James O’Reilly has been promoted to head of intermediary partnerships at Leeds Building Society, taking responsibility for the delivery of the corporate accounts and broker strategy for intermediary partners.

O’Reilly (pictured) joined the society in 2015 as a corporate account manager and was promoted to head of corporate accounts in 2018. His latest promotion will see him stepping up to manage the building society’s growing corporate account team and field-based business development function.

As part of his new role, he will be responsible for delivering the intermediary business plan.

Prior to joining the Society, O’Reilly held roles at Legal & General and Lloyds Banking Group.

He said: “Throughout my time at Leeds Building Society I have loved being able to work with teams towards our purpose of putting home ownership within reach of more people. I am excited to work collaboratively with our broker teams to continue to deliver the brilliant results we’ve seen over recent years.”

Martese Carton, director of mortgage distribution at Leeds Building Society, added: “It is a pleasure to be able to offer James this new role. During his time at the Society, James’ drive and enthusiasm has been infectious amongst the team, and he has delivered brilliant results for the business, our intermediary partners, and for the customer. James is a highly engaged and versatile leader and is well-deserving of this promotion.”