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That means two things.\nGenerating new opportunities. You work hand in hand with Marketing, turning campaign themes, target segments and ideal customer profiles into live outreach: multi-touch sequences across email, phone and LinkedIn, follow-up on the demand our campaigns generate, and the account research that makes it land. The output is qualified meetings with the right people.\nQualifying inbound leads. You own inbound enquiries end to end: researching them, screening them, and routing them, within SLA, to the right Originator.\nWhat you’ll do\nOutbound\nRun marketing-led outbound campaigns. Take the segments, messaging and campaign themes Marketing develops and put them into market as multi-touch, multi-channel sequences, run at a consistent cadence.\n\nResearch accounts and personalise. Understand a business and its situation well enough to earn a first conversation.\n\nFeed back on what is working. You are closest to the response (which messages land, which segments go quiet, which objections keep recurring). Campaign design gets better because you tell Marketing what you are seeing.\n\nInbound\nWork the demand Marketing generates. Content downloads, webinar and event registrations, website enquiries. You pick these up quickly, research them properly, and convert those that meet our criteria.\n\nOwn the inbound queue. Qualify and route every inbound lead within SLA, with the research already done before it reaches an Originator.\n\nAcross both\nQualify with rigour. Screen against our policies and credit appetite. Saying “this is not a good fit, and here is why” is as valuable here as saying yes.\n\nNurture over time. Most businesses worth lending to are not ready today. Keep warm, useful relationships with prospects and referrers until they are.\n\nKeep the data clean. Accurate CRM records and weekly pipeline reporting. What you build gets reused in outreach across the bank.\n\nWork shoulder to shoulder with Originators. Take their feedback on lead quality seriously, and adjust how you work.\n\nWhat this role is not\nIt is not a closing role. You will not negotiate or sign facilities. You hand over to an Originator once a prospect is properly qualified.\n\nIt is not a volume-dialling role. Hard-selling outreach damages our standing within the market.\n\nIt is not a role that pays for activity. Booking a meeting is not the finish line.\n\nThe Profile\nYou are likely to be early in your career with some exposure to lending, credit or financial services. How you work matters more than the exact shape of your CV.\nYou will bring:\nEnough finance grounding to qualify a lead properly: you can hold a sensible conversation about how a business loan is structured and assessed, or you can learn that quickly and want to.\n\nExperience working to targets in an outbound role, and the resilience that takes. Outbound means hearing “no” far more often than yes, and we need you as sharp at the end of a campaign as at the start.\n\nCredibility with senior people. Originators need to take your leads seriously from early on, and prospects and advisers need to find you worth their time.\n\nReal organisational discipline. You keep records accurate and current without being chased.\n\nClear, concise written English. 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