established sales function of 9 people
- It is a fun, fast-paced and successful team that is part of a wider Residential Lending team, including Credit and Client Servicing functions
- Manage, build and nurture relationships with existing and new brokers alike, providing indicative terms over the phone/ via email, and follow-up on prospective deals to see them through to successful application
- Focus on developing long-term relationships with brokers that deliver repeat business, whilst providing an exceptional customer experience
- We’re always trying to work smarter. You’ll play a key role in implementing new sales and marketing campaigns. Whilst improving your effectiveness as an IBDM, which we will 100% support you with
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus is a group of companies investing in innovative ideas from various industries. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate, Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.
Across its financial services business, the company cares as much about the impact its investments have as it does about the returns it generates for its investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 18 countries.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
10 people
Jessica Bourdon-Pierre, Portfolio Manager
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Flexible working
"Your job and your life can be organised flexibly. I do school runs and finish early to get family time and catch up in evenings on missed time. "
Company benefits
- Critical Illness Cover & Death In Service
- Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus
- Share Incentive Plan
- Hybrid Working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
- Childcare Vouchers
- Sick pay
- 'Take what you need' Annual leave
- £3000 Bike to Work Scheme
- Employee Discount Portal
- Professional Development & Training
- Monthly 'Drink Up'
- The Greatest Christmas Party Ever
Company values
- Be Helpful: We like people who behave like it’s always day one and who remember that without our customers there is no business.
- Be Straightforward: We like people who have opinions and who express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand
- Be Bold: We like people who make decisions quickly and who are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Simon Rogerson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Octopus Investments for 20 years, first as Chief Executive and co-founder for 19 years and then as Executive Chairman for 1 year.
Chris Hulatt
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Manager at Mercury Asset Management for 2 years and Non Executive Director at ClearlySo for 4 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Investments
Riean Stewart (Portfolio Talent Associate)
- 50/50 gender split across all senior leadership roles (currently 43% female / 57% male)
- 15% of managerial roles and above will be held by people from an ethnic background (Currently 8%)
- We partner with Black Young Professionals network, Investment 2020, Work180, Women in Finance, 10,000 Black Interns and more to promote D&I at Octopus and in the Investments industry
- We host events aimed at women in the financial services industry and how we can attract & support people in this space
- We host internal D&I events on how to support ethnic backgrounds in the workplace, Neurodiversity and more!
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