Senior Complaints Manager
Location: Sheffield / London / Hybrid Working
(Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Up to £62,000 (Sheffield) / Up to £67,500 (London) depending on experience
Benefits package:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time), opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution, discretionary bonus scheme
- Flexible working, cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, 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
As our Senior Complaints Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and leading our complaints function, ensuring customers receive fair, timely and effective outcomes while helping to drive continuous improvement across the organisation.
Reporting to the Customer Experience Director, you will take ownership of the end-to-end complaints framework, ensuring compliance with FCA regulations, including DISP requirements and Consumer Duty principles. You will use complaint insights to identify emerging risks, trends and opportunities for improvement, helping to influence positive change that enhances customer experience and business performance.
You will bring significant experience of managing complaints within an FCA-regulated financial services environment, together with a genuine commitment to delivering good customer outcomes. You will be comfortable interpreting complex regulatory requirements and translating complaint data into meaningful insight and practical recommendations.
A key part of the role involves preparing and presenting high-quality reports, management information and recommendations to Executive Committees, Board Committees and other senior stakeholders. You will be confident engaging with senior leaders, providing clear evidence-based insight and influencing decision-making through effective communication.
You will also lead and develop a talented team, creating an environment where colleagues feel supported, empowered and accountable. Working collaboratively across the business, you will ensure complaint learnings are embedded into processes, products and services to prevent recurring issues and improve outcomes for customers.
To be successful, you will have extensive experience in regulated complaints management, a proven track record of delivering customer-focused improvements and the ability to balance regulatory compliance with a fair and empathetic approach. Experience working with the Financial Ombudsman Service and producing governance reporting within a regulated financial services environment will be highly valued.
If you are passionate about putting customers at the centre of decision-making and using insight to drive meaningful change, we would welcome your application.
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy.
Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively.
With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals.
As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified).
At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds.
As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.
