Regional Senior Manager - North East

Regional Senior Manager – North East Location: Remote based in North East Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri) Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 per annum, depending on experience Benefits package:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• Performance related bonus
• Flexible working,
• Cycle to work scheme,
• Healthcare cash plan and life assurance
• Paid voluntary day, maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
• Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more

THE ROLE In this role, you will join the Bank’s new place?based (Local Growth) team, taking responsibility for shaping and directing place?based activity within the North East Region. Working locally and in close partnership with the North East Director, you will develop a tailored regional strategy and delivering meaningful outcomes by engaging with the local market investment teams, central resources, and drawing on your own personal commercial experience. This includes identifying, catalysing, and facilitating commercial opportunities focused on the region’s priority Industrial Strategy sectors, including connecting finance providers with clusters of high?potential businesses to drive measurable growth in local financing and business activity. A core element of the role is fostering a local finance ecosystem that enables innovative, high?potential businesses to access the right finance, regardless of location or stage of development. The position also leverages the Bank’s expertise in small business access to finance, alongside its extensive networks of finance providers and investors. You will need to establish credibility quickly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, from investment professionals to local leaders and politicians, in order to facilitate the development, negotiation and implementation of initiatives that drive change and growth within the region. You will bring commercial experience in accessing and/or delivering equity or debt finance, together, with a credible technical and strategic understanding of how investment decisions are made and how capital flows into local markets. This experience may have been gained within a finance provider, or as a founder or business operator. You will also have a proven ability to act as a strategic partner to external stakeholders, influencing decision?makers at both operational and strategic levels. Experience of working with, convening and developing investor networks would be a distinct advantage. Excellent analytical capability is essential, including confidence in working with quantitative and qualitative data to produce compelling, insightful materials that inform strategy, support stakeholder engagement, and contribute to the delivery of measurable and impactful outcomes. You will play a leading role in convening investors across the North East, strengthening connections between private capital, public finance institutions, innovation clusters and high-growth businesses, while helping to attract new sources of investment into the region. 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

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