Grow and manage a large Agri portfolio across Canterbury and West Coast

Senior Relationship Manager

Req ID: 122599 Department: Business Banking Christchurch & West Coast Division: New Zealand Location: Christchurch

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers. Our strategy is to help Kiwis start, buy and sustainably grow their business. As a Senior Relationship Manager - Agri, you'll play a key role in helping to support and enhance the financial wellbeing of our Agri clients across the Canterbury and West Coast area. You will form part of the Canterbury & West Coast Business & Agri senior leadership team and will work diligently to strengthen ANZ's market profile across the sector and manage complex credit deals and high-value Agri portfolios.

Role Location: Christchurch Role Type: Permanent, Fulltime

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Relationship Manager, you will:

  • Grow, develop and maintain a portfolio of larger-scale and more complex Agri clients, promoting sustainable long-term client relationships
  • Build and maintain a superior market presence, drive customer growth and be the face of ANZ to key Agri clients and partners across the region
  • Proactively seek to enhance relationship with networks and customers to foster collaboration, seek new business opportunities and strengthen ANZ's profile across the region
  • Role model good customer outcomes and make banking easier for customers by understanding their needs and developing insightful, tailored solutions
  • Provide ongoing leadership, coaching support, and development for Relationship staff across the wider Canterbury region

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

  • A successful track record in customer relationship and risk management, particularly in dealings with medium to large scale Agri businesses
  • Proven strong business development capability and experience with building broad community networks
  • An extensive network and key commercial connections across the region
  • Strong leadership capabilities, with experience in effective coaching, able to support others through change and adapt to new environments or ways of working
  • Sound communication skills that adapt style for audience and build proposals that meet customer needs, combining technical skills with confidence in discussions
  • Proven sound financial analysis and decision-making skills
  • Ability to be flexible and adaptive, working across multiple teams while supporting key portfolios

At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we'd love to hear from you.

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be part of a work whānau striving towards a common purpose: shaping a world where communities thrive. But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and community you need to take the next big step in your career. We're a diverse community at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand's communities and this is one of the reasons that has inspired us to develop a multi-year Te Ao Māori Strategy called Tākiri-Ā-Rangi. This includes increasing representation of Māori and Pasifika people at ANZ. Join us and get involved in one of our affinity networks which help us to better understand and meet the needs and interests of our increasingly diverse workforce.

We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with an access requirement or disability, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.co.nz/careers/.You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 122599.

Job Posting End Date Tuesday 22nd September, 11.59pm, (NZST)