Business Development Advisor - Intermediary Development - Part time

Our Mortgage Intermediary Development telephone team are looking for a chatty, engaging person to join one of their friendly telephone teams as a Business Development Advisor. We are recruiting for a part-time position (21 hours per week), with flexibility around working days and shift patterns.

In the role our customers are Mortgage Professionals, Brokers and Intermediaries and as a Business Development Advisor talking to them and being the voice of Coventry Building Society, is the main focus. It’s really about having great conversations (no scripts), being customer focused with a passion for providing exceptional service.

Dealing with a diverse range of people, this role is all about delivering exceptional service over the phone and through web chat, understanding their needs, dealing with queries, and helping them find a resolution are key parts of the role. With a strong focus on growing knowledge of a wide variety of mortgage policies, processes and products to deal with the various enquiries, provide guidance and support as well as making in the moment decisions.

Our Business Development Advisors also support brokers with Co-operative Bank lending policy and process enquiries, so the ability to learn and retain an array of information is essential.

We have a clear passion to deliver an exceptional telephone service and achieve quality goals and measures, but this isn't a sales based role!

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday a year (pro rata) plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
• Ability to buy and sell holiday allowance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Extensive wellbeing support
• ‘My Lifestyle’ retail discounts 

After training this role operates on a hybrid basis with at least 1 day in our Coventry office.

For this role you’ll like talking to lots of different people and will be used to working in fast paced environment. You'll need to be accurate and keen to learn so you're able to deal with our customer’s enquiries. Coping with pressures and problem solving will be a parts of the role so you’ll be a professional and committed person with a flexible, team focused approach.

To be successful in this role its essential you have:

• Are already in a customer service focused role, providing a great service in a busy environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to talk to lots of different people
• Have experience of handling challenging and / or complex customers’ enquiries.
• Have the ability to learn and retain knowledge across a range of policies and procedures

Desirable experience will include:

• Experience of working in a telephone environment
• Mortgage or a business to business experience

In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK’s original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey.

Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing. 

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.