Relationship Manager x1
PERMANENT
Application Deadline: Mon Jun 01 2026
Are you passionate about empowering clients to achieve their financial goals? We’re seeking a dynamic Relationship Manager to deliver personalized, value-driven solutions that make a real difference. In this role, you will be the trusted advisor for your portfolio, proactively identifying opportunities, resolving complex queries, and fostering long-term relationships. If you thrive on exceeding targets, driving business growth, and providing exceptional service in a collaborative environment, join us and take your career to the next level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing customers with essential information and advice, enabling them to achieve their business and personal objectives by offering time saving and value-added solutions and service.
- Proactively identify and respond to servicing opportunities for own portfolio of customers, seeking to exceed agreed minimum service standards.
- Successfully manage the resolution of all non-routine queries and complaints for own portfolio of customers.
- Liaise with the Credit department in relation to own customers lending applications, account monitoring and maintenance, and manage the delivery of the Credit departments lending decisions.
- Enable own customers to produce effective lending applications and seek to improve customer service standards.
- Establish and develop sales opportunities to meet customer needs, introducing and working with relevant specialists as required.
- Optimize portfolio potential by providing support to enable the customers meet their business and personal goals and objectives and introducing appropriate solutions and services to meet their needs.
- Responsible for meeting challenging sales and lead targets.
- Building a network of contacts, driving proactive business development within the wider community, and developing new business.
- Primary responsibility for the management of own portfolio of customers ensuring that they receive the appropriate level of service and advice to meet their specified needs.
- Promote alternative delivery channels, sign-posting and other internal products, and services.
- Ensure the branch working environment maintains appropriate standards of appearance and “customer experience”.
- Support other bank colleagues by building their knowledge and understanding of business customers, products, and services through the delivery of formal and ad-hoc training and coaching.
- Monitor, provide feedback and support the growth of leads supplied by other colleagues.
- Devise attraction and retention strategies surrounding target market.
- Build and maintain close links with other Relationship Managers and other sales staff.
Technical Skills & Competence:
- Communication and presentation skills
- Negotiation & Persuasion skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Financial analysis and advice
- Demonstrated experience in the use of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Hands on experience dealing with corporate clients.
- Strong stakeholder relationship management experience.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Sales/Marketing or related fields
- An MBA or a master’s degree will be an added advantage.
- A full Grade 12 certificate with credits or better in English and Mathematics.
- Must have a valid Driving License