Partnerships Manager

Descripción del puesto

The company It's still difficult for business owners to sell their business, or buy others, in the sub-£10m enterprise value market. Information asymmetry, lack of knowledge and low transaction values make it hard, and most M&A firms shy away from the segment because they can't serve it profitably. A generation of owner-managers is approaching retirement, and most of them have no realistic route to a sale. manda exists to fix that. We match buyers with sellers in the part of the market everyone else ignores, and we finance acquisitions ourselves so buyers arrive pre-qualified and often pre-financed. We've sold the first businesses, funded the first acquisition loans, and we're now opening the platform up beyond the businesses that already bank with us. manda is part of iwoca, one of Europe's leading fintech lenders. Since 2012 iwoca has provided more than £4 billion in funding and its mission is to support one million SMEs in their defining moments. That backing is why we can serve this market where others can't: a deep footprint in the SME economy with 150,000+ UK customers, the data and infrastructure of an established lender, and the ability to build clean, automated processes instead of running an advisory firm on spreadsheets. We’re looking for a Partnership Manager - manda (iwoca's M&A Platform) We're looking for someone to build the introducer network that brings business owners to manda, iwoca's M&A platform. Accountants, solicitors, wealth managers and brokers meet an owner who is thinking about retiring long before we do. Your job is to make sure that when they do they think of us, and that referring us is the easiest thing they do that day. The role Your mission is to build a referral channel that produces a steady flow of business owners who are genuinely ready to sell. Today almost all of our sellers come from iwoca's own customer base, found by hand and worked one at a time. That works, but the pool is finite. The professionals who already