Uk Network Senior Manager

**Location**: North West **Contract**: Permanent **Hours**:Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri) **Salary**:Band 5/ £50,000 to £55,000 depending on experience plus £5000 car allowance **Benefits package**: - 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell holiday - 15% employer pension contribution, 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** We currently have an exciting opportunity to recruit for a Senior Manager to work within our UK Network Team. You will be based in the North West area and travel to engage with partners across the whole of the Region. It will also be important for you tokeep in touch with developments across the UK Network (UKN), The Regional Funding Team and British Business Bank (BBB) more generally, so regular visits to BBB main offices in Sheffield/London will also be required. You will act as BBB’s "In the Field" representative in the North West and be active in developing active relationships with a diverse network of key organisations involved in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a post-Covid-19 tradingenvironment. These organisations will be from across the public, private and third sectors and SME member organisation sectors. You will maintain regular and ongoing dialogue with these stakeholders to gather intel and ensure the BBB has an accurate and up to date understanding of the access to finance landscape in the Region. The role will also involve maintaining the BBB CRM system with details of North West stakeholders and intel from stakeholder meetings, so BBB develops rich and detailed knowledge on the SME access to finance eco-system in the Region. To be considered for this role you will ideally have an existing and active network within the SME support and/or economic development ecosystem in the North West. You must have knowledge and experience of the SME access to finance eco-system in the NorthWest (this could have been gained as an entrepreneur); You will also have experience of building successful long-term relationships across a diverse range of external partners and stakeholders and an empathy with SMEs and be passionate about working to support them. You will be open and possess a collaborative approach, willing to speak up on issues both internally and externally; and be comfortable operating with ambiguity in a changing environment. A broad knowledge and/or understanding of the economic and political profile, drivers and priorities of the North West, including the demographic profile of SMEs in the Region would also be highly desirable. **Please visit our careers site to view the full job description.** **ABOUT US** The British Business Bank is a unique and exciting institution. Its mission is to drive sustainable growth and prosperity across the UK, and to enable the transition to a net zero economy, by supporting access to finance for smaller businesses. Established in 2014, it is a 100% government-owned economic development bank but independently managed. To deliver its programmes, the Bank works through more than 200 delivery partners such as high street, digital, specialist and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds and fintech platforms. Currently, we employ around 460 people, split between offices in Sheffield and London.