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Do you want to become a Bank Manager? Here is some information to help point you in the right direction:

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• A bank manager in a local branch is responsible for setting and achieving targets, and motivating and leading the staff.
• Bank managers spend a lot of time working with customers, identifying their needs and aiming to meet or exceed them.
• Marketing and selling the bank's products and services, eg mortgages, loans, share dealing and will writing, is a major part of the job.

Normal opening hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, although smaller branches sometimes open fewer hours. Large branches usually open Saturday mornings.

Bank staff usually work in modern, open plan offices with interview rooms for meeting customers. Managers may spend about half their time out of the office.

Salaries range from £21,000 to £50,000, or more.

A bank manager should be:

• a good communicator
• able to negotiate, solve problems and make decisions
• able to build strong, long-term working relationships
• flexible and able to respond positively to change.

There are approximately 12,000 bank branches, and most branches have their own manager. One manager usually looks after several smaller branches. Other managers work in call centres, the Bank of England, investment banks and financial organisations.

People can work their way up from jobs such as customer service adviser or assistant manager. Banks also run management training schemes - some entrants have degrees in banking or finance, or two or more A levels/Advanced Highers.

Promotions from within a bank are performance related. Managers must be prepared to move to another branch, sometimes in a completely different area, to obtain promotion.

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