"Expanding our management team continues our commitment to ensuring we provide all our self-employed brokers with the necessary support structure to make a real success of it."
- Carl Parker, national director at Just Mortgages
Prior to this appointment, Nigel Smith served as head of marketing at Towergate Insurance before working as a self-employed marketing consultant. He has also held positions at NFU Mutual as propositions performance manager as well as The Oval Group’s group marketing director. He brings over 17 years of experience to Just Mortgages.
In his new role, Smith will support self-employed brokers in the Midlands region with their day-to-day operations and future planning. He will also be responsible for coaching those making the move from employed to self-employed, expanding their skill sets and ultimately their own businesses.
This appointment expands the growing knowledge of self-employment to the management team at Just mortgages, which now stands at twenty-one members of staff. He will becomes the fourteenth area director, joining Stephen Swyny in the Midlands region.
Commenting on this appointment, Carl Parker, national director at Just Mortgages, has said:
“Expanding our management team continues our commitment to ensuring we provide all our self-employed brokers with the necessary support structure to make a real success of it. Having worked at Countrywide together, I know Nigel to be incredibly experienced and highly motivating. It’s great to see him join the team at Just Mortgages.
“We have made our ambitions clear that we want to grow the division to more than 1k advisers in the coming years. Expanding our management team, increasing our knowledge base and putting the necessary support structure in place is critical in achieving that. We’re fast approaching 500 self-employed brokers, which demonstrates the strength and success of our proposition.”
Nigel Smith, Midlands area director at Just Mortgages, added:
“I’m delighted to be joining the team at Just Mortgages and taking on this challenge in its impressive self-employed division. A big passion of mine is using my skills and experience to coach brokers and help them grow their day-to-day business. The role presents a fantastic opportunity to do this and to join an ambitious and exciting brokerage.
“When I was a broker, it was very hard to transition into a self-employed role. However, Just Mortgages really has managed to bridge that gap with the fantastic support they provide. That support begins when brokers get started and continues with help maximising their business and their own potential. This is very appealing to brokers and for me too when joining the firm.”
