Business Development Analyst

We are a financial services business focused on the retail savings, commercial lending and specialist residential mortgage  markets.  With over 1,000 reviews we are ranked third place within a group of banks, rated as 4.7 out of 5. This puts us in the category of being an excellent service provider.

• Competitive Salary
• Based in Cardiff City Centre operating in a Hybrid workspace.
• Permanent
• Full Time
• 26 days Holiday with the option to buy more.
• Subsidised Gym Membership.
• Private Medical & Health Insurance
• Extensive learning and development programme
• Generous, personalised benefits package
• Enhanced parental leave
• Company pension contribution up to 15%
• Flexible working options
• Opportunities to get involved in our charity and community work

The Hodge Foundation, a charity supporting the welfare, medical, academic, and educational areas own 79% of our business. This drives us, knowing that by helping our customers to achieve their goals, we are also helping good causes that are important to us.

We give back to our local and wider communities through various forms of fundraising and support, and we encourage our people to do the same. Our employees get to take four days off work to do something for good causes with our ‘Four to do More’ initiative.

These are some of the many charities, we are currently working with

We have achieved significant growth over the last few years and have ambitious plans to expand further.

We have an opportunity in our rapidly expanding Mortgages Division for an experienced analyst to monitor and strategically drive all aspects of business development across the wider team. The successful candidate will be joining the business The Hodge residential development  team, reporting to the Head of Business Development.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Extracting, interpreting, and analysing a variety of internal and external data sources to provide the Business Development function with insight and strategic direction to drive tactical mortgage growth.
• Providing robust data driven analysis and intelligence to help mould mortgage product development.
• Working with internal stakeholders across Product, Credit risk, Conduct risk and Senior Leadership to provide both internal and external market insight that supports a data driven approach to strategic thinking.
• Empowering Business Development Managers to work with greater levels of autonomy through consistent regional analytical support.
• Producing informative external MI packs to enable national and regional account managers to conduct impactful key account review meetings.
• Ownership of current and future development of our intermediary oversight process, collating monthly conduct data and managing the review of data with the business development team.
• Analysing the return on investment across campaigns and marketing initiatives undertaken by the Business Development function to ensure a commercial focus is always maintained
• Ensuring that Hodges approach to analysis is abreast of any new developments and techniques across the wider market.

Candidates must have:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Attention to detail with excellent literacy and good numerical skills.
• Able to follow procedures and work within regulated environment.
• Excellent Office 365 skills and a good understanding of computerised administration and workflow systems
• Sound knowledge of the mortgage and specifically the intermediary mortgage market

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge of using Mortgage Clarity data.
• Educated to Degree level

Interested?

Please send your CV and a one page covering letter, shortlisted candidates will then be invited to attend an interview.

Please send your application using the ‘Apply Now’ Button by 31st March 2022.

Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.

ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.