About the Role
This is an individual contributor role for a 360 sales professional. You'll run the full sales cycle from outreach through to issued financial products (loans, cards and lines of credit). This is a fast-paced, phone-driven role built for high-performers who thrive on volume. You’ll turn outbound conversations into long-term funding partnerships and customers who keep coming back.
Responsibilities
- Engage, nurture, and close a high-volume (c.50 dials per day), high-quality pipeline of SME prospects, utilising data-driven lists provided directly to you
- Unlock revenue through outbound execution and consultative selling - with no cold business development required!
- Manage the entire commercial lifecycle end-to-end, independently understanding business goals and identifying financial solutions that set up our borrowers to win
- Establish instant rapport with your customers via telephone and email to cultivate successful relationships
- Be responsible for your own monthly target and continuously develop and improve your approach to help you get there
- Proactively problem-solve, identifying and confidently mitigating risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day, using a variety of tools, including Generative AI
- Mentor junior colleagues, contributing to lifting performance across the team and to championing our collaborative sales culture
Requirements
- Proven success in B2B sales, within commercial finance or SME lending
- Proven track record of hitting and exceeding sales targets
- Confident running the entire sales cycle independently, with equal capability in both prospecting and closing
- Highly organised approach to managing a busy, fast-paced pipeline, keeping deals at multiple stages accurate and moving forward
- Exceptional telephone skills: you build rapport quickly and simplify complex products for non-finance audiences
- Resilient, coachable, and motivated by earning potential
- Confident using approved Generative AI tools to enhance your output and find a better way of working
- Team players, who believe in standing together, and in balancing personal, team and company successes
- Keen to ‘live the adventure’, helping identify optimal engagement and sales strategies to unlock growth and help UK SMEs win
Skills
- Generative AI tools
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days in the office
Experience Level
- Individual contributor
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Benefit allowance tailored to individual life and family
- Private medical and dental
- Health assessments
- Access to a digital GP
- Life assurance
- Share schemes
- Financial coaching
- Dedicated annual learning allowance
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Award-winning parental leave policies
- Support for fertility treatments
- Support for new family additions
- Barista coffee
- Subsidised Just Eat lunches
About the Company
- We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else.
- Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win.
- We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks.
- At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company.
- It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.
- We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up.
- We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better.
- The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy.
- Come and join a mission that matters!
- We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong.
Equal Opportunity
- Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.
