Senior Lead Lending, Europe & Africa

You and your job

As a Senior Lead Lending EU&A within Corporate Banking Services, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our lending strategy and driving positive change. You will work in collaboration with the leadership team and our stakeholders across the organization helping to develop, embed and deploy our lending strategy.

You will promote a culture of continuous learning, cooperation, openness, and feedback within the organization. Additionally, you work towards establishing clear career and learning paths

You will maximize workforce talent and shape the future by informing, driving, and supporting organizational change and improvement

You will have excellent people leader, stakeholder management & communication skills & be comfortable communicating across all levels within the organization.

Get results

• Lead a high performing team, fostering a solution focused culture.
• Proactively create systems and routines to maximize & simplify our ways of working in a cross-location team.
• Lead through change, navigate the teams through a changing and dynamic environment. Act as an advocate for our lending teams fostering strong relationships with the Tribe and our stakeholders
• Champion Rabobank culture and values. Manage organizational and cultural transformation, aligning it with our vision, strategy, and objectives in Corporate Banking Services

Facts & Figures

• 36/40 Horus per week
• A financial service provider in 38 countries. 
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues around the world. 

Top 3 Responsibilities

• Produces realistic work plans which focus on the achievement of defined outcomes, goals, or performance targets fostering a culture of continuous learning;
• Responsible for team communication, ensuring that strategic deployments and relevant information is shared and understood by the team
• Openly shares knowledge. Advocate our leaders of tomorrow. Acts as a guide and role model.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So, we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at corporate banking services.

‘The best thing about leading a team in Corporate Banking Services is having the opportunity to position my team to stay ahead of the curve by streamlining processes, improving efficiency, and creating a culture of teamwork. Knowing that a well-functioning back office which optimizes technology, reduces delays and errors directly translates to our customer satisfaction makes me feel proud’ Paul van Oerle – Team lead Accounts & Payments

The Corporate Banking services teams are responsible for the for daily back-office management of both the agency services & loans portfolios. Tasks are centred around Loan, payments, fee & facility administration.

Working together is the way we work; as 1 achievement-oriented team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members, and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food.  In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work, and do business.

You and your talent

• Bachelor/master's degree in economics or finance;
• Knowledge of our Structured Lending products, food and agribusiness sector knowledge.
• Experience with monitoring activities associated with automated loan transaction solutions.
• Customer focused, service oriented, self-aware with the ability to work in an international, multi-cultural environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills – with an ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization, liaising with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written).
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to convert data to meaningful information.
• Continuous improvement mind-set demonstrated by, for example, Lean Yellow Belt certification
• Familiarity with ISO Quality Management System
• Resilient, ability to work in a challenging environment

This is what we offer you

• A salary in scale 10;
• a thirteenth month and holiday pay;
• An extra personal budget of 11% of your gross monthly salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out.

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a Senior Lead Lending, Europe & Africa based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

You and the job application process

Apply to this role via the ‘’Apply now’’ button before 28th of June 2024 . Responses will be handled in accordance with our vacancy management policy.

• Any questions about the job content? Contact: Niamh Monaghan, Head of Loans Operationsvia Niamh.Monaghan@rabobank.com.
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Charlotte Dullaert, Recruiter via Charlotte.Dullaert@rabobank.nl.
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