{"id":9353,"date":"2022-03-01T13:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/?post_type=good-news&p=9353"},"modified":"2022-04-28T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:23:47","slug":"beverley-building-societys-new-appointment%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"good-news","link":"https:\/\/thebusinessculture.co.uk\/hey\/good-news\/beverley-building-societys-new-appointment%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverley Building Society\u2019s new appointment\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beverley Building Societ<\/a>y has appointed Simon Glass as its new Head of New Business Lending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past roles have seen Simon, who joined the Society on 4 January, working for packagers in a variety of roles and for major high street names including Santander as a branch-based mortgage advisor. Most recently, he supported the intermediary network as a Business Development Manager for TSB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also has more than 20 years\u2019 financial services experience \u2013 12 of those related specifically to mortgages \u2013 as well as having handled significant change and technology\/IT implementation projects for major high street names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His new role at the Beverley will see Simon forging close working relationships with brokers, both regionally and nationally, and acting on their feedback by working with the Society\u2019s senior management team on new product and policy ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Society\u2019s first-ever business development manager first and foremost, he will also contribute to product and policy development, and continuous improvement to the Society\u2019s lending processes and systems, helping to ensure that the Society can directly act on the feedback he receives from intermediaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was ready for a new challenge,\u201d said Simon, \u201cand my role at the Beverley will certainly give me that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m passionate about mortgages and one of the things I love most is building relationships with brokers and seeing them blossom from nothing into something mutually beneficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, being involved in policy and product development as well will enable me to offer a 360-degree service to brokers, by helping to find solutions to the things they are telling me, which I believe is so important. The synergy this new job offers between relationship-building and being able to influence the solutions we bring to market, to meet brokers\u2019 needs, was an opportunity I couldn\u2019t say no to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon\u2019s appointment is the latest step in the Beverley\u2019s ongoing mission to prioritise brokers and demonstrate its serious intentions when it comes to lending more and catering for underserved niches such as later-life lending, mortgages for unusual and semi-commercial\/mixed-use properties, and the self-employed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cThe Society is the right size to be nimble, and now with dedicated resource supporting the intermediary market we need to think outside the box and respond quickly to what intermediaries tell us they need, and new developments in the market generally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Society\u2019s Chief Executive, Karl Elliott, said of Simon\u2019s appointment: \u201cDealing with us is different in many ways, from our personal approach to manually underwriting every case, to offering direct access to our underwriters and our ability to think outside the box when it comes to lending decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSimon\u2019s appointment will enable us to offer an even better service to this hugely important audience, by providing our valued intermediaries with a go-to point of contact who can personally listen to their experiences and needs, and then act as a conduit between them and the Society\u2019s key decision-makers, to help us ensure we continuously adapt our offering to suit them and their clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will further strengthen our commitment to going out of our way to find ways to say \u2018yes\u2019, whenever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will Simon\u2019s first few weeks in his new position consist of? \u201cI\u2019m taking the time to get under the skin of the Beverley\u2019s current offering initially, and I\u2019m then hoping to meet with as many existing and new broker contacts as possible, and hold their feedback up as a mirror on what we do \u2013 to begin to identify potential opportunities and improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m conscious that perhaps Beverley Building Society isn\u2019t as well-known as it deserves to be, particularly outside its core East Yorkshire region. So, I\u2019m hoping to play a part in changing that and, by doing so, encouraging more brokers to give us a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d urge anyone to get in touch who thinks the Beverley\u2019s regional specialism and highly-personalised approach could benefit their clients, particularly those with more complex needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any brokers who would like to get in touch with Simon can do so via 07355 034054 or simon.glass@beverleybs.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTES FOR EDITORS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Tracy Fletcher, from the Society\u2019s communications team, via tracy.fletcher@beverleybs.co.uk<\/a> or 07983 633385.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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